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Willem Dafoe is NOT in ‘Pacific Rim’
Willem Dafoe has said there’s no him in Pacific Rim. Bloody Disgusting’s Australian correspondent Maria Lewis (@moviemazz) spoke to Dafoe in Australia this afternoon where he’s promoting his new film The Hunter. Since July it’s been widely reported that Dafoe was ‘in talks’ to join Guillermo del Toro’s monster movie but the veteran character actor said it’s all “bad information.”
“If I am they haven’t told me,” he said. “Listen, I like Guillermo del Toro. ‘The Devil’s Backbone’ for me is almost the perfect movie, I adore that movie, he’s really good.
“I have met with him on occasions and we have talked about working together, but not on this.
“But if I’m in this movie they haven’t told me yet, which is my moment to say – in big letters – don’t believe what you read on the internet.”
Dafoe went on to say that although the internet is great for “some things“, it has led the Hollywood rumour-mill to get out of hand…
“There’s no sheriff in town, no one oversees this stuff,” he said. “In the time I’ve been making movies and dealing with journalists, also for theatre, the journalists…there’s a total break down in fact checking. They just don’t check anymore. Particularly with entertainment journalists, they try to scoop each other and sometimes they throw out a story on very little information. It’s just plain untrue.”
“Even on IMDB now with some things they write rumoured next to it in brackets. For that to even be acceptable is kind of wrong.”
Interesting, because that’s exactly the case with Dafoe’s name on Pacific Rim’s IMDB listing, bracketed rumoured and all. Consider this entertainment journalist checking herself before she wrecks herself Will.
‘Pacific Rim’ follows the story of an alien attack that threatens the Earth’s existence and the humans who are deployed in giant robots to fight off the extraterrestrial menace. “Sons Of Anarchy” star Charlie Hunnam has been cast in the film, along with “The Wire’s” Idris Elba, Day, Clifton Collins Jr and Rinko Kikuchi. Filming is set to start in Toronto in November.
The Hunter recently screened at the Toronto International Film Festival and Dafoe plays a biotech mercenary sent into the Tasmanian wilderness in Australia to try and find the last surviving Tasmanian Tiger, a species thought to be extinct. The moody thriller is directed by Daniel Nettheim and also stars Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor.
Daniel Roebuck has been cast as Santa Claus in Terrifier 3, Bloody Disgusting can exclusively report.
Writer-director Damien Leone is currently wrapping production on the highly-anticipated sequel, in which Art the Clown unleashes chaos on the unsuspecting residents of Miles County as they peacefully drift off to sleep on Christmas Eve.
“I’ve been holding this secret for a long time!” Roebuck tells Bloody Disgusting. “I’ve been really excited about it. I’m actually entering into the movies that I watch. It’s extraordinary. This is Terrifier bigger, badder, best.”
Roebuck appears in Terrifier 3 alongside returning cast members David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Elliot Fullam, and AEW superstar Chris Jericho.
No stranger to iconic horror properties, Roebuck has squared off against Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, played The Count in Zombie’s The Munsters, succumbed to The Tall Man’s sphere in Phantasm: Ravager, and investigated death in Final Destination.
A distinguished character actor with over 250 credits, Roebuck has also appeared in The Devil’s Rejects, 3 from Hell, Bubba Ho-Tep, John Dies at the End, The Fugitive, Lost, Agent Cody Banks, and The Man in the High Castle. Incidentally, he’s also playing Santa in the family drama Saint Nick of Bethlehem, due out later this year.
Terrifier 3 will be released in theaters nationwide later this year via Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting in conjunction with our partner on Terrifier 2, Iconic Events Releasing.
Terrifier 3 comes courtesy of Dark Age Cinema Productions. Phil Falcone Produces with Lisa Falcone acting as Executive Producer. Co-producers include Mike Leavy, Jason Leavy, George Steuber, and Steve Della Salla. Brad Miska, Brandon Hill, and Erick Opeka Executive Produce for Cineverse. Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor also Executive Produce.
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