July 26, 2007
Writer-director Adam Green is hard at work at this week's San Diego Comic Con promoting his upcoming horror film, Hatchet (review), which Anchor Bay will release in theaters on September 7. This morning we caught up with the new face of indie horror who talked to us about what you can expect from the film, how gory it is and whether or not we'll see a sequel. Read on for the skinny.
At this week's San Diego Comic Con Bloody-Disgusting caught up with writer-director Adam Green to talk a little bit about his first feature film, HATCHET, which begins it's theatrical run September 7. What can fans expect to see when the lights dim and the movie starts? "Fans can expect a return to the stuff we grew up on. In the 70's and 80's horror had villains, monsters, nudity, gore, and most of all FUN," Green tells B-D.
Speaking of gore, Green tells us that HATCHET is going to let the red flow," It's gory to the point of being over the top," he explains, "When limbs fly off- the blood shoots 20 feet in the air. Victor Crowley literally tears people to shreds with his bare hands in some scenes. There are deaths in this film that will have audiences cheering and applauding this is John Carl Buechler at his absolute finest hour."
HATCHET has already gained such massive popularity without even having been released, so much so that a sequel is already being planned, "The first film, being an independent movie, has already made money just off of the domestic and foreign acquisitions... so the people who made the first one are ready to start moving on a sequel." But in the end it all depends on the fans, "The storyline is set and ready to go... you guys just have to say when!"
GO SEE HATCHET IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 7 or else.
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July 27, 2007
This afternoon Adam Green's Hatchet (review) panel drew a whopping 2,000+ screaming fans gearing up for release on September 7. We caught up with the director who talked to us about what extra goodies we might see on DVD when Anchor Bay/Starz releases it sometime late this year/early next year. Read on for the skinny and watch for more soon.
With HATCHET finally making it?s way to theaters September 7, we wanted to start looking to the future the DVD release - Adam Green spills some details to B-D, "Holy sh-t, our DVD is gonna be so f-cking awesome when it comes out. We shot everything in the making of this film, and the same Producer who started putting the film together (Sarah Elbert) is the same person producing the DVD." Adam explains that keeping the family together is an important part of the film?s life, even on DVD, "With HATCHET, it's always been a very tight family-oriented ship... and that's why things have gone so well for us," he explains, "So rather than handing off the DVD duties to someone who wasn't really a part of it... our DVD is being handled with the up most personal care. You'll see everything from how we did the mock trailer, to how we got it made, to how we turned the desert into a swamp, to how we did the FX, to how we sold the movie... it's like a whole second movie's worth of sh-t!"
When a motley crew of tourists on a Haunted Swamp Tour wind up stranded, their night of comedic spooks quickly roller-coasters into a horrific nightmare as they struggle to escape the swamp alive...and with all of their pieces. A spectacular throwback to 80's horror and the film that's been bringing audiences to their feet at film festival's worldwide, HATCHET is filled with laughs, scares, and over-the-top death sequences you'll have to see to believe.
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March 29, 2010
Bloody-Disgusting's Chris Eggertsen got on the phone the other day to speak with writer/director/producer Adam Green about Hatchet 2, and in the process managed to extract a few nuggets of info not only on Green's plans for the series' third installment but on other projects he currently has in the works. Green also hinted at what special features we can expect to be included on the Frozen DVD/Blu-ray, including the *SPOILER WARNING* death scene that was left out of the theatrical release!
For you Hatchet fans waiting with bated breath for any news at all on the third installment, I managed to get some interesting info out of Green when I chatted at length with him on the phone yesterday. Green indicated he'd like to direct Hatchet 3, but that if Dark Sky continues with their aggressive push for a sooner-than-later third entry in the franchise it will simply be impossible for him to direct:
"The plan for `Hatchet 3' is that they're gonna make one," he said. "That's about all I know right now. It's way too early to say what my involvement is gonna be if any, but obviously I created it and came up with everything, and I would love to always stay a part of it and maybe I'll direct the third one. Looking at what I have coming kinda down the line right now I don't know when I would necessarily be available anytime soon, and I think that their plan is to try to make `Hatchet 3' next year."
Not only is he too busy to take on the job, Green also told me he would need a little more time away from the franchise before returning to it. "Kind of what worked out great about [`Hatchet 2'] was when I finished `Hatchet 1' we knew we were gonna make `Hatchet 2' but I just was not ready to do it yet," he told me. "I needed to go make other movies and get away from it for a little while so I could come back with the same passion I had the first time. And I think that worked out well. To do `Hatchet 3' right now, I'm not into it. I need to go do some other stuff. But if they wanna wait, then perhaps I'll be back at the helm but if not, whoever it is will be somebody that I pick personally, and I'll still always be involved with it."
As for doing a `Hatchet' movie in 3-D, Green affirmed there's already been talk: "I mean, that would be a ton of fun, and it is already being discussed. I mean, the one thing I don't like about...the 3-D thing is it's a fad, and we've seen this fad come and go before. It seems to be sticking a little bit more than it did in the `80s, and I gotta admit it is a good way to get people into the theater, because it's getting harder and harder to get people to actually go to the theater. So if you have a gimmick it seems to work. I mean, what would be more fun than seeing a girl's tits get chopped off and like fly at you...? So I think a `Hatchet' movie is right for 3-D, I think it makes sense, and I understand why they're talking about that. I know I'd like to see it, for sure, so hopefully it does end up happening."
As for plot specifics, Green was generally mum but suggested we can expect further installments after the third movie: "It is mapped out. [It's] actually even mapped out through [`Hatchet 4']. But it's all gonna kinda depend on what happens, because if I'm not gonna be the one directing it, there's also a chance I'm not the one writing it, which means what I'd have to do is kinda be open to all the writer/directors that are gonna come in and try to get the job, to kinda hear them out and hear some new ideas. Which I don't think is necessarily a bad thing. I mean, that might be what it needs at that point, is a completely new vision and direction on it."
Still, Green seems to be having a tough time with the idea of handing over his baby for someone else to coddle: "It's tough. It's a really tough thing because I wish I could do everything. Like I wanna go do these other movies, and I wanna do this, and I don't wanna let it go, I don't want somebody else to do it, I wanna do it. But I only have so much time, and I'm already spread more thin than humanly possible. So I don't know what's gonna happen with it. In a perfect situation I go do some of these bigger things and they wait and I can do `Hatchet 3' when I'm ready. But I don't see it playing out like that right now, with how excited they are to move on the third one."
On the Frozen front, Green told me what special features we can expect on the DVD, which is looking at a distant September release date: "There'll be some deleted scenes, there's going to be...the behind-the-scenes documentaries are amazing. Adam Barnick, who did the `Grace' behind-the-scenes, did the `Frozen' ones. What's really great about his approach is he doesn't do it like typical `B-T-S' footage where it's just people going through...'well, I'm this actor and I play this character.' It's done documentary-style."
Among those deleted scenes, you can expect to find one of Kevin Zegers' character biting the dust in spectacular fashion, whereas in the theatrical release you could only listen as he was eaten alive by wolves: "It's not in the movie because to me the movie's much scarier to have to watch his girlfriend and his best friend listening to it. That's how it was written. But while we were there we did actually shoot a horrifically gory death which won't be inserted back into the movie because it really has no place in the movie in my opinion, but it will be on the DVD for people to see what they couldn't see in the movie." Sweet.
Unfortunately Green wasn't able to spill much about other upcoming projects, except to say horror fans can expect another grisly horror flick in the vein of Hatchet from him in the VERY near future: "There is another horror thing that is actually starting up in a matter of days... that the fans can expect much sooner rather than later...It's gonna be very, very disgusting...there should be [an announcement] shortly. Again, it's one of those things where we're debating - we might finish it and then tell people about it. We don't know what we're gonna do yet with that one in particular. It sucks, I hate to be so cryptic, but there's so many people involved with that one too and I don't wanna speak out of line."
On the producing front, Green will be involved in a horror flick to be directed by Dance of the Dead helmer Gregg Bishop: "I'm developing a project with Gregg Bishop who did `Dance of the Dead', and Joe Ballarini who wrote `Dance of the Dead'. My company's developing a project with them that they would be writing and directing that we're not talking about yet."
All this news is sorta like a dinner at a five-star restaurant: it tastes damn good, but it's leaving me feeling half full. Let's hope we'll be getting more concrete details on all this stuff soon.
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The thing about working with actors like Kane Hodder, Robert Englund, Joshua Leonard, and Tony Todd is that…these are serious professionals at their craft. There’s no phoning it in and they have very intelligent and well thought out suggestions and opinions on what they do. For instance, Tony Todd literally makes love to every word that he speaks on film. He doesn’t just embrace the moment- he embraces every breath of his character. I am so amped up for what his part will be in the sequel if there gets to be one and if my story line continues as planned. Robert Englund was so wonderfully supportive of the film and I. There is a moment that was captured for the DVD where I have my first phone call with him after he had read the script. 30 minutes go by before I can get a word in edge wise. He was so excited from it that he literally went through and repeated his favorite lines and moments from the entire thing before I could even mutter a choked up “th-th-thank you, sir”. Joshua Leonard has become a friend of mine. It’s hilarious to me that he is one of the best character actors I’ve met, yet he’s best known for playing ‘himself’ in the Blair Witch Project. After seeing him in Billy Butler’s Madhouse, (a phenomenal movie for those who haven’t seen it yet) he was my only pick for the part of ‘Ainsely’. I didn’t even talk to anyone else.
