[Exclusive] Robert Kurtzman Shares Original Concept Art for ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’ Creatures
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Article updated May 29, 2018: Few artistic collaborations are truly collaborative to the extent that From Dusk Till Dawn was, with the 1996 film quite literally coming to the screen as a Quentin Tarantino movie mashed together with a Robert Rodriguez movie. Tarantino wrote the script with Rodriguez directing, and the film was nothing if not a true hybrid of their individual work.
But From Dusk Till Dawn all began with one man: Robert Kurtzman.
Kurtzman (who now owns MUFX) conceived the concept and hired Tarantino to write the script. On the effects front, Kurtzman and the rest of the effects team sure as hell had their hands full, tasked with designing all sorts of vampire creatures and executing wild gore gags.
Hanlin’s Hollywood Memorabilia will be auctioning off many items from Kurtzman’s personal collection next month, and included will be several relics from the production of From Dusk Till Dawn. Ahead of the auction’s catalog being made public this coming Monday, we’ve got our hands on several pieces of Kurtzman’s creature concept art, some of it depicting blood-sucking creatures that never actually ended up making it into the film – at least not as originally designed.
Kurtzman explained to us, “The biggest [creature] left out was my pencil sketch I did of the subterranean rat/bat creature which was in the original drafts of the story and script. Later, that design was used as the creature that Tom Savini turned into.”
Also going up for auction is a mold of Quentin Tarantino’s skull, which was created for the scene where his character is staked in the heart; only 3 replicas of the skull were made, one for each member of the company, with the original skull thought to be destroyed.
“After [Quentin] was cast for the makeup, we then sculpted the skull to scale and to accentuate his big chin,” Kurtzman recalls.
Check out the concept art and Tarantino’s skull below!
Hanlin’s Hollywood Memorabilia is proud to present the creatures of Robert Kurtzman at an auction taking place June 2, 2018 at 11am.
The full catalog for the auction will be available this coming Monday.
A hospital stay grows more nerve-frazzling when memory loss distorts reality in our exclusive clip from This Tempting Madness, inspired by a true story.
The mind-bending psychological thriller will be released in select theaters and on demand on June 12 via Vertical.
Simone Ashley (“Bridgerton”) stars as Mia, who awakens from a coma, grievously injured, her memory fractured. As she puts the pieces of her past together, she starts to question her own actions and her perception of reality.
In This Tempting Madness, “Mia awakens from a coma grievously injured, her memory fractured. As she puts the pieces of her past together, she starts to question her own actions, and her perception of reality.”
Jennifer E. Montgomery makes her feature directorial debut from a script she co-wrote with director of photography Andrew Davis, inspired by Montgomery’s first-hand experience with tragedy involving her best friend.
“Months before the incident, there were signals that her world was unraveling,” says Montgomery. “I could feel the pressure building, though I didn’t know what form it would take. I never could have known what violence would come, and I certainly never imagined making a film about it.”
Austin Stowell (“NCIS: Origins”), Suraj Sharma (Happy Death Day 2U), Mojean Aria (Reminiscence), Amol Shah (“For All Mankind”), and Zenobia Shroff (“Ms. Marvel”) round out the cast.
Smoke Jumper Films and Mango Monster Productions produce in association with Catchlight Studios (Heretic, The Blackening).
This Tempting Madness is rated R for “language, violence/bloody images, and brief sexuality.”
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