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‘Occupation: Rainfall’ Footage Invades Cannes; Ken Jeong Starring [Trailer]
Clay Epstein’s Film Mode Entertainment has shared with Bloody the first ever footage from the sci-fi action film Occupation: Rainfall, the sequel to the highly successful Occupation.
Currently in production, director Luke Sparke returns to take the sequel to the next level.
“This film will be exponentially larger in scale and ambition than the original,” said Sparke, who promises over 1,500 visual effects shots to entice fans across the globe.
In addition to Occupation’s gifted ensemble cast, Ken Jeong (The Hangover, Crazy Rich Asians) has come onboard to play a character who holds the key to the mystery of the rainfall.
Jeong and Daniel Gillies (“The Originals”, “Vampire Diaries”) join Temuera Morrison (Aquaman), Dan Ewing, Aaron Jeffery (Wolverine), Zac Garred, Charles Mesure and Trystan Go.
Occupation: Rainfall occurs two years into an intergalactic invasion of earth, while survivors fight back in a desperate ground war. As casualties mount by the day, the resistance and their unexpected allies uncover a plot that could see the war come to a decisive end. With the alien invaders hell-bent on making Earth their new home, the race is on to save mankind.
Here’s some early footage…
Clay Epstein of Film Mode Entertainment, who also sold the first film into the international market says: “We are extremely excited about the follow up to what has already proven to be a huge success all over the world. This is a testament not only to Luke’s talent as a filmmaker but also to audiences’ hunger for entertaining and well-produced films. With even bigger F/X and more at stake on the screen, Occupation: Rainfall is conquering the marketplace.”
Sales on Occupation: Rainfall thus far include Smile for Scandinavia, Paradise for CIS, Fox Network for Pan Asian Pay Television, Scene & Sound for South Korea, Eagle Films for Middle East, and Moviecloud for Taiwan.
Occupation was the Australian Screen Industry Network’s Best Feature Film winner, and Occupation: Rainfall promises even more visual effects and extraordinary postproduction than the first film. World-renowned VFX artists, whose credits include Godzilla, The Martian and “Game of Thrones”, are at the helm of the Sci-Fi action adventure sequel.
The film is produced by Carly & Carmel Imrie (Occupation) and American co-executive producer Todd Williams (The Nun) with Monster Pictures distributing across Australia and New Zealand.
“The project is massive both in storytelling terms and behind the scenes. We’re planting the flag squarely in a sci/fi adventure setting, an Australian Star Wars,” said Carly and Carmel Imrie.
Film Mode Entertainment is representing worldwide rights on Occupation: Rainfall excluding Australia and New Zealand.
If you want to watch a fun movie, watch a Ryuhei Kitamura movie. Whether it’s 2000’s Versus, 2004’s Godzilla: Final Wars, 2008’s The Midnight Meat Train or 2022’s underseen The Price We Pay, Kitamura always knows how to deliver a wild and crazy good time.
Up next from Ryuhei Kitamura? Deadline reports that he’ll be directing Thrill Ride, which sounds a bit like the best parts of Final Destination 3… expanded into a feature film!
Deadline details, “the English-language film will tell the story of a group of people, including two young women, who are trapped upside down on a roller coaster taken over by a mysterious saboteur threatening to drop them all one-by-one to their deaths.”
Film Bridge International is launching the project for sales ahead of the Cannes market.
Chad Law and Christopher Jolley wrote the screenplay.
“Thrill Ride is exactly the type of high-concept based thriller that our customers are looking for in the marketplace,” said Film Bridge’s Ellen Wander and Jordan Dykstra. “With Ryuhei at the helm, we know his vision and execution will deliver thrills of the highest quality.”
“As a hardcore rollercoaster fan since I was young, I immediately fell in love with this script filled with suspense, action, crazy ups and downs, turns, loops, and corkscrews at maximum speed,” adds Kitamura. “I can’t wait to get on a ride and bring life to the wildest rollercoaster imaginable.”
We’re already seated. Stay tuned for more on Thrill Ride as we learn it.
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