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First Look at Russian Serial Killer Thriller ‘The Execution’
Paris-based Pulsar Content is launching sales on Russian-language serial killer crime thriller The Execution at TIFF, reports Screen Daily.
The thriller is inspired by the case of an infamous Soviet-era serial killer who eluded police for a decade.
The thriller marks the debut feature of award-winning Russian music video and commercials director Lado Kvataniya, who was feted in the Young Director Awards at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in 2016.
The cast features a host of buzzy local talent including Yulia Snigir (The New Pope, Die Hard), Niko Tavadze (The Parts), Daniil Spivakovsky (Midsummer Madness), Evgeniy Tkachuk (Zimniy), Aglaya Tarasova (Lyod) and Victoria Tolstoganova.
It started shooting in Russia on September 9.
It is the latest production from Moscow-based company Hype Film, the producer of Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto and upcoming Petrov’s Flu as well as titles such as Persian Lessons and Sputnik.
XYZ Films is on board to handle North American sales.
Fresh off his brief appearance as Longlegs in Scary Movie, Deadline reports that Chris Elliott will star alongside Michael Ian Black in Sasquatch creature comedy Bad Day for Bigfoot.
Sara Tomko (Resident Alien), Oliver Cooper (Project X) and James Duval (Donnie Darko) also star in the film from filmmakers Zach Green and Devin O’Rourke (Foil).
Deadline details in today’s exclusive report, “The film follows a Bigfoot hoax that goes horribly wrong in the middle of an actual Sasquatch hot spot, leading to a chaotic struggle between the hoaxers, investigators, and a supernatural force that defies explanation.”
“I have always been drawn to cryptids and monster lore, and the over-the-top sincerity of 80s and 90s protagonists,” director Zach Green said in a statement. “Bad Day for Bigfoot is a love letter to those creature-filled adventure comedies. I couldn’t be more proud of the cast and crew we’ve assembled, and for the support and enthusiasm from the people of La Grande [Oregon]. It was their gumption that proved to us that making this thing was very possible, and that what’s lurking in those woods may be very real indeed.”
The cast also includes Ashley Rae Spillers, Brian McGuire and Kyle D. King.
Stay tuned for more on Bad Day for Bigfoot as we learn it.
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