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Friday the 13th Helmer to Captain ‘The Last Voyage of Demeter’
It’s happening, it’s finally happening! A captain has finally be found to take the heed of The Last Voyage of Demeter for Phoenix Pictures. Originally set to be helmed by Patrick Tatopoulos, we’ve been following this project since we saw a bunch of casting shots on the set of Underworld: Evolution back in 2005! As the movie never came into fruition, maybe the director of Friday the 13th will have better luck? Transylvania awaits!
Director Marcus Nispel (“Friday the 13th”) is in talks to board “The Last Voyage of Demeter” for Phoenix Pictures with Mike Medavoy, Arnie Messer and Brad Fischer producing.
The story, penned by Bragi Schut Jr., is based on a chapter in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” describing the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel. Stoker tells the story via the captain’s log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear.
Chris Bender and JC Spink are exec producing. Robert Schwentke and Patrick Tatopoulos had previously been attached to direct.
Fischer told Daily Variety he’s aiming to begin production this year.
Phoenix is in post-production on the Martin Scorsese-directed Leonardo DiCaprio starrer “Shutter Island” for Paramount and “Shanghai” for the Weinstein Co. The banner recently announced it’s teamed with Robert Chartoff and helmer Roger Donaldson for a feature adaptation of Seymour Reit book “The Day They Stole the Mona Lisa.”
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‘Backrooms’ – Behind the Scenes Photos Reveal the ‘Alien Romulus’ Actor Who Played Pirate Clark
Dubbed “Pirate Clark,” the monstrous threat in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms is sure to be one of the most memorable new movie monsters on screen this year, perhaps only behind Freaky Nikki from Obsession. But was that a computer generated creation? An animatronic?
Nope. Pirate Clark, which is of course the monstrous Backrooms-generated “Still Life” version of Chiwetel Ejiofor’s character Clark, was played by a real actor in Backrooms!
It was former basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi who played the impossibly tall Pirate Clark in Backrooms, and the effect was pulled off with little more than a costume and a mask.
As Luiz H.C. noted in an article here on Bloody Disgusting last month, “Though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Robert Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.”
The Romanian–Hungarian actor stands a towering 7-foot, 7″ tall, and if Pirate Clark reminded you of the Offspring from Alien Romulus, that’s because Bobroczkyi played both roles!
At this time, Alien Romulus and Backrooms are the only two movies on Bobroczkyi’s resume, but like Javier Botet before him, we can be pretty sure he’ll be playing unique horror movie characters for many years to come. You just never know where he might pop up next…
Backrooms is now available on a Digital with the Blu-ray up for pre-order now.
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