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Concept Art From Xavier Gens’ ‘Vanikoro’!!
With The Horde working up some crazy buzz at this year’s Cannes, we got in touch with producer Xavier Gens, who directed the popular French slasher pic Frontier(s). While Xavier couldn’t really comment on Horde, he did have a very special treat for Bloody-Disgusting readers. Beyond the break you can take a look at the first ever concept art from Gens’ forthcoming Vanikoro, which has Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viggo Mortensen attached to star. Gens tells us shooting is to begin in New Zealand and Australia in 2010 as he is still working on the script that mixes the story of the Indianapolis S.S. with an island of hungry cannibals.
The French explorer La Perouse, was wrecked on Vanikoro in 1788. The ship Boussole was destroyed on a reef along with most of the crew. The second ship Astrolabe was also wrecked, but survivors salvaged enough to build a small ship and sailed away. Two survivors remained on the island into the early 1800’s.
Gens told us at the Toronto International Film Festival two years back that the crew will take on tiger sharks before landing on an island of cannibals.
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Keanu Reeves Describes Untitled Time Loop Thriller from Director Tim Miller as ‘Groundhog Day’ With Sharks
At one point known as Shiver, Tim Miller‘s (Deadpool, Terminator: Dark Fate) next movie doesn’t yet have a title, but star Keanu Reeves offers a very intriguing tease this week.
Chatting with Collider, Reeves explains what drew him to the mysterious upcoming project from director Tim Miller. He tells the outlet, “Sharks. Time machine. Groundhog Day.”
That lines up with early plot details that surfaced earlier this year, with the film said to center on a “smuggler in the middle of a deadly double-cross while on a job in the Caribbean Sea.”
That synopsis continued, “Surrounded by bodies, hostile mercenaries, and bloodthirsty sharks, the man finds himself in a time loop and scrambling to break the cycle.”
Callie Cooke (“The Stranger”), Stefan Kapičić (Deadpool), Steven Waddington (Sleepy Hollow), Nicholas Duvernay (“The White Lotus”), Abraham Popoola (Cruella), Anastasia Safonov, and Bobby Holland Hanton (Thor: Love and Thunder) also star.
Ian Shorr (Splinter, Infinite) penned the screenplay for the sci-fi thriller, which had previously been described as having shades of Edge of Tomorrow and The Shallows.
Stay tuned for more on the untitled Warner Bros. project.
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