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Ryan Kwanten Gives Updates On ‘Knights of Badassdom’ and “True Blood” Season 5!
Last week while Bloody Disgusting was on the Los Angeles set of Takashi Shimizu’s new film, 7500, we had a chance to sit down with Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”, Red Hill) and talk about his current projects. While I can’t say too much about 7500 right now, Kwanten was able to give us a few (mostly speculative) updates on the 5th Season of “True Blood” as well as Joe Lynch’s The Knights Of Badassdom.
I asked Kwanten if he could comment on rumors that “True Blood” Season 5 would content that might upset the conservative religious right far more than prior seasons, “Uh, no I can’t really [comment] on that.”
Have they started breaking stories? “They have. We start shooting [the new season] at the end of the month. They’ve been kind enough [on 7500] to schedule my stuff up front to accommodate“.
On how his character in Knights Of Badassdom differs from Jason Stackhouse. “I get the feeling Jason’s [humor] is more situational. He’s not, I don’t play him with the intention of hoping people laugh at it. I play the situation for real and it’s the situation that’s funny. With ‘Knights Of Badassdom’ it’s playing the straight guy. And I’m surrounding myself with great character actors like Steve Zahn and Peter Dinklage who very much add that nice comedic flavor to it. That was a nice challenge for me to sort of drop all sense of pretense and trust the people around me. It’s more of a character driven piece for me, it’s nice. I’m really looking forward to it, I’m not sure win they’re going to release it. I’d assume midway though next year.”
7500 lands in theaters on August 31, 2012. Expect more updates, and our full set report, as that date approaches.
Fangoria Studios and Panick Studios are turning horror comic Black Diamond into a film, and Variety reports that Ernest Dickerson (Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight) will direct.
Black Diamond comic book creator Brendan Columbus will write the screenplay.
Black Diamond follows Owen and Victoria Welch on a family ski trip that spirals into a nightmare. When their son is abducted by a mysterious cult, the couple is pushed to the brink and faced with a soul-crushing ultimatum: sacrifice another child or lose their own forever.
The comic book series from Panick Entertainment is described as a “chilling folk horror thriller blending Hitchcockian psychological tension with the dread of The Wicker Man.”
“Black Diamond was my attempt to put everything I love about thrillers on the page,” Columbus tells Variety. “I want to make sure it feels like you physically can’t leave the theater or else you’ll miss the next twist or turn. With his masterful cinematic eye and his great story sense, Ernest is going to scare the hell out of everyone with this one.”
“Black Diamond immediately grabbed me because its horror is rooted in impossible human choices,” says Dickerson. “It taps into parental fear, morality, isolation, and survival in a way that is so unsettling and emotionally real. That combination will make for a very suspenseful and exciting cinematic experience.”
Ernest Dickerson is directing and executive producing the feature film. Black Diamond will notably be Ernest Dickerson’s first feature film as director since Double Play in 2017, though he has in more recent years been directing for an impressive string of television shows including “The Man in the High Castle,” “The Purge,” “Raised by Wolves,” “Bosch,” and “DMZ.”
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