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Comic-Con ’11: Francis Ford Coppola Plans 30-City Tour for 3-D Horror ‘Twixt’
Francis Ford Coppola hasn’t been to Comic-Con to promote one of his projects since Bram Stoker’s Dracula, in 1992. But the helmer took the stage in Hall H again, Saturday morning, to discuss his latest horror pic, Twixt, a self-produced pic that stars Val Kilmer, Ben Chaplin and Elle Fanning, and is a story based on a dream he once had.
In the horror flick, “A writer with a declining career arrives in a small town as part of his book tour and gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. He’s unsure of her connection to the murder in the town, but is grateful for the story being handed to him. Ultimately he is led to the truth of the story, surprised to find that the ending has more to do with his own life than he could ever have anticipated.”
See some choice quotes from Coppola inside, courtesy of Variety.“I don’t like watching 3D with glasses,” said Francis Ford Coppola during his presentation for horror pic “Twixt.” He admitted to watching “Avatar” much of the time without the 3D glasses, wanting to only put them on when he thought the scenes required to be seen that way.
“I was taken back when all studios said they would make all movies in 3D as if it’s the magic fix. No,” Coppola said. Instead, technology enables directors to experiment in other ways.
“Films are digital files and if the director wanted to he could change the experience to suit the audience,” including the music, which Coppola wants to do for a live audience when he travels the country in October. Coppola essentially wants to rollout the pic as a live concert-like tour in 30 cities, where he alters the music as the film plays on the fly.
In a “dress rehearsal,” Coppola used an iPad and computers to demonstrate performance for auds in the 6,000 seat room wearing Edgar Allen Poe masks with built-in 3D glasses. The author appears as a character in the pic, which does not yet have distribution.
“Imagine this for 30 nights,” joked the composer after a number of starts and stops.
When a fan asked if Coppola could promise no one would remake “The Godfather,” “I was 29 when I made ‘The Godfather’ and have no legal control over it.”
“When they remake old films it’s a pity because that money could go into making new films with new stories,” Coppola said.
NEON has been absolutely slaying the marketing game for their horror output this year, and they’re kicking the Longlegs campaign into high gear with one more month until release.
A cryptic ad in The Seattle Times today (seen below) has led clever horror fans to discover TheBirthdayMurders.net, the brand new official viral marketing website for Longlegs.
The in-universe website details the victims of the serial killer known as Longlegs (Nicolas Cage), described as a “Satan-worshipping psycho” who has terrorized families throughout the Pacific Northwest for nearly three decades.
The website details, “A bloody trail of bodies here in the great state of Oregon attests to the depraved savagery of this one-of-a-kind serial killer. With over three dozen victims that we know of, LONGLEGS is one of the most prolific mass murderers ever to have graced the region, and his gruesome endeavors are the stuff of nightmares. At first, all of the killings appeared to be straightforward murder-suicides: the handiwork of average men who suddenly snapped and slaughtered their wives and children. But a series of eerie coded messages left at the crime scenes indicate that someone – or something – is influencing these horrific crimes. The cryptic letters are signed by someone calling himself LONGLEGS.”
“With thirty-eight kills to his name, LONGLEGS has torn apart the lives of eleven different families throughout the Beaver State. His victims were good people: honest fathers, decent mothers, innocent little children.”
The website is loaded with secrets, clues, and gruesome (faux) crime scene photos, and you might even find a mention of yours truly nestled in there. Poke around. Stay a while.
Longlegs arrives in theaters July 12.
The upcoming serial killer horror movie marks the return of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, Gretel & Hansel). Nicolas Cage stars alongside Maika Monroe, with Monroe playing an FBI agent and Cage playing a serial killer.
In the film, “FBI Agent Lee Harker (Monroe) is a gifted new recruit assigned to the unsolved case of an elusive serial killer (Cage). As the case takes complex turns, unearthing evidence of the occult, Harker discovers a personal connection to the merciless killer and must race against time to stop him before he claims the lives of another innocent family.
The film is rated “R” for “Bloody violence, disturbing images and some language.”
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