By Eddie Muertos on February 6th, 2010 at 1:46 pm
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Amber Heard is in talks to star opposite Nicolas Cage in director Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry 3-D. The 23-year-old Texas stunner was last seen in Screen Gem’s The Stepfather remake and Columbia Pictures surprise monster hit Zombieland.
The Drive Angry 3-D synopsis reads:
The story centers on a man (Cage) driven by rage who is chasing the people who killed his daughter and kidnapped her baby. The vendetta/rescue spins out of control as the chase gets bloodier by the mile, leaving bodies strewn along the highway.
The film is written by Lussier and Toff Farmer, the team behind last year’s slasher hit My Bloody Valentine 3-D, and produced by Mike De Luca (Priest, GhostRider).
It’s a hard R. Car parts and body parts flying at you in 3-D. These are the writers and the same directors of My Bloody Valentine, so it’s designed to … we’re not the high minded 3D of James Cameron. We’re the low 5, very fun, in your face kind of exploitation 3D.
Wow, they had me at Amber Heard, but this could be everything Death Race promised to be, but wussed out on.
Drive Angry 3-D is set to shoot in Shreveport, Louisiana come March. The Summit Entertainment release is slated to be in theaters on Feb. 11, 2011.
Jessica Lowndes (Autopsy) and Julianna Guill (My Super Psycho Sweet 16) headline director Kaare Andrews’ in-flight frightener Altitude. Ryan Donowho, Landon Liboiron, and Jake Weary costar in the Darclight release.
(Click here to see Guill’s topless Friday the 13th sex scene)
The synopsis reads:
Lost in a mysterious cloudbank, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends must contend with a freak mechanical failure that first sends their small plane climbing to an impossible height, and then plummeting through endless mist.
After regaining control, the survivors are confronted with a horrifying realization – the very ground beneath them has vanished and a malevolent force lurking in the clouds wants them dead.
A promo trailer for the film was revealed at last year’s American Film Market.
Writer/director/carb-lover Kevin Smith is soliciting money from fans to fund his next box office failure. The man who once managed to give us one of the greatest comedies of all time—Clerks—by maxing out his own credit cards is currently setting up a website to accept donations for his pet horror project Red State.
We’re kind of creating this website. We’re seeing if it works to set up and collect donations. It becomes a weird tax nightmare, though…It sounded like such an easy thing online…but now there’s lots of checks and balances to make sure we can do it, but if that’s the case, I would be into it, and I’ll match it. Whatever you raise on line, like fuck it, you put it up, I’ll put it up.
We’re gonna make it. It’s gonna happen. By hook or by crook, with my pennies or the pennies of the audience. God bless them. Motherfuckers want to see the movie so badly that they’re willing to pay for it with their own money? Absolutely, put their name in the credits and that movie will be a reality.
OK, Smith, tell ya what. The way I see it, you owe me $40 for Zack & Miri, Jersey Girl, Dogma, and Mallrats. Keep it. Consider it my donation to Red State, you cheap rich bastard.
Hollywood may be rekindling their love affair with director Kathryn Bigelow now that her war-drama The Hurt Locker is a bona fide Best Picture contender at this year’s Oscars, but horror fans have always held a special place in their black little hearts for Bigelow ever since her 1987 hillbilly-bloodsucker classic Near Dark hit theaters.
Asswipe director James Cameron also had mad love for Bigelow back in the eighties (she’s his ex-wife) and cast her as the sexy leader of an all-girl bounty hunter gang in a god awful music video for shitty ’80s outfit Martini Ranch’s “Reach.” The video reunited Bigelow with her Near Dark actors Bill Paxton, Adrian Pasdar, and Lance Henrikson. And, yes, that is Judge Reinhold in the bar.
