Cast: |
Gerard Butler ... Kable/John Tillman
Michael C. Hall ... Ken Castle
Kyra Sedgwick ...
Logan Lerman ... Simon
Brighid Fleming ... Delia
Alison Lohman ...
Amber Valletta ...
John Leguizamo ...
Johnny Whitworth ...
Zoe Bell ...
Chris "Ludacris" Bridges ...
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Description: |
In the not too distant future, Kable (Gerard Butler), a death row inmate, has unwittingly become a pop culture hero. Every week, millions worldwide tune in online to watch him and hundreds of other convicts battle in Slayers, an ultra-violent multi-player online game invented by technological genius Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). To the wealthy young gamer who controls his every move, Kable is just a sim (simulation) character. To the resistance group that opposes Castle’s games as high-tech slavery, he is a critical element in their battle to take down the inventor. Caught in the crosshairs of two opposing forces and under the command of a teenager’s remote device, Kable must use his extraordinary fighting skills to escape the game, bring down Castle and overthrow the system. br>
More on the film, as told to TunaFLIX by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor:
BT:"It’s a science-fiction movie set in the near-future. [to Mark] How much of the story can we tell?
MN: Well, it’s a guy who needs to get back to his wife and his daughter, and he needs to fight the system. It’s a movie about control, about how we’re controlled, and more and more every day. I mean, this is happening. We really tend to do a lot of research, and have a lot of truth involved in our scripts.
And this is another situation where we studied and… we’re reading about nanotechnology and we’re learning that we’ll soon all have IPs, just like computers. This is true, this is happening. The cameras are out, Big Brother is getting bigger. And we were… a little scared about where this is going, and just wanted to make an ass-kicking film [about it].
BT: Yeah, I mean, our personal space is getting more and more violated. We’re becoming more quantified, we’re becoming more controlled, more processed. And so, like in the classic tradition of ‘70s sci-fi, it’s all about an individual breaking through that. Usually with guns and ammo [laughs]."
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Production Notes: |
This film is in post production. It was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico from November 2007 - February 2008.
The title of the film is a "working title" and may be retitled for release.
Rumors about a release date in 2008 are not true according to directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. Asked about this at Comic Con, they said they didn't know where that information came from, but a SUMMER 2009 release was in the works.
Interesting Trivia: Mark Neveldine played a cameraman in Ariel Vromen's short film, Jewel of the Sahara, in which Gerard had the starring role. |
