Hey everyone,
Just a quick update to let everyone know that post-production is progressing at a modest if not scintillating pace as we try to get to grips with the small amount of time we are able to grab with the great technicians at Technicolour courtesy of their enormous goodwill and patience.
We are currently compiling a very beautiful looking first assembly, negotiating with a top level composer and sound mix supervisor, and testing the waters of what is and what is not possible with a very well known VFX house. All things being equal we will be ready for our cast and crew screening by the end of June this year and submitting to The Venice International Film Festival for August/September.
It's all very much in our hands at this time but we are not going to rush this project out into the world just to make deadline on a film festival. That really would be counter-productive. Needless to say the entire remaining crew are working very hard to bring you all the very best product we can.
Thank you for staying with us.............
Best,
Nick
Synopsis:
Carl Foster is a man committed to his work but a man who also knows he should give more time to his family. Taking a much needed break from the pressures of his professional life he embarks on a weekend vacation with his wife, daughter, and young son. But what begins as a pleasant, if somewhat conversationally strained journey, ends in a flurry of violent abuse, and spine-tingling terror as Carl, inadvisedly confronting a group of Carnival - type travellers, watches in desperation as the ones he loves are brutalised and humiliated in the dank, and grimy confines of an abandioned roadside diner. Will he be able to find a way for them all to escape, or are they destined to disappear without trace? Is everything quite as it seems or is the line between reality and fantasy blurred even for those who watch? Is Carl really the epitome of 'family man' that we have come to think of him as? Or is he something all-together more insipid and sinister? Whichever and whatever he is only time and the passage of cruel and tormented event will reveal. But rest assured -life, and death, is never as clearcut as they might seem to be.
Cast:
Subject to contract terms and availability:
Carl Foster - Wil Johnson
Maddie Foster - Angela Dixon
Chloe Foster - Frances Speedie
Lucas Foster - Callum Anderson
Dog - Jamie Foreman
Diggs - Jon Campling
Bones - Jill Greenacre
Mamon - Lucy Drive
Herschel - James Fisher
Old Timer - Eryl Lloyd Perry
Carl Foster - Wil Johnson
Maddie Foster - Angela Dixon
Chloe Foster - Frances Speedie
Lucas Foster - Callum Anderson
Dog - Jamie Foreman
Diggs - Jon Campling
Bones - Jill Greenacre
Mamon - Lucy Drive
Herschel - James Fisher
Old Timer - Eryl Lloyd Perry
Attached Crew:
- Written & Directed by Nicholas David Lean
- Produced by Nicholas David Lean, Gabrielle Lederman, Mark Booth
- Executive Production by Gabrielle Lederman, Mark Booth
- Cinematography by Steven Priovolos
- Concept Designs by Steve Simmons
- Special Effects by Mike Peel
- Production Design by Claudia Brewster
About the Writer.....
A screenwiter learning and honing craft over 10 years and now just beginning to see the fruits of labour. Moving into producing and directing, but always seeking new, commercially driven concepts that entertain worldwide audiences with themes and characters that resonate with reality and credibility.
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Sunday, 14 February 2010
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