“Boardwalk Empire’s” Jack Huston will star in a new action/thriller series inspired by “The Count of Monte Cristo,” Alexandre Dumas’ timeless novel. It is being developed by Constantin Film and will be directed by Stephen Hung (“Into the Badlands”).
Huston will play a broken man who, upon escaping his imprisonment, sets out to find justice in an increasingly corrupt world.
The series will be set in Asia and the US. As well as appearing on screen, Huston will write and executive produce the show, alongside his partners Ian Duncan and Simon Boyes.
“It has long been a dream of ours to take what we consider to be one of the great works of literature and present it to a modern audience in a unique and compelling way,” said Huston, Duncan and Boyes. “We couldn’t be more excited to have partnered with Constantin, Stephen, and Tea Shop to...
Huston will play a broken man who, upon escaping his imprisonment, sets out to find justice in an increasingly corrupt world.
The series will be set in Asia and the US. As well as appearing on screen, Huston will write and executive produce the show, alongside his partners Ian Duncan and Simon Boyes.
“It has long been a dream of ours to take what we consider to be one of the great works of literature and present it to a modern audience in a unique and compelling way,” said Huston, Duncan and Boyes. “We couldn’t be more excited to have partnered with Constantin, Stephen, and Tea Shop to...
- 6/22/2021
- by K.J. Yossman
- Variety Film + TV
Jack Huston is leading the latest take on The Count of Monte Cristo.
The Fargo star, who recently wrapped production on House of Gucci and is set as the male lead in Amazon drama series Expats, is to star in and write the package, which is now being taken out to buyers by Shadowhunters producer Constantin Film.
The project, which has been in development for a while, will see Huston play Nicolas Cristo, a man broken, betrayed and locked away for over a decade, fighting to bring justice to a world even more cruel and corrupt than the one that was taken from him.
The twist for the latest adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel? It will be set in Asia and the U.S.
Into The Badlands and Wu Assassins director Stephen Fung is on board to direct and exec produce. Huston will also exec produce along with...
The Fargo star, who recently wrapped production on House of Gucci and is set as the male lead in Amazon drama series Expats, is to star in and write the package, which is now being taken out to buyers by Shadowhunters producer Constantin Film.
The project, which has been in development for a while, will see Huston play Nicolas Cristo, a man broken, betrayed and locked away for over a decade, fighting to bring justice to a world even more cruel and corrupt than the one that was taken from him.
The twist for the latest adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel? It will be set in Asia and the U.S.
Into The Badlands and Wu Assassins director Stephen Fung is on board to direct and exec produce. Huston will also exec produce along with...
- 6/21/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Beverly Hills-based production and finance company Enderby Entertainment is expanding into Canada with the launch of a film and television production office.
Enderby Entertainment CEO Rick Dugdale said on Wednesday (November 4) that screenwriter Todd Ireland will serve as executive vice-president for Enderby Entertainment Canada, based in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Dugdale also announced the new division has acquired effects house Chariotdrive, which is in the process of relocating operations to British Columbia and will be run under the auspices of Enderby Entertainment Canada.
“We’ve fortunately been able to see the growth of the Okanagan region and all the work Jon Summerland...
Enderby Entertainment CEO Rick Dugdale said on Wednesday (November 4) that screenwriter Todd Ireland will serve as executive vice-president for Enderby Entertainment Canada, based in Kelowna, British Columbia.
Dugdale also announced the new division has acquired effects house Chariotdrive, which is in the process of relocating operations to British Columbia and will be run under the auspices of Enderby Entertainment Canada.
“We’ve fortunately been able to see the growth of the Okanagan region and all the work Jon Summerland...
- 11/4/2020
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
It was a dark and stormy night at Greendale Community College when "Community" was terrorized by the A**-Crack Bandit in "Basic Intergluteal Numismatics." Not even the returns of Professor Ian Duncan (John Oliver) and Star-Burns -- plus a brief cameo from Ben Folds -- could alleviate the dim mood.
"Dark," by the way, is a literal thing in this "Community" episode. With a blue filter on the camera and a whole bunch of mood lighting, the show takes on a new identity. It might be "The Killing." We could be watching a David Fincher movie like "Fight Club" or "Se7en."
This makes sense though. When a criminal is sticking coins where the sun don't shine, there can be no true sunshine for anyone.
Greendale's worst criminal returns
Star-Burns the meth dealer wasn't the worst criminal Greendale ever saw. Similarly, Chang's reign of terror paled in comparison to the...
"Dark," by the way, is a literal thing in this "Community" episode. With a blue filter on the camera and a whole bunch of mood lighting, the show takes on a new identity. It might be "The Killing." We could be watching a David Fincher movie like "Fight Club" or "Se7en."
This makes sense though. When a criminal is sticking coins where the sun don't shine, there can be no true sunshine for anyone.
Greendale's worst criminal returns
Star-Burns the meth dealer wasn't the worst criminal Greendale ever saw. Similarly, Chang's reign of terror paled in comparison to the...
- 1/10/2014
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
Junkie Trailer, Junkie Poster. Adam Mason‘s Junkie (2012) movie trailer, movie poster stars Robert Lasardo, Daniel Louis Rivas, Tess Panzer, Tomas Boykin, and Andrew Howard. Junkie‘s plot synopsis: “Junkie is a black comedy about two drug addled brothers, Danny
(Daniel Louis Rivas) and Nicky (Robert Lasardo).
When Danny wakes up one morning and decides he’s going clean, Nicky’s not taking it lying down, and drives Danny from one insane experience to another as a whole host of bizarre, surreal characters descend on their sprawling, dilapidated mansion, all with grievances to bear, debts to reclaim or trouble to cause.
As Danny’s life spirals out of control he must fight tooth and nail to kick the habit and rescue himself from the personal hell Nicky has consigned him to, whilst simultaneously attempting to repair the deeply damaged relationships with his increasingly bizarre friends and family.”
The Junkie movie...
(Daniel Louis Rivas) and Nicky (Robert Lasardo).
When Danny wakes up one morning and decides he’s going clean, Nicky’s not taking it lying down, and drives Danny from one insane experience to another as a whole host of bizarre, surreal characters descend on their sprawling, dilapidated mansion, all with grievances to bear, debts to reclaim or trouble to cause.
As Danny’s life spirals out of control he must fight tooth and nail to kick the habit and rescue himself from the personal hell Nicky has consigned him to, whilst simultaneously attempting to repair the deeply damaged relationships with his increasingly bizarre friends and family.”
The Junkie movie...
- 3/11/2012
- by R.W.
- Film-Book
After years on the shelf, Adam Mason's pretty great Blood River, which reteams Mason with actor Andrew Howard and co-writer Simon Boyes, is now available in various On Demand platforms. The psychological thriller, which explores the destruction of a young couple's seemingly perfect marriage, can be watched instantly on Netflix and even on Amazon! "Scratch beneath their smooth yuppie surface and a wealth of secrets emerges after husband and wife Clark (Ian Duncan) and Summer (Tess Panzer) encounter car trouble and find themselves injured and stranded in the Nevada desert. Salvation -- they think -- comes in the form of a ghost town named Blood River and the gospel-spewing itinerant they encounter there. But soon they realize that the helpful stranger might not be so helpful after all."...
- 10/30/2011
- bloody-disgusting.com
Director John Murlowski’s Next Stop Murder will be heading our way soon. The film is a bus ride gone wrong action/thriller that stars Brian Krause, Rosa Blasi, Ian Duncan, Jordan Baker and the awesome Lin Shaye. There are no dates set for this film but you can check out the synopsis below.
Synopsis:
Two women from completely different backgrounds, one rich, one struggling law student, and each with their own problems, who meet by chance on a city bus. Afterwards, their lives will never be the same. Molly is a recently married working-class woman who rides the city bus to attend law school. Molly’s problem is Heather, her husband Jeff’s ex-wife and the mother of eight-year-old Gracie, with whom Molly is desperately trying to forge a bond. Heather is an irresponsible, drug-addict who is allowed supervised visitation of her biological daughter, but is nothing but trouble,...
Synopsis:
Two women from completely different backgrounds, one rich, one struggling law student, and each with their own problems, who meet by chance on a city bus. Afterwards, their lives will never be the same. Molly is a recently married working-class woman who rides the city bus to attend law school. Molly’s problem is Heather, her husband Jeff’s ex-wife and the mother of eight-year-old Gracie, with whom Molly is desperately trying to forge a bond. Heather is an irresponsible, drug-addict who is allowed supervised visitation of her biological daughter, but is nothing but trouble,...
- 12/31/2010
- by brians
- GeekTyrant
Blood River Poster*Here be spoilers.
Director: Adam Mason.
Writers: Adam Mason and Simon Boyes.
Blood River is a film from long time writing Simon Boyes and Adam Mason. These two filmmakers have collaborated on The Devil's Chair, Broken and this latest effort Blood River. This film was recently released in the UK on DVD as of July 19th, with a release on video-on-demand through Gravitas Ventures now e.g. At&T, Charter and Verizon (a full list below). Blood River was shot in and around the deserts of Los Angeles and Mason, with Boyes tackle existential questions like: what qualifies as a sin, and what is a suitable punishment for an identified sin? Taking scripture from the Old Testament, the film turns one couple against each other in a tense test of right and wrong.
Clark and Summer are two holiday travellers en route to Summer's parents house. Here they will announce her pregnancy.
Director: Adam Mason.
Writers: Adam Mason and Simon Boyes.
Blood River is a film from long time writing Simon Boyes and Adam Mason. These two filmmakers have collaborated on The Devil's Chair, Broken and this latest effort Blood River. This film was recently released in the UK on DVD as of July 19th, with a release on video-on-demand through Gravitas Ventures now e.g. At&T, Charter and Verizon (a full list below). Blood River was shot in and around the deserts of Los Angeles and Mason, with Boyes tackle existential questions like: what qualifies as a sin, and what is a suitable punishment for an identified sin? Taking scripture from the Old Testament, the film turns one couple against each other in a tense test of right and wrong.
Clark and Summer are two holiday travellers en route to Summer's parents house. Here they will announce her pregnancy.
- 9/9/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
Director: Adam Mason. Review: Adam Wing. Appearances can be deceiving, especially in the case of Adam Mason’s psychological thriller Blood River. You’ll be forgiven for expecting something along the lines of Wolf Creek and The Hitcher, but after an all too familiar set up, Blood River turns into a worthier proposition. A successful young married couple are on their way to visit family when they pass a drifter walking cross-country. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. That’ll be The Hitcher and Wolf Creek covered then, Adam Mason successfully avoids any further comparisons when his plot takes a devilish twist. It’s not long before Joseph joins them, the mysterious stranger they passed on the roadside. He takes an immediate shine to Summer (Tess Panzer) and gets on the wrong side...
- 7/24/2010
- 24framespersecond.net
Adam Mason's Blood River is a slippery beast, consistently playing with genre, tone, and misplaced expectations. Starting off as an almost painfully conventional riff on any number of The Hitcher-esque horror/thrillers (Breakdown and Wolf Creek in particular spring to mind, whilst the yuppie-in-peril movies of the 80s are also owed a debt) it slowly evolves into a far more complex and altogether more interesting film that tackles some rather weighty themes.
Clark (Ian Duncan) and his pregnant wife Summer (Tess Panzer) are on their way through the Nevada desert to visit her parents, when a massive blowout sends them off the road. Without a spare, they doggedly head to the nearest town on foot, bloodied and thirsty. When they arrive at the titular Blood River, it's a ghost town with only rotting animals and endless flies for company; until cowboy-styled drifter and all round religious zealot, Joseph (Andrew Howard) appears,...
Clark (Ian Duncan) and his pregnant wife Summer (Tess Panzer) are on their way through the Nevada desert to visit her parents, when a massive blowout sends them off the road. Without a spare, they doggedly head to the nearest town on foot, bloodied and thirsty. When they arrive at the titular Blood River, it's a ghost town with only rotting animals and endless flies for company; until cowboy-styled drifter and all round religious zealot, Joseph (Andrew Howard) appears,...
- 7/14/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Blood River UK DVD ArtAdam Mason's psychologically tortuous Blood River is being released by Revolver Entertainment in the United Kingdom July 19th. Seminal Films will be releasing the film in North America, with a release date unannounced. The DVD art for this horror feature can be seen here (United Kingdom) and Mason's story tells a tale of a relationship between a newlywed couple and a very dangerous drifter. The tension mounts as this couple becomes stranded in a "deserted ghost town" (Revolver). More details on a North American release date are sure to follow shortly.
The synopsis for Blood River here:
"From the director of Broken and The Devil's Chair comes a new vision of terror as a newlywed couple’s relationship is pushed to the limit during a chance encounter with a mysterious drifter in a deserted ghost town.
After a near-fatal car crash in the middle of the desert,...
The synopsis for Blood River here:
"From the director of Broken and The Devil's Chair comes a new vision of terror as a newlywed couple’s relationship is pushed to the limit during a chance encounter with a mysterious drifter in a deserted ghost town.
After a near-fatal car crash in the middle of the desert,...
- 6/20/2010
- by 28DaysLaterAnalysis@gmail.com (Michael Ross Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
You can see the influence of the Southern Gothic greats Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner in Blood River, and while one could note the former’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and novel Wise Blood as specific references, I think the MacBeth soliloquy that inspired the title of one of Faulkner’s masterpieces is more apropos: Blood River (screened at this year’s Fantasia festival) is “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Harsh words, indeed, but at least I left out the “It is a tale told by an idiot” part.
Let me take a step back for a moment. Blood River is a decent movie reminiscent of The Hitcher that’s disastrously derailed by a terrible conclusion that had me leaving the theater frustrated and shaking my head in irritated disappointment. But let me take another step back and give you the story setup.
Let me take a step back for a moment. Blood River is a decent movie reminiscent of The Hitcher that’s disastrously derailed by a terrible conclusion that had me leaving the theater frustrated and shaking my head in irritated disappointment. But let me take another step back and give you the story setup.
- 7/29/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (Allan Dart)
- Fangoria
- British writer/director Adam Mason's previous films, Broken and The Devil's Chair, have been described as many things, but subtle is not one of them. With Blood River, Mason and regular writing partner Simon Boyes have done a complete one-eighty (well, maybe one-forty) from the brutality and gore of their prior efforts and have delivered a psychological thriller with religious undertones. Clark (Ian Duncan, Creep) and Summer (Tess Panzer, in her first starring role) are a young couple on a road trip through the Nevada desert on their way to tell her parents that Summer is pregnant. When one of their tires has a blowout and the only soul around is a hitchhiker (Andrew Howard, The Devil's Chair) they had rather rudely brushed off earlier, the table is set for an intense tale of sin and retribution that leaves the audience wondering who the true hero of the movie is.
- 7/19/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
It's been a while since we got an update on Adam Mason's Blood River, which Andrew rated quite highly after catching at last year's Afm. But we now have the final trailer up for your viewing pleasure below.
In case you're a little foggy on the plot, Blood River, which stars Andrew Howard (who was so great in Mason's The Devil's Chair - review here), Tess Panzer, Ian Duncan, and Sarah Essex is a psychological thriller following a married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town but discover it is abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger that changes everything.
Keep it here for more Blood River news as it comes in.
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In case you're a little foggy on the plot, Blood River, which stars Andrew Howard (who was so great in Mason's The Devil's Chair - review here), Tess Panzer, Ian Duncan, and Sarah Essex is a psychological thriller following a married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town but discover it is abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious stranger that changes everything.
Keep it here for more Blood River news as it comes in.
Blood River - Final Trailer
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- 2/19/2009
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Year: 2008
Release date: Unknown
Directors: Adam Mason
Writers: Simon Boyes / Adam Mason
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
I've never used the phrase "tour de force" in a review before. I never liked it. I always felt it was one of those phrases reviewers held in their pocket and threw out there whenever they couldn't really get to the bottom of why they thought a film or a performance was great. And yet now, after watching Blood River, I feel compelled to use that darn phrase to describe it. I even looked it up to make sure I was indeed using it correctly; "expression meaning an exceptional creative achievement." Well that is indeed Blood River. A film where the writing, acting, directing, and cinematography, all work together to create a *gulp* a tour de force in every sense of the phrase.
It's weird too because in...
Release date: Unknown
Directors: Adam Mason
Writers: Simon Boyes / Adam Mason
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: agentorange
Rating: 8.5 out of 10
I've never used the phrase "tour de force" in a review before. I never liked it. I always felt it was one of those phrases reviewers held in their pocket and threw out there whenever they couldn't really get to the bottom of why they thought a film or a performance was great. And yet now, after watching Blood River, I feel compelled to use that darn phrase to describe it. I even looked it up to make sure I was indeed using it correctly; "expression meaning an exceptional creative achievement." Well that is indeed Blood River. A film where the writing, acting, directing, and cinematography, all work together to create a *gulp* a tour de force in every sense of the phrase.
It's weird too because in...
- 1/15/2009
- QuietEarth.us
**Please Note: This will be at the top for a while; be sure to scroll down for updated news stories!** Horror may currently be in a slump, but the 2008 American Film Market has shown a huge light at the end of the tunnel. This year showcased a record number of horror titles and Dread Central was on hand to catch a great deal of them. Some were good, some were bad but all showed that this genre still has plenty of lifeblood left. Many exhibitors were also kind enough to show us movie promos, while others coldly showed us the door (Lesbian Vampire Killers, I’m looking at you). The most promising show previews were easily Night of the Demons and Clive Barker’s Dread, with plenty of new projects being announced. Check out our full Afm '08 coverage here.
So without further ado, we present you with our yearly...
So without further ado, we present you with our yearly...
- 11/12/2008
- by Andrew Kasch
- DreadCentral.com
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