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Eco-Horror Goes Extra Vague With 'The Colony'
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What's worrying everybody today? The ecology! Going green! What's a dependable movie genre that can be made for a low budget and attract the all-important teen/young adult market? The horror! Going red! Now what if you combine the two?
Then you might have The Colony, described as an "eco-horror tale" by our friends at Variety. The report says that Participant Film has set up a deal based on a pitch by Stacy Title and Jonathan Penner, a filmmaking couple who previously made an Academy Award-nominated short and two features together back in the 90s. I didn't care for The Last Supper, directed by Title, a would-be black comedy featuring Cameron Diaz, Bill Paxton, and an ensemble cast stuck in a cabin in the woods, and I didn't see Let the Devil Wear Black, so I have no idea what to expect. If it helps in any way with our anticipation, Penner is a veteran actor and also appeared on the TV reality show Survivor: Cook Islands.
No plot details for The Colony have been released -- though a bunch of other movies have used that title, including a science fiction thriller set to start filming in January -- so we can let our imaginations run free. Will Penner use his experience on Survivor to inform the tale? What's your ideal eco-horror plot?
Peter Greenaway Plans to Animate DaVinci's 'Last Supper'
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This fascinating piece in the Guardian details British filmmaker Peter Greenaway's (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover) plans to bring to life Leonardo DaVinci's The Last Supper. The effort will be part of a series of projects the director and painter plans to animate classic works of art. Greenaway, according to the article, will use "dramatic lighting, projections, and recordings of actors' voices" to transform The Last Supper into "something close to a film." He plans to expand the moment DaVinci captured into his painting into a larger story stretching from Christ's birth through his crucifixion, and will include "raw and heavy images of Christ's genitalia and naked crucifixion" from other DaVinci works. Greenaway doesn't plan to stop with The Last Supper -- future plans for bringing works of art to life include works by Veronese, Velázquez, Picasso, Monet and Jackson Pollack; he's even asked the Vatican for permission to project onto Michelangelos' Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel. He's already done one project, animating Rembrandt's The Nightwatch in 2006.
The project is not without its critics -- some feel DaVinci's work stands on its own and doesn't need improving. Personally, I think this could be really cool. It's not like Greenaway proposes to deface or destroy classic works of art, he's basically just looking to reinterpret them with the help of media that wasn't available when they were painted. What do you think? Should great works of art be left alone, or could a project like this actually help the art world by exposing people to works of art from a perspective they might otherwise not have considered?
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