A Simple Job Turns Into A Fight For Survival In Nico Senter's Next, ATOMIC EDEN

From L to R: Kazuki Kato, Mike Moëller, Fred Williamson and Nico Senter

I am going to do what I can this weekend to check out Mike Möeller’s latest action feature to hit the U.S., Arena Of The Street Fighter. It is currently available this month on theaters and digital download, as Möeller’s career continues to bloom with even more headlines about his work.

A recent interview with Ken Hanley at Fangoria discloses current details pertaining to the post-production of a new film on its way to screens titled Atomic Eden. Nico Senter directed the film last year reuniting him with Möeller since “Arena Of The Street Fighter”, where Senter served as both actor and co-executive producer, and actress Hazuki Kato since co-starring in and providing the script for Sebastian Bartolitius’s “Sin Reaper”. The film also stars actor, martial artist and former football player Fred Williamson, whose previous films include “Three The Hard Way”, “One Down, Two To Go” and “From Dusk Til Dawn”, who is rejoined with martial artist TV and film actor, Lorenzo Lamas (pictured right) since the 1990’s action TV show, Renegade.

According to Senter’s statements in the interview, the film is set up as big action thriller with a story that combines the overall feel of “The Magnificent Seven” and the contained police thriller, “Assault On Precinct 13”. It features small group of mercenaries who are recruited to retrieve cargo from an underground bunker on the abandoned island of Chernobyl. The job is supposed to be easy money, until our team finds itself surrounded by highly skilled operatives wearing radiation suits, led by an unknown enemy intent on retrieving the very cargo they are all after. The attack forces the mercenaries into a hideout with the cargo, but time is running out.

The plot thickens as our team discovers the cargo happens to contain secret weapon nearly a century old created by the Nazis in World War 2 and taken to Chernobyl by the Soviets, which ultimately explains the nature of the very “accident” that occured on the island in the 1980’s. Fast forward to present day, our team is caught behind enemy lines on an island still rife with radiation that will eventually kill them the longer they stay. And the only way out is to fight their way out, with the cargo they came for.

It’s pretty obvious Senter has a deep appreciation for classic movies, considering “The Magnificent Seven” is a derivation of a series of other classic films like it, along with John Carpenter’s “Assault On Precinct 13”, which earned itself cult status unlike its lesser-received remake nearly 30 years later. I also love that he casted Williamson, Lamas and Moëller, all of which tell me that this should definitely be an excellent film to look forward to. In the end though, what it boils down to is how the film looks on screen, so hopefully this will mean a trailer sometime soon.

So for now, it’s just a matter of time until we hear more about who will pick up to distribute the film, in addition to other film credits that will help us understand these updates a little more in the weeks and months ahead. In the meantime, feel free to check out Arena Of The Street Fighter this weekend, and share your comments on Facebook, Twitter or Google+.