Cameras are set to roll this Spring in New York and New Jersey for dark comedy crime pic, The Kill Room, according to Deadline’s Andreas Wiseman reporting on the addition of actor Joe Manganiello (Archenemy, Zack Snyder’s Justice League) to the cast.
After finishing THE SPINE OF NIGHT, I was struck by a feeling that I had just witnessed a lost relic of my youth. Something that should have been passed to me on a VHS with a hand-written label by a friend, after a lengthy session of “Dungeons & Dragons”, along with a dog-eared horror paperback in exchange for trading them a bootleg copy of Ralph Bakshi’s FIRE & ICE and the latest copy of “Heavy Metal” magazine. Only to take the tape home and watch it immediately on my tiny bedroom television over and over again until the next week’s tabletop game session where the cycle of trades would continue until every one of my friends had their minds melted by this beautiful piece of animated pulp weirdness.
Currently set to screen for this year’s Fuck Covid Edition of Beyond Fest, the Adam Egypt Mortimer-directed Joe Manganiello starrer, Archenemy, is slated for an on-demand, digital and select-theatrical release on December 11. Thus, RLJE Films has dropped the official trailer which you can now view above, as well as the official poster, designed by Christian Ward.
Though his DC movieverse prospects may have taken a backseat, actor Joe Manganiello will still get his superhero thrills on in one form or another in the gritty new fantasy crime thriller, Archenemy.
Daniel Isn’t Real helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s new fantasy thriller, Archenemy, will release theatrically, on digital and on-demand beginning December 11, from AMC’s RLJE Films. Festival attendees currently making plans to catch the film earlier may do so for BeyondFest world premiere on October 2, and at Sitges beginning October 8.
I have a feeling we’re gonna see a few superhero-driven narratives in the year to come – the kind centered on superheroes out of their element only to be pulled back into the fray when duty calls. Such is the case for Daniel Isn’t Here helmer Adam Egypt Mortimer’s new film, Archenemy, which Voltage Pictures revealed this week in the form of an official trailer, firstly revealed by Variety
Indonesian action thrillers, Merantau, and the current dual-part installments of The Raid were all director Gareth Huw Evans needed to all but cement his name in the history of martial arts film fandom. Going into 2018, his most recent work will soon start stirring in the news cycle and film fest circuit with Dan Stevens thriller, Apostle, but that won’t be all we hear from Evans who is also in line to executive produce a reinstallation of his 2011 hit, The Raid, for helmer Joe Carnahan to direct.
Going forward, it just so happens the cult favorite is in line to helm a potential comic book spin-off in the form of Deathstroke, with actor Joe Manganiello (True Blood, upcoming Rampage) attached to the role as of last Fall. The brainchild of Marv Wolfman and George Pérez, Deathstroke is the alterego of Slade Wilson, a soldier since the age of sixteen and later the product of a military experiment that would induce him with abilities central to superior strength, fighting prowess, cerebral function and healing.
The character has been a mainstay in the DC comic book universe since debuting in 1980 and recurring in print, as well as in animation, video games, and live-action television on the CW’s Arrow and its spin-off, DC’s Legends Of Tomorrow. The archenemy of hero ensemble, “Teen Titans”, became the center of his own titular comic book, “Deathstroke The Terminator”, in the early 1990s.
As The Wrap reported on Wednesday, it was Evans’s own pitch impressed DC Entertainment executives enough to go forward with the film. The character made headlines late last year as actor Ben Affleck, currently set to star in a 2019 iteration of The Batman for Warner Bros., teased a role for the villain in a cryptic tweet long ahead of next month’s release of Justice League.
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