Nikita Argunov has worked on quite the docket in the last several years, producing and specializing in visual effects for films respectively on titles like Tadanobu Asano’s 2007 headliner, Mongol, Sarik Andreasyan’s Mafiya: Survivor’s Game and superhero thriller, Guardians, and as recently on Sergey Moritsky’s Futurewave-selected Best Feature Film-nominated A Rough Draft.
The noted VFX specialized has also had his eye on his latest directorial debut, The Coma, which has been in the works for a few years now with teaser footage circulating, and ultimately hitting the sales floor at Berlin earlier this year. Its release date has been moved a few times but now has a November 14 listing according to Russia’s Mars Media, and stars Rinal Mukhametov, Aleksey Serebryakov, Anton Pampushnyy, Lyubov Aksenova and Milosh Bikovich.
After the terrible and mysterious car crash a young talented architect wakes up in a bizarre world. This place is made from memories of those who are in coma. Like human memory, it is fragmented, chaotic and unconsistent. This is the world inside coma, where rivers, glaciers and whole cities can fit in a single room and any laws of physics are violated.
The architect has to understand how this place works, fight for his life, meet his true love, finally find the way out, to grasp the real world in a new way, understanding what coma really is.
Argunov penned the script with Aleksey Gravitskiy, Timofey Dekin, and is once more partnered with Andreasyan who serves as producer with Gevond Andreasyan, Ruben Dishdishyan and Vladimir Polyakov.
