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Alamo honcho taps film production
The Alamo Drafthouse is getting into the producing racket — or at least the Alamo’s co-founder Tim League is. League, also co-founder of Fantastic Fest, is putting his name as executive producer on a new “slacker revenge movie” called “Red, White and Blue,” directed by Simon Rumley (“The Living and the Dead”).
The film is in production in Austin and stars Noah Taylor (“Shine,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”), Amanda Fuller (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) and Marc Senter (“Cabin Fever 2”).
Rumley’s film “The Living and the Dead” was a smash at Fantastic Fest, where it won five awards. Producers say to expect “Red, White and Blue” to be a deep-dish Austin effort, with favorite local spots and local extras.
They also say: “An unashamedly tough and uncompromising movie, ‘Red White & Blue’ is a fearlessly frank, gut-wrenching romance and a merciless exploration of the futility of violence. Like Rumley’s ‘The Living and the Dead’ before it, the movie — with its casual nudity and scenes of extreme violence — is no doubt destined for controversy.”
Sweet.
Senter, Rumley, Fuller, League and Taylor, posing badd-like
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By Alfred
June 30, 2009 6:22 PM | Link to this
Simon Rumley has the gift. If Hollywood doesn’t wake up and give Simon a shot, they are going to miss out at the box office.