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Franka jagt das Monster!
Am 20. Oktober beginnen in London die Dreharbeiten zu CREEP. Der Horrorfilm wird produziert von der britischen Firma Dan Films in Koproduktion mit Zero Film West. X Verleih wird CREEP in die deutschen Kinos bringen!
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FRANKA POTENTE STARTS SHOOTING IN LONDON ON HORROR FILM CREEP
On 20 October 2003, twelve days before Halloween, shooting commences on CREEP, a horror film set in subterranean London.
Celebrated actress FRANKA POTENTE, star of The Bourne Identity, Blow and Run Lola Run leads an exciting cast including SEAN HARRIS (24 Hour Party People), JEREMY SHEFFIELD (Something Borrowed), PAUL RATTRAY (Enigma), VAS BLACKWOOD (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), KEN CAMPBELL (A Fish Called Wanda) and KELLY SCOTT. CREEP is the debut feature from acclaimed writer and director CHRIS SMITH, previously responsible for short films including The Day Grandad Went Blind and The 10,000th Day. The film is produced by JULIE BAINES and JASON NEWMARK of DAN FILMS (The Cat’s Meow, Summer Things, Butterfly Kiss) and will shoot on location in London and Cologne.
London, midnight, on a cold evening. Unable to find a taxi, Kate (Franka Potente) heads for the Underground. She takes a seat away from the crowd of late-night revelers and waits for the last train. Before long she drifts off to sleep… and wakes to find everyone gone. She momentarily panics until another train pulls in. She boards, unnerved that she’s the only passenger, but relieved at last to be on her way. Halfway through the tunnel the train jerks to a violent halt. The lights shut off and the train is plunged into darkness. Kate screams… she is trapped, in the dark… and she is not alone… her nightmare has only just begun.
German actress and rising star FRANKA POTENTE burst on to cinema screens as the lead in Run Lola Run, a part written specifically for her by writer/director Tom Tykwer. She continued her success with films including Blow, playing opposite Johnny Depp, and the action thriller hit The Bourne Identity, with co-star Matt Damon. Most recently she has featured in Peter Greenaway’s The Tulse Lupur Suitcases, Try Seventeen alongside Elijah Wood, and will team up once again with Matt Damon in the upcoming The Bourne Supremacy.
Writer/director CHRIS SMITH injects fresh blood in to the horror genre with his debut feature. He comments: “With CREEP I intend to take away the safety net, to explore our worst fears, beginning with the basics: the fear of being along, being trapped, being in the dark, and then moving on to far less palatable areas: assault, torture and human experimentation. This will not be a film that allows you to relax at any point, safe in the knowledge that you can cope with what’s to come. Instead you will always feel that the worst is ahead, but you will have no choice but to watch.”
CREEP will shoot on location in London and Cologne. Among the London locations is the eerie disused Underground station of Aldwych and other sites in the West End. Production design is by JOHN FRANKISH, whose previous credits include Thunderbirds, Gosford Park, Chocolat, Highlander II and Brazil. Cinematographer is DANIEL COHEN who recently shot Shane Meadow’s Untitled and Only Human.
CREEP is a Dan Films production in association with Zero West in Germany, and is backed by the UK Film Council’s Premiere Fund and Filmstiftung Nordrhein-Westfalia (NRW). The film will be distributed in the UK by Pathé, in Germany by X-Filme, and will be sold internationally by Capitol Films.
