This past week Bloody Disgusting's Evan Katz headed up north to Vancouver to check out the set of Sony Stage 6's 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, which is currently being directed by Ben Ketai. Beyond the break you'll find a little teaser from set, which reveals some brand new casting including Ginger Snaps star Katherine Isabelle!
My time on the set of 30 Days of Night (Dark Days) was short, but definitely left an impression. The movie’s currently being filmed at TERMINAL CITY, a very impressive set which used to be a functioning foundry. The very textures of the buildings and neon signs reminded me strongly of the comic itself. Just from the look of the production design, I can tell that Ben Ketai has already done a fantastic job capturing the atmosphere and tone of the series.
While I’d already known about the casting of Kiele Sanchez, Mia Kirschner, Rhys Coiro, Diora Baird, Harold Perrineau, Troy Ruptash, Jackson Berlin, John De Santis, and Marco Sorian… I was pleasantly surprised to find Katherine Isabelle of GINGER SNAPS fame was has a role in the film. I can’t give away too much, but her scene involved a skimpy blue nightgown, fifty degree weather, and a highly unorthodox vampiric initiation ritual. Really screwed up, intense stuff.
One of the producers, J.R. Young, tells me that the style of this entry is slightly different. “While the last one was almost sort of a western… Ben’s approaching this one like a war film.”
Seeing the footage he’s shooting I can get that. There’s a violent, gritty immediacy to the scene that we’re shown; the location definitely has a war-torn vibe to it.
By the end of my set visit, I learned a quite bit more about the vampire language, “vampiric”, the best way to tear out a human throat… and why everything just seems nicer in Vancouver… even its crack infested ghettos. Definitely more to come!"
For a moment there I was excited b/c I thought it was news for a GINGER SNAPS 4. But this is also good news. I want Katharine back doing lots of horror films!!!
Support for vampires being scary again! Katharine Isabelle is great by the way. Though I am sad that this film is not getting a theatrical release, I do look forward to this. I like the people involved. I just hope that they do it well. The graphic novels and the first film are exellent. I do hope that books and films like these make vampires actually scary again.
Katie Isabelle and Mia Kirshner in the same movie??? What god did I please? Is someone trying to turn me straight? Not a fan of the first, but will watch this just for the cast. Can't wait.
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