One of the more unsung Spanish chillers to appear in recent years was Backwoods, from director Koldo Serra and starring Gary Oldman. Now Serra’s taking another crack at the genre, helming the zombie opus Dead Perros (Dead Dogs or Perros Muertos).
Serra (pictured) will do the film for executive producer Antonia Nava (Backwoods, Fragile and The Machinist) and her Nava Ent., along with Telespan 2000 and Sakaya Producciones. Serra also scripted the $5.6-million movie with Carlos Garcia Miranda, and Spanish heartthrob Hugo Silva will star as Cocacolo, leader of a group of young gangsters who flee Barcelona after pulling off a bank heist. When his gang double-crosses and abandons him, he winds up in a rural town that falls under attack by ghouls (spawned when the locals drink tainted rapeseed oil) and teams with a family to fight them off. The film “includes Andalusian and Catalan touches, but the concept is entirely universal,...
Serra (pictured) will do the film for executive producer Antonia Nava (Backwoods, Fragile and The Machinist) and her Nava Ent., along with Telespan 2000 and Sakaya Producciones. Serra also scripted the $5.6-million movie with Carlos Garcia Miranda, and Spanish heartthrob Hugo Silva will star as Cocacolo, leader of a group of young gangsters who flee Barcelona after pulling off a bank heist. When his gang double-crosses and abandons him, he winds up in a rural town that falls under attack by ghouls (spawned when the locals drink tainted rapeseed oil) and teams with a family to fight them off. The film “includes Andalusian and Catalan touches, but the concept is entirely universal,...
- 11/18/2010
- by Dave
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
We first told you about Dead Perros (aka Perros Muertos) way back in February, and after nearly a year of silence there's finally an update to be had, albeit a small one.
According to Variety Spanish producer Antonia Nava has inked with Telespan 2000 to produce zombie actioner Dead Perros, to be helmed by Koldo Serra (pictured right; Backwoods).
Serra co-wrote Perros with Carlos Garcia Miranda, who penned smash hit TV skein "El Internado". It will star Spanish heartthrob Hugo Silva. Nava said Perros plays like From Dusk Till Dawn meets Spanish B movies -- especially the 70s-80s sub-genre of "quinqui" movies, featuring mop-haired, drug-addled criminals, still only in their teens. According to Nava, budget is around E4 million ($5.6 million).
Dig on the plot crunch -- "Perros" has a petty criminal, Cocacolo, pulling a Barcelona bank job and fleeing south, just as a family leaves Northern Spain for holidays. The...
According to Variety Spanish producer Antonia Nava has inked with Telespan 2000 to produce zombie actioner Dead Perros, to be helmed by Koldo Serra (pictured right; Backwoods).
Serra co-wrote Perros with Carlos Garcia Miranda, who penned smash hit TV skein "El Internado". It will star Spanish heartthrob Hugo Silva. Nava said Perros plays like From Dusk Till Dawn meets Spanish B movies -- especially the 70s-80s sub-genre of "quinqui" movies, featuring mop-haired, drug-addled criminals, still only in their teens. According to Nava, budget is around E4 million ($5.6 million).
Dig on the plot crunch -- "Perros" has a petty criminal, Cocacolo, pulling a Barcelona bank job and fleeing south, just as a family leaves Northern Spain for holidays. The...
- 11/16/2010
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
It was announced that Spanish producer Antonia Nava has inked with Telespan 2000 to produce zombie actioner Dead Perros, to be helmed by Koldo Serra (Backwoods). In Perros, a small-time juvenile gangster, Cocacolo, flees south with his gang after a Barcelona bank heist. Double-crossed and abandoned in the middle of nowhere, he join forces with a Spanish family to battle a zombie outbreak, sparked by the locals' consumption of adulterated rapeseed oil. Serra co-wrote Perros with Carlos Garcia Miranda, who penned smash hit TV skein El Internado. It will star Spanish heartthrob Hugo Silva. Nava said Perros plays like From Dusk Till Dawn meets Spanish B movies -- especially the 70s-80s sub-genre of "quinqui" movies, featuring mop-haired, drug-addled criminals, still only in their teens. According to Nava, budget is around E4 million ($5.6 million).
- 11/16/2010
- bloody-disgusting.com
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