Jj Abrams will executive produce a new space age drama for HBO, TheWrap has confirmed. Currently titled “Glare,” the hour-long series will focus on the colonization of an alien planet. Abrams is producing through Bad Robot Productions, alongside Bad Robot development head Ben Stephenson and Javier Gullón, who is also writing the script. Warner Bros. Television will produce. Gullón previously wrote screenplays for the 2013 Jake Gyllenhaal film “Enemy” and the 2007 film “El Rey de la Montaña,” about a man who must evade a mysterious assailant in the mountains of Spain. Also Read: 'Cloverfield' Sequel Set for Fall 2017, 'God Particle' Off.
- 12/9/2016
- by Joe Otterson
- The Wrap
Us-based production company Atlas Independent has tapped Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego (King of the Hill, Apollo 18, Open Grave) to direct their new film Sanctuary, based on a script by Ryne Douglas Pearson (Mercury Rising, Knowing).According to an article on SciFi World (in Spanish), tells the story of three documentary filmmakers who go to South America to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a village. They find a strange building in the middle of the town, with no sign of entry or exit.If you haven't seen King of the Hill, I insist that you find a copy. It's an incredible film about a man and woman running from an unseen gunman in the hills of Spain, playing on rural thriller tropes and video game aesthetics. (In...
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- 1/30/2014
- Screen Anarchy
After making his English language debut with 2011’s Apollo 18, Spanish director Gonzalo López-Gallego returns with another horror-thriller this year in Open Grave.
Led by Sharlto Copley, who really looks to be going from strength to strength, the film is set to be released in Italy this August, and the first international teaser trailer has surfaced online, along with a handful of images to set the tone nicely.
Six people wake up with in a remote forest next to an open grave of rotting bodies, with no memory of what happened. Not knowing if one among them is the murderer, they must piece together the mysterious set of circumstances that brought them together before it’s too late.
Copley stars alongside Erin Richards (Breaking In), Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula), Josie Ho (Exiled), and Max Wrottesley (The Cosmonaut).
López-Gallego is directing from a script co-written by brothers Chris and Eddie Borey,...
Led by Sharlto Copley, who really looks to be going from strength to strength, the film is set to be released in Italy this August, and the first international teaser trailer has surfaced online, along with a handful of images to set the tone nicely.
Six people wake up with in a remote forest next to an open grave of rotting bodies, with no memory of what happened. Not knowing if one among them is the murderer, they must piece together the mysterious set of circumstances that brought them together before it’s too late.
Copley stars alongside Erin Richards (Breaking In), Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries), Thomas Kretschmann (Dracula), Josie Ho (Exiled), and Max Wrottesley (The Cosmonaut).
López-Gallego is directing from a script co-written by brothers Chris and Eddie Borey,...
- 7/8/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Well, when you’re hot, you’re hot. Shartlo Copley week continues with news that the actor’s other new project (aside from playing the villain in Spike Lee’s Oldboy remake) Open Grave, has a new cast member. Her name is Josie Ho.
If you haven’t heard of Ms Ho, don’t fret too much, just go check out director Ho-Cheung Pang’s 2010 film Dream Home in which she stars. You won’t regret it.
Dream Home sees Ho play Cheng Li-Sheung, a young professional woman out to secure her dream riverside apartment in Hong Kong. Problem is she can’t afford it. What follows is an insanely bloody high-rise killfest with some nice social commentary stitched in-between the bloodshed and some fairly inventive murders. Ho proves herself as intense as she is beautiful and obsessed as she is lethal. She’s perfect casting for the gruesome...
If you haven’t heard of Ms Ho, don’t fret too much, just go check out director Ho-Cheung Pang’s 2010 film Dream Home in which she stars. You won’t regret it.
Dream Home sees Ho play Cheng Li-Sheung, a young professional woman out to secure her dream riverside apartment in Hong Kong. Problem is she can’t afford it. What follows is an insanely bloody high-rise killfest with some nice social commentary stitched in-between the bloodshed and some fairly inventive murders. Ho proves herself as intense as she is beautiful and obsessed as she is lethal. She’s perfect casting for the gruesome...
- 5/4/2012
- by Cameron Ashley
- Boomtron
Jake Gyllenhaal is in talks for An Enemy. The Source Code star is to play a dual role in Denis Villeneuve's new movie, reports Variety. The script is being adapted by Javier Gullón (El Rey de la Montaña) from Jose Saramago's offbeat novel The Double. Gyllenhaal will star as Tertuliano Máximo Afonso, a depressed divorcee and history teacher who spends his nights reading about Mesopotamian civilisations. He wakes in the night to find the Vcr playing a film featuring a moustachioed man who is otherwise (more)...
- 3/20/2012
- by By Hugh Armitage
- Digital Spy
Although I remain somewhat intrigued by the possibility of a found footage horror movie set in space, I have to admit that the marketing for Apollo 18 hasn't been particularly inspired thus far. The constant shuffling of the release date also seems to indicate a lack of confidence from The Weinstein Company, and aside from having Timur Bekmambetov as a producer, all of the talent involved are basically unknowns. Director Gonzalo López-Gallego previously did a thriller called King of the Hill (which I've heard is good), but on the other hand, one of the screenwriters is the same guy that wrote Priest. Yikes. A new trailer has just arrived online over at Yahoo! [1] and it really doesn't seem all that different from the teaser trailer [2] that was released back in February. I understand that they're trying not to give too much away, but at some point you have to offer...
- 6/27/2011
- by Sean
- FilmJunk
Dimension Films/The Weinstein Company are catapulting us back to the moon in the eerie found footage sci-fi flick entitled “Apollo 18.” Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego, the story tickles our fancy over the thought of whether or not we did make another trip to the moon and found some things we never dreamed of finding, or ever wanted to. López-Gallego’s most recent directorial work includes “El rey de la montaña.” “Apollo 18″ is the director’s first English-language film. Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the [...]...
- 2/20/2011
- by melissa
- ShockYa
The Weinstein Company has released a teaser poster for their upcoming "Apollo 18". The sci-fi horror film is slated for release in March of 2011 and was just announced for filming under director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego ("El Rey De La MONTAñA") (replacing the previously-announced Trevor Cawood). The movie, which will shoot in a "found footage" documentary style, will pretend to unearth lost footage from Apollo 18's undocumented and covert mission to the moon, revealing disturbing new evidence of other life forms....
- 11/26/2010
- www.ohmygore.com/
This has nothing to do with Universal's Mummy movies nor is it a remake of the 1944 Lon Cheney film The Mummy's Curse. La Times reports that Dimension Films is developing a horror movie called The Mummy Archives, similar to Paranormal Activity and described as "a more artful and modestly budgeted version of The Mummy." The concept, conceived by Doug Wick, focuses on several young people who are haunted by a mummy curse, with most of the action playing out in the "unseen realm," as both the audience and the characters frequently experience the effects of the curse without seeing it. This sounds very interesting. Dimension has hired Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego, a young Spanish genre director who directed a film called King of the Hill (or El Rey De la Montaña) previously, to write the screenplay and direct the film. The Mummy Archives is expected to have a very low budget of...
- 5/5/2010
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
[In honor of the fact that a) I absolutely adore this film b) it released on DVD today and c) I am quoted front and center on the DVD cover, I hereby reprint this review of Gonazlo Lopez Gallego’s King of the Hill, originally written when the film debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2007 and just as true now.]
A sly, deceptive gut punch of a picture Gonzalo López-Gallego’s King of the Hill is a brilliant, vicious little piece of work. It is a fierce piece of social commentary, the sort of picture that could never be made in North America but, by god, does it need to be. López-Gallego gives you just enough of what you expect, just enough of the familiar, to lull you into a sense of complacency. He lets you think you know what’s coming next and then, suddenly and shockingly, it all turns in on itself and becomes something entirely other, entirely more. It is the sort of film that is incredibly difficult to talk about without spoiling the punch but believe this: people will talk. And they will do so for all the right reasons.
A sly, deceptive gut punch of a picture Gonzalo López-Gallego’s King of the Hill is a brilliant, vicious little piece of work. It is a fierce piece of social commentary, the sort of picture that could never be made in North America but, by god, does it need to be. López-Gallego gives you just enough of what you expect, just enough of the familiar, to lull you into a sense of complacency. He lets you think you know what’s coming next and then, suddenly and shockingly, it all turns in on itself and becomes something entirely other, entirely more. It is the sort of film that is incredibly difficult to talk about without spoiling the punch but believe this: people will talk. And they will do so for all the right reasons.
- 1/20/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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