The Reaping
Joel Silver Faces The Reaping
“He’s doing great,” said Silver of Olsen. “He’s doing great. He worked hard down there, it was a hard experience to get through and he’s a good guy. I like him.”
Under Silver’s Dark Castle banner, the horror film boasts a higher cache than some of their other teen-centric fright fests. Starring two time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as a miracle debunking facing the real 10 plagues from the bible, The Haunting addresses religious questions as well as special effects.
“Dark Castle is changing,” said Silver. “This is the last film that was financed by Warners, in this case it was Warner Brothers and Dark Castle. As we’re moving forward, they’re going to be financed by us. We raise the money to make the picture ourselves. And the first in the new structure is Whiteout. But it’s also going to be more of a genre label, as opposed to just a horror label. Up until now, they’ve just been horror movies, but Whiteout is more of a thriller. And we’re going to make movies that are going to be action movies, urban comedies, we’re going to go into a more not strict horror label. But it’s whatever comes in. This script came in and it got together pretty quickly, and I liked where it was going, and I liked the twists in it, and Hilary said yes, and Stephen Hopkins said yes, and we made it. But it’s a little more sophisticated than House of Wax, which is a slasher film. I like slasher films. Look, they can be different movies and I think this one is a little more sophisticated than not, but still I think it’s a good scary movie.”
Dark Castle has also struggled with release dates, with Gothika, House of Wax and The Reaping shifting sometimes twice from proposed openings. “It’s just the effects. I mean, the earlier movies we did, they were able to set a date and a time and go. But these visual effects, and this movie is full of visual effects, far more than anybody realizes, we know, but studios don’t always realize that. I was actually making the picture, and they say, ‘Could we come out last April?’ And I said, ‘I can’t come out until next April. I mean, you guys are nuts.’ They said, ‘Can we try to make it this April?’ And I said, ‘It’s just not possible.’ That scene with the locusts, there were no locusts. It’s just them in front of a house. I mean, everyone’s acting like there are locusts, but we have to put all that in, and that’s multi layers of activity, and you just can’t do that [quickly]. They liked the movie, but they want to push them forward sometimes, and you can’t do that.”
The Reaping opens to theatres April 5th.
For the posters, trailer, stills and more movie info, go to The
Reaping Movie Page.
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