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| Together Before
| Character | Actor |
| Von Wessel | Malcolm McDowell |
| Rachel | Elyse Levesque |
Directed by Robert Sigl
Written by Robert Sigl & Leo Gough
Fangoria 1/23/09
Director Robert Sigl sent along the scoop on his new feature The Spider, a
macabre tale of reincarnation and possession. With a planned start date of fall
2009, The Spider will center on Tom Giltrap, "a medical student from
California who travels to Istanbul, where his parents and his younger
archeologist sister Rachel have relocated Determined to liberate Rachel from the
grip of his dysfunctional parents, a true couple from hell, he instead unravels
a series of dark and terrible events. When an ancient tomb is unearthed and
desecrated, Rachel is possessed by the murderous spirit of a vengeful goddess.
Tom ultimately risks everything to save his sister from the spirit and from
their own demonic father, the reincarnation of an evil emperor."
The Spider, which is set to film in Istanbul and Manhattan,
has already managed to attract a load of talent. The iconic Malcolm McDowell
has
signed on to play "a Jesuit priest with a secret agenda," says Sigl,
while three-time Academy Award winner Howard Shore will take on composing
duties. Furthermore, casting director John Hubbard and Oscar-nominated special
FX supervisor Ian Wingrove have also agreed to take part in the film.
It seems Wingrove will have his work cut out for him as the
story plans to surreally move from the present into visions of the past.
"As our story takes us through modern Istanbul and at some point seamlessly
back into the ancient times of Emperor Constantine the Great, who reigned from
324 until 337, the production design and the visual effects must contribute to
the overall strangeness our hero feels when he enters an unusual world,"
Sigl says. "In order to give the movie an almost mythical and mystical
soul, the effects should be as subtle as possible to create the perfect illusion
of everyday reality blending effortlessly into nightmarish visions of a former
life lived some 1700 years ago." Such sights will apparently include an
Istanbul alley suddenly mutating into the site of a Byzantine funeral
procession, and "a shapeshifting weaver woman literally melting into her
own tapestry before she gets hacked out again by the swords of Roman soldiers.
The Spider is a blend of black humor, occult horror and bizarre adventure
involving lots of sex and sacrilege," he continues. "Something for
everyone. I mean that in an ironic way, of course-as the story deals with
multiple taboos and themes such as child abuse and the shattering of religious
concepts, it could best be described as The Mummy meets The Da Vinci Code
through an X-rated Addams Family in Istanbul. A rather adult and twisted The
Mummy, that is, and it certainly is not a PG-13-rated Da Vinci Code
either."
1/18/09
A new pre-production start date will be announced soon which is estimated to be
sometime this July. They're going for an Autumn shoot in Istanbul.
4/3/08
The poster is released for the fifteen million dollar production shooting in
Turkey. Archaeology, demon possession, reincarnated emperors, it’s got it all.
Tom Giltrap, a medical student from California who travels to Istanbul, where his parents and his younger archeologist sister Rachel have relocated Determined to liberate Rachel from the grip of his dysfunctional parents, a true couple from hell, he instead unravels a series of dark and terrible events. When an ancient tomb is unearthed and desecrated, Rachel is possessed by the murderous spirit of a vengeful goddess. Tom ultimately risks everything to save his sister from the spirit and from their own demonic father, the reincarnation of an evil emperor.
1996 - Malcolm McDowell & Robert Sigl worked on Giga Shadow - Lexx Episode 1.4.
Archived 2009-10 Alex D. Thrawn for www.MalcolmMcDowell.net