{"id":12726,"date":"2012-10-10T07:38:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=12726"},"modified":"2012-10-10T07:38:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:38:21","slug":"first-details-biomass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/first-details-biomass\/","title":{"rendered":"First Details: Biomass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassBanner0041.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-12728 aligncenter\" title=\"BiomassBanner0041\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassBanner0041.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassBanner0041.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassBanner0041-300x86.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what do we know about <em>Biomass<\/em>?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s an independent film made in New Mexico, written and directed by Anthony Riazzi, who is best known in the film industry as digital and visual effects supervisor for <em>X-Men: The Last Stand<\/em>\u00a0 and <em>Resident Evil: Extinction<\/em>, and technical director for <em>The Matrix Revolutions<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>Biomass<\/em> is a creature-based SF-horror feature film centered around a highly secretive government research facility that suffers a containment breach when a genetically engineered new lifeform escapes into the outside world, bringing with it a catastrophic bio-disaster.<\/li>\n<li>The titular creature is a largish monster (see below for a conceptual image of the creature).<\/li>\n<li>The film also features zombies, presumably the result some sort of contagion carried by the monster.<\/li>\n<li>The New Mexican cast includes Juliet Lopez, Brenden Wedner, Matt Page and Alejandro Montoya Marin. Additional cast includes Steve Cormier, Katalina Parrish, Zach Dulin, Matt Berlin and Nomar Rizo.<\/li>\n<li>It is co-produced by Riazzi and former Disney executive, Alicia J. Keyes, who will be producing under her banner, AJK Films.<\/li>\n<li>It is currently in post-production.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here is a conceptual image of the creature (hard to see, I know, but it is certainly suggestive):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassCreatureConcept.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-12729 aligncenter\" title=\"BiomassCreatureConcept\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassCreatureConcept.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassCreatureConcept.jpg 800w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/BiomassCreatureConcept-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Zombies? Check out this pre-release poster:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biomass_portrait.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12727 aligncenter\" title=\"biomass_portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biomass_portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"494\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biomass_portrait.jpg 494w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/biomass_portrait-296x300.jpg 296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More on this to come very shortly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/biomassmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Official website<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/8fkmtpu\" target=\"_blank\">Press Release<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/santafe.org\/Visiting_Santa_Fe\/About_Santa_Fe\/Films_in_New_Mexico\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe Travel site<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Biomass\/217868771613101\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page<\/a>. Research: Avery Guerra. Written by Robert Hood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what do we know about Biomass? It&#8217;s an independent film made in New Mexico, written and directed by Anthony Riazzi, who is best known in the film industry as digital and visual effects supervisor for X-Men: The Last Stand\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2012\/10\/10\/first-details-biomass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,26,91,104,3],"tags":[1144,1142,1143,1420],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12731,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12726\/revisions\/12731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}