{"id":7401,"date":"2010-05-09T13:57:56","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T02:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2010-05-10T09:52:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T22:52:55","slug":"what-lurks-beneath-the-bleak-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/05\/09\/what-lurks-beneath-the-bleak-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"What Lurks Beneath the Bleak Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One thing’s for sure — answering that question is going to be an exciting ride. Anything that uses Friedrich Nietzsche’s scarily evocation quotation as its tagline certainly gets my stamp of approval!<\/p>\n

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Bleak Sea<\/em> is an in-development undersea monster film from Italian filmmaker Giacomo Cimini. A rather spectacular trailer for the film has been made, based on a concept that won the Trailermade 2010 competition<\/a>. As you will see, the trailer has its own unique, fully professional look and is extremely well produced, boding well for the development of the full-length film itself. The trailer will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in just a few days time, and I suspect it won’t be ignored by backers and agents attending the film festival looking for the next big thing.<\/p>\n

Synopsis<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

At the height of the Cold War, in the depths of the North Sea, a British submarine in search of an elusive Soviet weapon will find a far more terrifying enemy lurking in the deep.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trailer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Produced by Cimini and Tommaso Colognese, the film project has a scriptwriter on board (Stavros Pamballis, who co-wrote Shirley Adams<\/em> in 2009). The trailer was shot during the March just past, and featured some excellent actors — Vincent Regan (300<\/em>, Troy<\/em>, Clash of the Titans<\/em>), Samuel Roukin (Happy Go Lucky<\/em>, Bright Star<\/em>, Solomon Kane<\/em>) and Robert Sheehan (Red Riding<\/em>, The Misfits<\/em>, The Season of the Witch<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Cimini has confirmed to Undead Backbrain that the film will definitely be a full-length feature film with a plot that focuses around a giant monster — a monster that plays a big<\/em> part in events. At this stage, however, Cimini is reluctant to make things clearer. Instead he has dropped, J.J. Abrams-style, a few clues into the trailer and onto the cover of the magazine that is being read by a crew member (which you can examine in detail below — just click on the image to enlarge — but be warned: the “clues” aren’t the obvious ones!). He hopes fans will be intrigued by the mystery and follow it into production as, bit by bit, he expands on the existing clues.<\/p>\n

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And keep a watch out on Undead Backbrain for more developments and more information as the production proceeds!<\/p>\n

The Director: Giacomo Cimini<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Cimini currently lives in London and directed his first feature film, the micro-budget horror Red Riding Hood,<\/em> in 2003 when he was 25. <\/span>He went on to direct the TV series \u201cDelitti\u201d for Fox Italy before completing an MA in Filmmaking at the London Film School. His latest sci-fi short film, La Citta’ nel Cielo<\/em> (City in the Sky, 2009) premiered at the 66th Venice Film Festival (see the opening of it below). He was recently selected for the 2010 Berlin Talent Campus.<\/span><\/p>\n

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