A while back it was announced that Director David Hackl's next flick would be 'Red Machine': The film is about - Two estranged brothers reuniting to their childhood home in the Alaskan wild. They set out on a two-day hike and are stalked by an unrelenting grizzly bear.. The flick stars Thomas Jane, James Marsden, Piper Perabo, Scott Glenn And Billy Bob Thornton..
Recently Billy Bob Thornton revealed some more details on the upcoming man vs. nature thriller, via his official website..
James Marsden (X-Men, Enchanted) and Thomas Jane (“Hung”, yes, and so good in The Mist) are a pair of estranged brothers who enter the wilderness. Marsden, fresh out of jail, is the ne’er-do-well who has come home to settle some unfinished business. Jane is the town sheriff who helps his fiancée track the local fauna. Their outing in the great white north takes off but goes horribly south when they are attacked, then relentlessly pursued by a monstrous and seriously territorial grizzly bear. This is clearly not Yogi Bear or Gentle Ben territory because this particular specimen of Ursus arctos horribilis goes by the nickname "Red Machine."
Thornton plays Douglass, an Alaskan bear tracker whom James Marsden describes as much like Robert Shaw’s Quint character in Jaws. Douglass ain’t quite right in the head, but he knows that bears do more than you-know-what in the woods. The cast includes Adam Beach (Cowboys and Aliens), Scott Glenn (“You spook easily, Starling?”), Kelly Curran (“How I Met Your Mother”), and Michaela McManus (“The Vampire Diaries”). Piper Perabo (The Prestige) plays Thomas Jane’s fiancée, a wilderness-savvy photographer whose ability to survive the escalating danger may be hampered by the fact that she is deaf.
Billy Bob Thornton goes on to describe his character as someone who gets to "Ride a horse, hunt a bear, mysterious (sic) appear and disappear in the woods."
The flick is Written By: J.R. Reher And Rick Cleveland - Directed By: David Hackl.. Red Machine is currently in post-production in Vancouver...
(Source: Arrow In The Head.com)
