Sci-Fi Film and Television Developments
Bunraku
05/09/08 -
Ron Perlman
will play the bad guy in Snoot Entertainment's hybrid martial-arts movie
Bunraku, which Guy Moshe is directing from his own script.
Japanese actors Gackt and Shun Sugata also have been cast in the
international-flavored movie, which features Josh Hartnett, Demi Moore,
Woody Harrelson, Scottish actor Kevin McKidd and Spanish actor Jordi
Molla. The film is set in a hyperstylized universe a la Sin City
and draws from a mixed bag of genres, including puppets, origami, comic
books, video games and German expressionism. It follows a drifter
(Hartnett) who teams with a samurai (Gackt) to take on an Eastern
European gang lord, played by Perlman.
04/15/08 - Demi Moore will star alongside Woody Harrelson in Bunraku, a fantastical independent movie from Snoot Entertainment. Written and directed by Guy Moshe, Bunraku follows a man on a revenge quest, who finds himself in an even bigger fight than he bargained for. The film is set in an original universe and draws from a mixed bag of genres, including puppets, origami, comic books, video games and German expressionism. Moore plays the enslaved concubine of a warlord who is forced to marry her captor. Harrelson plays a bartender. Snoot's Keith Calder and Jessica Wu, Nava Levin of Picturesque Films and Ram Bergman are producing, with shooting scheduled to take place in Europe.
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