Saturday afternoon at Kapow! saw Noel Clarke and Johannes Roberts (director of the impressive and underrated ) on a panel to talk about their latest sci-fi horror flick, .
The film - in which Clarke takes lead actor, writer and producer credits - sees a military cargo plane crash and spew its highly classified contents all over London. With all electricity down, a group of friends are trapped in a storage unit and it soon becomes clear they are not alone, as a terrifying predator is hunting them down.
The panel treated us to exclusive stills of huge explosions and wounded characters scrambling through air vents, as well as an exclusive clip, which gave the first look at the mysterious other-wordly creature tormenting the group. In the clip, Clarke’s character comes face-to-face with the alien – a 7-foot tall, bony monstrosity with bulging yellow eyes and a claw-like drooling mouth. As the alien closes in on a trapped Clarke, a yapping toy dog distracts him and Clarke is able to narrowly escape. The dog, sadly, isn’t so lucky.
For the look of the alien, Clarke was inspired by the Spider-Man villains Venom and Carnage. Unlike other creature features that keep the big nasty mostly off screen, Clarke and Roberts made a point of giving the creature a big personality and wanted him to be fully present as a terrifying being on screen. Roberts revealed that, to the cast, the alien was actually female and called Gertrude – something the Design Department really ran with, as Noel explained: “They made the suit with a huge vagina, and I saw it and was like, ‘That bit has got to go. This film is a 15.”
Talking about the film’s overriding genre, Roberts noted: “It’s very sci-fi. The whole movie is really retro – it almost borrows from and other '80s movies.” Despite these allusions, the panel went on to discuss Clarke’s desire to create something new, something that no one else is currently doing in the British film industry. There are obvious comparisons to 2011’s big-budget British alien horror but although it’s a similar genre, Clarke feels he has done something different with because of the disparity in budget. Clarke is keen to prove he can make entertaining big-spectacle movies to rival even Hollywood’s output of sci fi/horror, and for a fraction of the cost. Or, as Roberts neatly summed it up, “ is a f**k-sight better than .”
Talking about his upcoming projects, Clarke revealed that there are plans for a sequel to , currently being called . Both he and Roberts feel that his character and the creature are too good not to be used again. He’s also about to start writing the 4. 3. 2. 1 sequel - entitled 5. 4. 3. 2. 1 - but is refusing to give away any plot details just yet. On top of this he currently has six scripts on the go. His pace of work is impressive - last year he wrote three scripts in 55 days, and was one of them.
So it looks like you’d be mad to miss out on seeing when it hits U.K. cinemas on June 29. We’ll leave you with the same advice that Clarke gave to us when talking about the scariness of the film’s final scene – take a spare pair of pants.
Source : http://www.ign.com
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