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The Movie: "Blood Red Sky"
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: You like Bram Stoker's "Dracula?" This is the Demeter's final voyage, on a plane, with terrorists. Simple as. Formerly titled "Transatlantic 473," this taut British-German horror film pairs director Peter Thorwarth with his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Stefan Holtz (the pair co-wrote the screenplay), to craft the most successful German film on Netflix to date.
The story goes that...
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The Movie: "Blood Red Sky"
Where You Can Stream It: Netflix
The Pitch: You like Bram Stoker's "Dracula?" This is the Demeter's final voyage, on a plane, with terrorists. Simple as. Formerly titled "Transatlantic 473," this taut British-German horror film pairs director Peter Thorwarth with his frequent collaborator, screenwriter Stefan Holtz (the pair co-wrote the screenplay), to craft the most successful German film on Netflix to date.
The story goes that...
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- 12/12/2021
- by Anya Stanley
- Slash Film
Coming to Netflix on July 23rd is Blood Red Sky, a compelling horror / thriller set on a passenger plane with some incredible performances and practical makeup effects! I recently had the opportunity to speak with director and co-written by Peter Thorwarth, who told me about the origins of this project, working with Peri Baumeister, and bringing the movie's vampire to life:
I wanted to start by learning more about the origins of this project. What sparked this idea for a horror movie set on a passenger flight?
It started when I was sitting on a transatlantic night flight. I was staring out the window and was thinking, "Okay, if I were a vampire, I’d have to organize myself, and take a night flight. When this gets hijacked, and the hijackers turn the plane around and fly backwards towards the rising sun, I have a problem."
Then I started thinking,...
I wanted to start by learning more about the origins of this project. What sparked this idea for a horror movie set on a passenger flight?
It started when I was sitting on a transatlantic night flight. I was staring out the window and was thinking, "Okay, if I were a vampire, I’d have to organize myself, and take a night flight. When this gets hijacked, and the hijackers turn the plane around and fly backwards towards the rising sun, I have a problem."
Then I started thinking,...
- 7/22/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
In the grand tradition of “Deep Rising” and “From Dusk Till Dawn,” Peter Thorwarth’s “Blood Red Sky” is a hijacking thriller that — at just the right moment — is suddenly hijacked itself, as the bad guys realize that they’re in a very different movie than the one for which they signed up. Except that “Blood Red Sky” doesn’t find just the right moment; this undercooked, overlong piece of genre-blurring German schlock hardly even seems to look for it. On the contrary, this midsummer Netflix release drops its big twist with all the panache of an incidental detail, one that requires too much backstory and offers too little excitement in return. And so what could’ve been a fun chimera that someone Frankensteined together from two wildly different films instead becomes
“Blood Red Sky” is an emergency mode from the minute it starts; we know that something went screwy...
“Blood Red Sky” is an emergency mode from the minute it starts; we know that something went screwy...
- 7/20/2021
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
Coming to Netflix on July 23rd, we have the brand new trailer for Blood Red Sky!
"Nadja and her ten-year-old son are on an overnight flight from Germany to New York when a group of terrorists violently take control of the plane and threaten the lives of the passengers. But the terrorists have no idea what they’re in for with Nadja on board – she has the power to protect her son and all the other passengers. But she faces an impossible choice - should she reveal her dark side and the inner monster she has kept hidden from her son for years in order to save him? The hunters become the hunted and everyone on the plane finds themselves in a perilous race against time – a fight for survival because there is one thing nobody knows: Nadja is the last vampire."
Directed by Peter Thorwarth, written by Peter Thorwarth and Stefan Holtz,...
"Nadja and her ten-year-old son are on an overnight flight from Germany to New York when a group of terrorists violently take control of the plane and threaten the lives of the passengers. But the terrorists have no idea what they’re in for with Nadja on board – she has the power to protect her son and all the other passengers. But she faces an impossible choice - should she reveal her dark side and the inner monster she has kept hidden from her son for years in order to save him? The hunters become the hunted and everyone on the plane finds themselves in a perilous race against time – a fight for survival because there is one thing nobody knows: Nadja is the last vampire."
Directed by Peter Thorwarth, written by Peter Thorwarth and Stefan Holtz,...
- 6/29/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The Prague shoot for Netflix’s German-English film “Transatlantic 473” has been temporarily shut down after an extra tested positive for Covid-19, Variety can reveal.
With the Czech Republic newly red-listed for travel by other European nations following a spike in infection rates — and quarantines now required for those arriving in the country — the shoot, produced by Germany’s Rat Pack and Czech shingle Sirena Film, has paused for two days, sources close to the show have told Variety. The cast and crew are being tested off-site while the extra has been isolated, but it’s understood that production is clear to resume on Monday.
Rat Pack and Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but Pavlina Zipkova of the Czech Film Commission confirmed the incident, adding that the pause will be “only a couple of days, max.”
A set of safety rules and practices have been adopted by...
With the Czech Republic newly red-listed for travel by other European nations following a spike in infection rates — and quarantines now required for those arriving in the country — the shoot, produced by Germany’s Rat Pack and Czech shingle Sirena Film, has paused for two days, sources close to the show have told Variety. The cast and crew are being tested off-site while the extra has been isolated, but it’s understood that production is clear to resume on Monday.
Rat Pack and Netflix did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but Pavlina Zipkova of the Czech Film Commission confirmed the incident, adding that the pause will be “only a couple of days, max.”
A set of safety rules and practices have been adopted by...
- 9/11/2020
- by Will Tizard
- Variety Film + TV
Cologne, Germany -- Twentieth Century Fox International Pictures (Fip) has picked former Studio Babelsberg boss Gabriela Bacher to run its new German production division.
Bacher, who briefly ran Babelsberg back in 2002, operates a consulting firm, Primary Pictures, which has often advised Fox in the past.
Bacher has a number of German projects in development, among them an adaptation of Robin Wasserman's teen thriller trilogy "Chasing Yesterday," about a girl who wakes up in a hospital with no idea who she is or how she got there.
Genre experts Peter Thorwarth and Stefan Holtz ("Bang Boom Bang") are co-writing a script that moves the action of the novels to modern-day Berlin. Thorwarth is in negotiations to direct.
Fox is also planning the simultaneous production of seven foreign-language remakes of wine tasting buddy movie "Sideways," with adaptations for Germany, Russia, Japan, India, Korea, Spain and Brazil.
Fip's German division also plans to...
Bacher, who briefly ran Babelsberg back in 2002, operates a consulting firm, Primary Pictures, which has often advised Fox in the past.
Bacher has a number of German projects in development, among them an adaptation of Robin Wasserman's teen thriller trilogy "Chasing Yesterday," about a girl who wakes up in a hospital with no idea who she is or how she got there.
Genre experts Peter Thorwarth and Stefan Holtz ("Bang Boom Bang") are co-writing a script that moves the action of the novels to modern-day Berlin. Thorwarth is in negotiations to direct.
Fox is also planning the simultaneous production of seven foreign-language remakes of wine tasting buddy movie "Sideways," with adaptations for Germany, Russia, Japan, India, Korea, Spain and Brazil.
Fip's German division also plans to...
- 6/25/2009
- by By Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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