By MCN Editor editor@moviecitynews.com

HORROR THRILLER STRIPPED SET TO BEGIN FILMING IN DALLAS IN JUNE

Posted Friday, May 4th, 2012 - Comments Off on HORROR THRILLER STRIPPED SET TO BEGIN FILMING IN DALLAS IN JUNE
Be Sociable, Share!

HORROR THRILLER “STRIPPED”
SET TO BEGIN FILMING
IN DALLAS, TEXAS, IN JUNE

CAST HEADLINED BY TIFFANY SHEPIS, MICHELLE
“BELLADONNA” SINCLAIR AND SAMRAT CHAKRABARTI

TEXAS-BASED FILMMAKING TALENT INCLUDES FARAH WHITE,
ADAM DIETRICH AND FRANK MOSLEY

DALLAS, TX (May 4, 2012)—Wildworks Productions announced that the horror thriller, STRIPPED, initially set to film two years ago in 2010, will begin principal photography in Dallas, Texas this June.
Directed by John Wildman from a script co-penned by Wildman and Justina Walford, the film will star the previously announced trio of popular horror film scream queen Tiffany Shepis (THE VIOLENT KIND, NIGHT OF THE DEMONS), adult film icon Michelle “Belladonna” Sinclair, who will make her mainstream feature film debut, and internationally accomplished actor Samrat Chakrabarti (THE WAITING CITY, KISSING COUSINS). The film also stars Michael Guarnera (“Desperate Housewives”, “Navy NCIS”).

The effort to get the film before cameras is headed by Executive Producers Ruth Mutch, noted Dallas International Film Festival patron and independent film producer (THE BROOKLYN BROTHERS BEAT THE BEST, PETER AND VANDY), and Debbi Berlin, the former Head of Theatrical Distribution and Publicity at Palisades Tartan. STRIPPED will be produced by the quartet of Wildman, Walford, Farah White and Adam Dietrich.

Aside from the shoot location, the production will have a distinct Texas flavor to it with the involvement of White, Dietrich and Frank Mosley. White, who also will star in the film, is familiar to Texas and film festival audiences both as a producer (HELLION, HOLD) and actress (EXTERMINATORS, THE FINAL). Dietrich is a multi-hyphenate as well with Art Director credits (CARRIED AWAY, THE GHOST OF GOODNIGHT LANE), Casting (WOLF, SILENT RED), and Acting credits (CARRIED AWAY, A NEIGHBORLY DINNER) among the various roles he has performed on film sets both behind and in front of the camera. Texas-based filmmaker and actor Frank Mosley (HOLD, WUSS) also joins the cast, which includes stage veteran Mark Hennessy.

STRIPPED is described as post-feminist horror, following the events surrounding a birthday outing with two brothers and a friend which turns into a horrific fight for survival after they become trapped in a house with a “family” of malevolent women.

Wildman gave credit to Mutch and White for “breathing new life” into the project, adding, “While many films and filmmakers go through longer periods and more difficult roads as they make their way to becoming a reality, it is rare when the entire cast and several people behind the scenes remain a part of the production after you’ve gone through such a significant delay. Justina and I were actually caught off-guard by the loyalty and enthusiasm this script and project has inspired with everyone involved in it.”

Wildman and Walford divide their time between Dallas (where he was the former Director of Press and PR for the Dallas IFF) and New York City, where he currently is the Senior Publicist at the Film Society of Lincoln Center and she owns and operates the charity website and events company Bare Naked Bake Sale. STRIPPED will mark Wildman’s feature film directing debut. Currently in pre-production, STRIPPED will film in locations throughout Dallas during the month of June.

Be Sociable, Share!

Posted in Movie City News, Press Releases | Comments Off on HORROR THRILLER STRIPPED SET TO BEGIN FILMING IN DALLAS IN JUNE

Comments are closed.

Quote Unquotesee all »

It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon