DEAD OF NIGHT Movie Based on The Comics series "Dylan Dog"

DEAD OF NIGHT Movie Based on The Comics series "Dylan Dog"

I've been reading alot about "Dead of Night" and they have pictures of Taye Diggs and Brandon Routh in costume.

By YohonKalic - May 10, 2009 01:05 PM EST
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The movie, from Hyde Park Group and Platinum Studios, stars Superman Returns' Brandon Routh as Dylan, a reluctant "nightmare detective," or paranormal investigator, and his Superman co-star Sam Huntington as Marcus, Dylan's best friend, partner and the unfortunate victim of a supernatural crime. The movie also stars Journey to the Center of the Earth's Anita Briem as a mysterious woman who becomes Dylan's client, for whom Dylan investigates the murder of her father by what appears to be a werewolf.

The premise of the film is that vampires, werewolves and zombies really exist, though they escape notice by average citizens. Munroe is directing from a screenplay by Joshua Oppenheimer and Thomas Dean Donnelly (Sahara).

"The whole movie's sort of a really cool [mashup] of just sort of my favorite things," Munroe tells us at lunch. He adds: "It's a really fun buddy action movie that just happens to take place in the world of horror icons. And so there's a really strong sort of Men in Black angle, in the sense that there's a world that exists that we don't know about, and this film sort of exposes that a little bit."

Munroe—who makes his live-action feature-film directing debut with Dead of Night after helming the animated TMNT—adds that his goal was to put the fantastical into a real-world setting. "It was always the goal to kind of keep it as real as possible, I think," he says, adding: "If the movie's done right, you kind of walk out of the theater and you go, like, 'Oh, at that hot dog stand, that's where zombies work. And at this fast food place, this is where this happens.' Or 'The dock is where the werewolves ... live and work.' ... The goal was always to sort of ground it in reality as much as possible."

Hence today's setting, the rusting hulk of the empty power plant, still filled with floodwater from Hurricane Katrina, with its broken windows, decaying catwalks, rust-covered iron girders and inches-thick dust on the ground. Perfect for a couple of scenes we observe.

Dylan (Routh), dressed in his trademark black sport jacket and red shirt, and Marcus (Sam) are searching for a clue in the plant, which Dylan knows is the haunt of bad zombies. Here and there are piles of bones and skulls, the remnants of zombie meals. As Dylan stands with his back to a door, it cracks open and a massive creature (we won't describe him so as not to give away the spoiler secret) grabs him by the scruff of the neck and pulls him out of the room.

Later, the scene picks up with Routh engaging in hand-to-hand combat with the giant creature: Routh swings a pipe, appears to connect with the creature's jaw. Routh swings again; the creature blocks it, then head-butts Routh's Dylan, who staggers back onto a staircase leading up to a catwalk. Dylan/Routh kicks at the creature, who falls back. Dylan scrambles up the staircase; the creature has the pipe and swings it, but it clangs against an overhead pipe.

The fight (and scene) continues later as Dylan trades haymakers with the creature. Huntington's Marcus, meanwhile, engages the creature, only to be thrown over a railing. Does he live? Does he die? You'll have to see the movie.

As for us, we've been conscripted for a scene in which a creature falls to the ground only to be attacked by zombies. We've been caked in makeup and dressed in ripped and ratty clothing, smeared with (movie) mud and spritzed with water and K-Y Jelly for that appropriately filthy, gelatinous zombie look.

On cue, we crouch, stagger, snarl, drool, then lay into the creature from all sides, as if we're a pack of starving rats attacking a pork chop. It's more fun than it should be. Two takes and we're done, applause all around, then time for a few pictures with the creature and our fellow zombies.

Munroe is aware that he's got a lot to live up to with this movie. "It's such familiar territory in a lot of ways," he says. "[We're] not the first people at all to ... put vampires and werewolves in a movie. Or zombies. I like how we manage to fit in a lot of these creatures all within the same world, in the same universe, and I think ... the reality treatment is really something that I latched onto and I really like. ... If you were a zombie [and] could not eat human flesh or else you would turn into [an evil creature], how would you survive? And we have a scene that explains how you survive as a zombie. And we have ... how the vampires are existing, and how long werewolves have been [around]. And I like the idea of generations and how things change. Because that feels real, like real families would do that, and they would sort of evolve as they ... keep on living."

Stay tuned for more reports from the set of Dead of Night, which is still in production in New Orleans with an eye to a 2010 release.


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The image shows Taye Diggs as Vargas, the sleek and sinister leader of a family of vampires in the movie, which is based on the top-selling 1986 Italian comic-book series Dylan Dog by Tiziano Sclavi.




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YohonKalic
YohonKalic - 5/10/2009, 1:23 PM
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Well then... I guess I did this wrong, I thought I just sent in the info and a mod or site owner turned it into a real post... Fact is I've been looking into this, and I'm really liking everything I've seen so far, I just hope its not as bad as superman returns lol, and Taye Diggs in it so it could really be bad. I just hope its a cool dark action movie.

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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 5/11/2009, 8:11 AM
I ain't read the comic, but what ive read it looks like this movies gonna have class!

An i like ROUTHY too! ; )
LastSon1027
LastSon1027 - 5/11/2009, 8:23 AM
this will finally prove weather he can act or if he is just a christopher reeves impersonator.
YohonKalic
YohonKalic - 5/11/2009, 8:48 AM
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@LastSon1027

I don't know I mean he wasn't a bad actor in Superman returns, and just because that movie wasn't great doesn't mean it was his fault, but your right. I would like to see if he has what it takes to do do more then just look like Christopher Reeves

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Also thanks to whomever fixed my thread, it looks great.
GUNSMITH
GUNSMITH - 5/11/2009, 9:24 AM
HONESSTLLY HE CAN DO SUPERMAN, BUT HE NEEDS TO PLAY KENT WAY OVER THE TOP GEEKY AND THEY NEED TO FIX THE COSTUME, THE COLLAR WAS TOO HIGH AND THE S WAS WAY TOO SMALL..PIT HIM AGAINST DOOMSDAY OR DARKSIED, NOT THE EMOTIONAL CRAPOLA AND GIVING HIM MORE WEAKNESSES, LIKE THE SON HE NEVER KNEW HE HAD..CMON, HE'S THE MAN OF STEELE.
Inohaku
Inohaku - 5/11/2009, 10:27 AM
Routh has already proven he's a good actor. Looking forward to this film.
stargazer01
stargazer01 - 5/11/2009, 2:18 PM
"Routh has already proven he's a good actor. Looking forward to this film."

Agreed.
Loved him as Superman/Clark. The movie was a more dramatic and character-driven superhero film. It's not his fault he didn't get 'to punch anyone..'

Any way, CAN'T wait to see him as Dylan Dog in the movie. I've heard really good things about it. It sound pretty exciting.

This is the link to the Official Production Blog:
http://deadofnightmovie.wordpress.com/

And if you want to learn about Dylan Dog from the comics, here is the link to the Dylan Dog Case Files book (there is seven stories and more than 600 pages. It's great, I recommend it! And it's in English):

http://www.amazon.com/Dylan-Dog-Case-Files/dp/1595822062/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239693074&sr=8-1#
YohonKalic
YohonKalic - 5/11/2009, 2:40 PM
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@stargrazer

Yeah lol its not his fault he didn't get to punch anyone. thanks for the info and the links, once I get the hand of making threads, I hope to have much more info on the topic I post about. I think thats allot of problems with most the threads now, there just bare bones, no meat lol.

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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 5/11/2009, 2:40 PM
Cheers @ stargazer01 @ !!!
Aiiwolf
Aiiwolf - 5/11/2009, 3:42 PM
I like Brandon Routh. I want to go support him by seeing this film, he deserves to be pushed into better films.

I know people say "he didnt get to punch anyone in superman returns" but why would he punch anyone? lol I mean was Lex in a Body Armor suit? Or was there any super villians in this movie to punch? lol The way i see it if Superman punch a human he would be in jail for murder, the person's head would literally exploded or the person would die instantly lol uhaha.

Im just sick of using Lex, or human villians. If they decided to make another superman movie Im really hoping ofr a brainiac or doomsday. Something new. The problem is there was nothing new.
vonstallin
vonstallin - 5/12/2009, 7:06 AM
Cool !
MarkCassidy
MarkCassidy - 5/12/2009, 10:11 AM
Yep, I think Routh made a great Supes. I have actually seen him in another movie, he played a gay pornstar in Zack and Miri make a porno, he and Justin Long where the best things in it.
YohonKalic
YohonKalic - 5/12/2009, 10:54 AM
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@Rorschach01

Oh yeah your right. I forgot he was in that movie, him and Long did a really great job making you think they were gay.

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LEEE777
LEEE777 - 5/12/2009, 11:05 AM
I saw that too @ RORSCH @ Zack and Miri make a porno is well funny!!! : D

I think the only reason there's hate for ROUTH from fanboys is coz of SUPERMAN RETURNS! Fact is ROUTHS a perfect SUPERMAN and also a good actor!!! I wanna see him up against DOOMIE on the big screen!!! Oh yeahhhhh!! ; )
stargazer01
stargazer01 - 5/12/2009, 2:55 PM
@LEEE777
"Cheers @ stargazer01 @ !!"

Thanks! :)


"I think the only reason there's hate for ROUTH from fanboys is coz of SUPERMAN RETURNS"

Actually, a lot of those fanboys who hate him is because he was cast as Superman in a big hollywood movie instead of Welling... yup, some people will never get over it. Personally, I think he was inspired casting. He embodies Superman perfectly on and off the screen. If you've followed his career you'll know what a nice and charitable person he really is.

Check this recent interview please:
http://thinkmcflythink.squarespace.com/movie-news/2009/5/1/an-exclusive-interview-with-the-driving-force-behind-bringin.html

And this blog:
http://deadofnightmovie.wordpress.com/2009/05/03/on-being-the-fall-guy/#comments




akthunder
akthunder - 5/25/2009, 6:30 PM
Brandon Routh in a new movie! About time. The work hes done since Superman hasnt been too impressive. I like him but I couldnt stand watching that movie about sex, whats it called? Oh yea fling. ugh
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