Hostage Thriller 6 DAYS Moves To London, New Stills Now Online

Stills finally came pouring in exclusively via EW for director Toa Fraser's latest hostage thriller, 6 Days since pincipal photography began in New Zealand in June. The film follows up Fraser's most recent effort, The Dead Lands, which proved to be one of the most compelling films to date in his stellar career of award-winning feats.

Here and now, Fraser reunites with The Dead Lands scribe Glenn Standring for a story that grounds itself in the chaos of true events that took place in April 1980 when six armed gunmen engaged Britain's elite SAS in a six day standoff at the Iranian Embassy in 1980, taking 26 people hostage. Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish and Mark Strong lead the current cast for the film which has now begun its London shoot as of a few days ago.

Matthew Metcalfe is producing for General Film Corporation in associaition with international sales agent XYZ Films, Lip Sync Productions, Dog With a Bone Films and the Ingenious Senior Film Fund. The film will likely release next year with Icon releasing the film in the U.K. and WME co-representing the film for the U.S.

Fans and moviegoers alike can catch Bell among an ensemble cast for director Josh Trank's Marvel adaptation, Fantastic Four, this Friday. Stay tuned for more info.

Fraser's 6 DAYS Lands Its Cast!

Director Toa Fraser's Maori action epic, The Dead Lands, scored big with filmmakers and critics between now and late last year while the filmmaker has since moved on to other matters of creativity. One such matter has been the current development and pre-production of his new hostage drama, 6 Days, which was announced back in October.

With the new year now well underway, of course, filming is expected to commence this summer, and Deadline is offering a new report on the first names to headline the cast, which will include Jamie Bell, Abbie Cornish and Mark Strong. 6 Days reunites Fraser will The Dead Lands scribe Glenn Standring with all three actors set to star in the 1980-set story of the six gunmen who took over two dozen people hostage at the Iranian Embassy in Princes Gate, London, at the behest of Arab sovereignty, and the six days of intense drama and tragedy that unfolded before Britain's Special Air Service infiltrated the embassy, ending the crisis once and for all.

Fraser's The Dead Lands is certainly a film that carries some great intensity right down through the third act, which is telling of his work ethic and consistency of vision. As such, 6 Days sounds like something fans will surely enjoy with the cast and crew caliber at hand.

Matthew Metcalfe is producing the film with executive producers at XYZ Films who are selling the rights at Cannes while the UK maintains its distributional hold via Icon. Gavin Poolman of Apollo Media and Andrea Scarso of the Ingenious Senior Film Fund are also executive producing with Icon's Ian Dawson and Norman Humphrey. Lip Sync Productions’ Norman Merry is co-producing.

Bell is currently set to appear in Josh Trank's Fantastic Four reboot this August. Stay tuned for more info.

H/T: Deadline

Get A Look At Josh Trank's Rebooted FANT4STIC In The New Trailer

Well, in the weeks leading up to today's trailer for director Josh Trank's contribution to the Marvel movieverse rebooting Fantastic Four (or Fant4stic), plenty of blurbs and opinions have been tossed about online - some more cynical than most. But one thing is clear though: You have to admire the beauty in how material like this can be absorbed by someone with a different view of things, and right now, we're in an era where directors and studios are allowing themselves the advantage of taking films to generate different approaches. We see it all the time with the evolution of Batman and Superman on the big screen, and even our current topic at the moment which saw its first live-action approach back in an unofficially released Roger Corman production back in 1994.

Since then, the 2005 iteration drew some mixed reactions but did well enough for a sequel that included our first film appearance of the elusive Silver Surfer by way of actors Doug Jones and Lawrence Fishburne, which, in turn drew negative reviews but did well anyway; Not gonna lie, I enjoyed it and wondered if they would continue onto a third, but a remake seems nice enough to open a few minds for a new generation of comic book fans and movie goers however which way we choose. At any rate, Trank's previous effort in Chronicle was a pretty good one, and quite good enough to lend curiousity about how his vision would treat a live-action superhero movie. If a Fantastic Four reboot is the template, then by all means, go for it. The trailer is worth all the love it is getting this week, so check it out, and mark the date for August 7, 2015 to go see it. Miles Teller, Kate Mara, Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebell star.

SYNOPSIS:

THE FANTASTIC FOUR, a contemporary re-imagining of Marvel’s original and longest-running superhero team, centers on four young outsiders who teleport to an alternate and dangerous universe, which alters their physical form in shocking ways. Their lives irrevocably upended, the team must harness their daunting new abilities and work together to save Earth from a former friend turned enemy.