Over a year ago I told you that French madman Xavier Gens (FRONTIERES, HITMAN) was planning on doing a different kind of cannibal flick, this one to be set way back in the 1700s! I don’t know about you, but I love the idea of a historical horror film – we don’t get too many of them, and when we do, it turns out to be something like VAN HELSING (okay, it’s arguable how “historical” that is, but you know what I mean). Slap on top of that the above image, which is early artwork for Gens’ movie (which I believe is titled VANIKORO, after one of the ships). If I could see that on the big screen in a movie about cannibals, I’d be a happy man to say the least.
Here’s what Gens himself has said about the project: “It’s an Historic movie about a shipwreck in the 18th century – where the survivor falls on an island inhabited by tribes of cannibals. It’s between Peter Jackson’s King Kong and Peter Weir’s “Master and Commander”.
While I honestly didn’t like FRONTIERE(S) or HITMAN, I’m still damned intrigued by this project. What say you, this tickle your fancy at all?
Hitman femme fatale (and current Bond girl) Olga Kurylenko…