Casting continues on the Nazi horror flick THE 4th REICH, about a group of soldiers who come up against a squad of invincible undead soldiers from hell (or something to that effect). The new face in the crowd is Jason Flemyng, according to the official site. Flemyng joins Sean Pertwee, Doug Bradley, Tom Savini, Axelle Carolyn, Craig Conway, Sebastian Street, Simon Bamford, Jay Sutherland, Patrick Toomey, and Clayton Fussell.
Flemyng should be familiar to movie fans for his work in diverse films like LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, DEEP RISING and FROM HELL. He was also the lead in George Romero’s BRUISER.
As for THE 4th REICH, here’s the sinister synopsis: June 1944, after the glorious victory on D-day, when the armies of the combined allied forces begin their long push to Berlin with the aim of bringing down Hitler and the despised Nazi regime of the Third Reich. But buried deep in secret files German Reichstag, is the chilling reality of Hitler’s plan to create an eternal living hell, The 4th Reich. Dr. Joseph Mengele, Hitler’s chief scientist, was charged with creating a new super army of invincible soldiers.
A force that would never be beaten. His experiments and research at the death camps of Auschwitz, Belsen and Birkenau would create unspeakable evil. A small brigade of soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division, under the command of the battle hardened Captain Bathurst embark on an ever darkening quest to liberate Europe. Fighting their way through the French countryside, villages and war ravaged towns. Each step discovering progressively strange battles and events until they reach an abandoned research facility where the true horror begins.
For more, give the Official Site a peek. Filming begins in April.