When I interviewed director Jonathan King last summer while he was promoting his killer-sheep epic BLACK SHEEP (relive the magic HERE), he told me his follow-up film would be something called UNDER THE MOUNTAIN, which he in essence described as THE THING for teens. It’s been quite some time since then without much word on the project, but finally things seem moving forward…
According to IMDB (grain of salt time), Sam Neill, Oliver Driver, Sophie McBride, Tom Cameron, and Leon Wadham are all part of the cast. Many of the cast members – with the exception of Neill, of course – don’t have any other credits to their names, so I’m guessing they’re on the young side.
IMDB also provides this synopsis: Teenage twins battle dark forces hidden beneath Auckland’s volcanoes. You’d expect the forces underneath a volcano to be mellow!
Shooting is currently underway in New Zealand.
Neill is on a show called THE TUDORS with this chick, Natalie Dormer. I’m like an “Awesome Babe” detective…