Spotlight Films Announces Deals On Luke Goss Thriller ‘Pressed’
Spotlight Films sales chief Jack Campbell has closed a slew of deals on the Luke Goss action thriller Pressed.
Rights went to G2 in the UK, HOM for Benelux, Big Movie for CIS, Playarte for Brazil, Cinematic Vision for Scandinavia, Eagle for the Middle East and Prorom for Romania.
The story follows an out-of-work investment banker who gets involved in a drug deal that goes awry.
Read More411Mania Interview With Luke Goss
Posted by Jeffrey Harris
Saturday April 30th, 2011
The star of Blade 2 and Hellboy 2 checks in with 411mania.com for an exclusive interview to talk about his new movie Blood Out.
Actor Luke Goss burst into theatres in 2002 in Blade 2, where he portrayed the reaper vampire Nomak to battle Wesley Snipes as Blade. Goss would later appear in the action-comedy The Man starring Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy and more recently as Frankenstein in Death Race 2 and Steve Fox in the live action movie for Tekken based on the hit videogame franchise. His new starring role is in the movie Blood Out which also stars Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones, 50 Cent, and AnnaLynne McCord. Goss plays a small town sheriff trying to get to the bottom of his brother’s death. Goss took time out of his schedule to speak with us last week about his career and the new movie:
Jeffrey Harris: What can you tell us about your role in Blood Out and the great group of talent in the movie including Val Kilmer, Vinnie Jones, 50 Cent, and Anna-Lynne McCord?
Luke Goss: Yeah it’s a good bunch of people. It was one of those movies where everyone in the cast and the crew knew what we were getting into . . . it was going to be guerrilla style in the sense that we were trying to shoot not much over two weeks. I think sixteen, seventeen shoot days, something like that; pretty quick . . . It was a lot to pull off in a short amount of time. I think we pulled out a cool, little movie.
Read MoreLuke Goss and Danny Trejo Talk Death Race 2
io9.com’s Meredith Woerner recently spoke to Luke Goss and Danny Trejo about the great ‘prequel’ movie Death Race 2…
Death Race 2, the prequel to Jason Statham’s Death Race reboot, is on DVD. We chatted up two of the movie’s stars, Danny Trejo and Luke Goss, and they promised the new movie will crank the insanity up to maximum.
Luke Goss:
There’s David Carradine’s Frankenstein, there’s Jason Statham’s Frankenstein and then there’s your Frank — also called Luke. Where does he fit in with the proud legacy of Death Race drivers?
Frankenstein becomes a commodity on the prison of Terminal Island and on the TV show [Death Race]. Frankenstein is the star. But before Luke becomes Frankenstein, he’s working for Sean Bean’s character, Marcus, and he has a criminal record. But he didn’t kill anyone or anything like that. He prides himself on his morals, and he’s asked to compromise his ethics for a second and he pays a very big price for that [and is sentenced to Terminal Island]. It’s about the evolution of the original Frankenstein [in the new rebooted series pre-Staham]. But I think I’m doing more of a Carradine role than a Statham.
Everyone wants to know what line will top Joan Allen’s amazing “shit on the sidewalk” line from the last Death Race?
One of the lines I actually love is from Ving [Rhames]. I don’t want to ruin it… He delivers this line while one of the characters is kind of a mess on the floor… and he says something like “that’s a dumb bitch.” When the audience they saw it, they loved it. It’s the way he delivers it.
You guys used all the original cars from the Statham film, right?
We did. There’s kind of a misconception, I had nothing to do with calling it Death Race 2. I do believe that it would be better if it was called Frankenstein Begins, or something like that because it is a prequel. But yes, the cars are in it, they are the stars too. It was a deliberate choice, I know that some of them had been sold, so the producers had to track them down and bring them back. They’re pretty heavy, but the car I was driving is a beast. It sounds bloody gorgeous and it’s bloody fast. The Shelby Super Snake (it’s the yellowy one) — nothing touches it as far as speed and power. But the cars on the track they’re pretty brutal.
Did you do a lot of your own driving?
I did a lot — shit-loads of driving — in this film. I did all of the fighting too. I made sure, being a huge Steve McQueen fan so I wanted to make sure I had lots of footage in the car with the camera through the windshield with me, so people would know that I’m doing it. It’s easy to buy into the story when you know the person is actually doing it. So I did get to do some of the stunts.
How would you fix up your own car for Death Race?
Would I use my own car? [Laughs] I don’t know it’s quite shiny I think it would get a bit beaten up and dented. I’d have to put a lot of guns on it, or I’d be screwed. I drive a Porsche Carrera 4S. I think it’s cool, but I don’t know realistic it would be. But my own car, no I want to keep it shiny [Laughs].
If Death Race was a real TV show, would you watch it?
No. Statham’s version was poking fun at the extreme media, but it’s also cautionary. I would definitely not watch it. I guess that’s the fun part of movies you can make a cautionary message.
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