Glass Eye Pix is pleased to announce that as of day
13 production on The Last Winter continues in the Arctic region
of Iceland, despite subzero temperatures, blizzards, un-seasonal rain,
winds of 40 knots and a lost negative only just recovered.
The Last Winter is the new project from writer-director
Larry Fessenden. The film is a supernatural thriller produced by Antidote
Films' Jeff Levy-Hinte (Thirteen, Laurel Canyon, High Art) and
Fessenden's Glass Eye Pix (The Roost, The Off Season). Fessenden's
past directing credits include No Telling, Habit, and Wendigo.
He penned The Last Winter with Robert Leaver.
The film boasts Fessenden's largest budget to date
and started production early March in Iceland in partnership with Zic
Zac Films (Nói albínói). Fessenden is very pleased to be working
with a knockout ensemble of actors headed by Ron Perlman (Hellboy,
City of Lost Children, Blade 2), James Le Gros (Near Dark, Phantasm
2) and Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights, The Brothers McMullen).
Additional cast includes Kevin Corrigan, Jamie Harrold, and Pato Hoffman,
Zach Gilford, and Joanne Shenandoah.
The story takes place in the Artic tundra of Northern
Alaska, where an advanced team working for a petroleum company is engaged
in a massive project to exploit the oil resources of the pristine land.
After one crew member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the
sanity of the other team members as each of them succumbs to a mysterious
fear.
Says Fessenden: "In the time-honored tradition of
horror films, The Last Winter was written as a cautionary fiction,
but with recent events it has become increasingly aligned with fact."
Our
sincere thanks to writer/director Mr Larry Fessenden for this information.
Ron with fellow actor James Le Gros, and Director Larry Fessenden.
