More Details and Directors Announced for Blanc/Biehn Productions’ Upcoming Projects
From the Press Release:
Jennifer Blanc-Biehn (Wrong Cops, “Dark Angel,” The Victim, Among Friends) will direct her husband, Michael Biehn, along with Evie Louise Tompson (The Call, Hidden in the Woods) in the sci-fi tinged thriller The Girl.
Brianne Davis (Among Friends, Jarhead, Prom Night) will direct The Night Visitor 2: Heather’s Story. “We are so excited since she understands the vision, having starred as the lead in The Night Visitor,” exclaims Blanc-Biehn. The story is based on Ruhmann’s characters in The Night Visitor (now in post-production) with a screenplay by twin brothers Bradley and Kevin Marcus, who also penned the script for The Night Visitor. In The Night Visitor 2: Heather’s Story, the sci-fi horror that plagued the Stevens family and their son, Ricky, in The Night Visitor was only the beginning. The family across the street discovers that their daughter, Heather, is having close encounters of her own kind, which leads to even more frightening revelations.
Actor Richard Gunn (“Dark Angel,” “Granite Flats”) will make his directorial debut with Night Maire. In the film a female director’s romance with her troubled leading man gets put to the test when they’re stranded in the middle of nowhere and stumble upon a seemingly innocent girl’s bed-and-breakfast and must deal with a supernatural secret beyond their wildest nightmares.
Barbara Stepansky (Final Recourse, Fugue, Hurt) will direct both Calls from Dead People and The Night Visitor 3. Stepansky’s work has been shortlisted for the Academy Awards, garnered the DGA Diversity Award and the Student Emmy, and won the USA Film Festival Award.
In Calls from Dead People, after the mysterious death of her husband, a woman receives a strange phone message from him from the beyond. She dives into solving his murder, thereby discovering a secret life he led outside of their marriage and putting herself in mortal danger.
In The Night Visitor 3, the “Phoenix Lights” sighting in the night sky over Phoenix, Arizona, transforms the life of a teenage girl, who starts to receive messages from extraterrestrial beings that give her hope to escape her abusive home environment. But will she really find a new existence, or is it just a hoax by a potential killer?
Patrick Rea (Nailbiter) will direct Get Back Joe. In the not-so distant future, a new technology allows its users to travel back in time using astral projection. Joe McCormick must attempt to travel to specific dates that have been blocked by the government in order to save his family.
Mark Gantt (The Bannen Way, Oceans Eleven, The Night Visitor) will direct Skipping Time. A man wakes up one day to discover he’s three years in the future with no memory of past events, only to find out that his wife and son have just been killed. The next morning he awakes one day earlier with only 12 hours to save their lives.
Lastly, The Night Visitor 4 should film in the spring of 2015 with more details to be announced soon.
“Lony was so moved by the collaboration with us on his story The Night Visitor,” says Blanc-Biehn, “he came up with more unique stories and is funding the deal into 2015. We couldn’t be more pleased by this awesome partnership.”
The business model of Blanc/Biehn Productions and Ruhmann focuses on blending together the horror and sci-fi genres with the creative empowerment of directors, writers, cast, and crew. Their goal is to provide an opportunity for filmmakers and creative talent alike… people who have a strong vision and stand strong. “Making supernatural films that have a backbone in reality is our intent,” says Ruhmann.
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