The House Of The Dead 2

 The House Of The Dead 2

The House of the Dead (2003) 

Release Date: Spring, 2003 (tentative; depending upon the distributor that picks it up)

MPAA Rating: Nothing's official until the MPAA sees the final cut, but Mindfire is aiming for a hard R for violence/gore/etc. 

Distributor: Currently seeking distribution in the USA. It's very possible it will be distributed by Regent Entertainment. At one point, DreamWorks had the rights to the HOTD franchise. 

Production Company: Mindfire Entertainment (The Specials, Free Enterprise) (specifically, this falls under their new Mindfire Millennium, which will specialize in adapting games and comics; their second game-to-movie project will be DOA: The Movie)

Cast: Jurgen Prochnow (Kirk), Clint Howard (Salish), Jonathan Cherry (Rudy), Ellie Cornell (Casper), Michael Eklund, Ona Grauer (Alicia), Tyron Leitso (Simon), Enuka Okuma (Karma), David Palffy, Will Sanderson (Greg), Sonya Salomma (Cynthia) 

Cast Notes: (9/18/01) Mindfire is casting both "up-and-coming actors along with established Hollywood talent" (Hollywood Reporter). There will be elements from the games in the movie, but probably not the human characters. (4/26/02) Well, thus far, the actors that have been announced look like they're the "up-and-coming actors"... who's going to be the "established talent"? (5/12/02) That would be European genre veteran Jurgen Prochnow (Dune, The Keep) and Clint Howard, the character actor (Austin Powers, The Grinch) brother of director Ron Howard. 

Director: Uwe Boll (theatrical debut, in the U.S., at least, of the German-born director of direct-to-video projects like Sanctimony and Blackwoods)

Director Note: Back when this project was in development at DreamWorks, Jesse Dylan (How High) was in talks to direct. 

Screenwriters: Mark A. Altman (cowriter of Free Enterprise), Dave Parker (1999's The Dead Hate the Living)

Screenwriter Note: Back when this was in development at DreamWorks, there was a script by Mark Verheiden (Timecop). Verheiden's script was set in a small college town where a house of "goth kids" was actually the home of a zombie horde. After a series of murders, a band of "nerdy necro-warriors" strike back to avenge their friends. No, that doesn't sound anything like any of the video games. 

Based upon: This film is a prequel to the popular trilogy of Sega zombie video games. There will be a fourth Sega game based on this movie, also to be released in early 2003, that will be inspired by this movie. Mindfire is hoping this will be the first of a trilogy of films (in addition to inspiring a TV series). 

Premise: Set on an island off the coast of Florida, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a Coast Guard officer. Soon, they discover that their X-laced escapades are to be interrupted by zombies and monsters that attack them on the ground, from the air, and in the sea, ruled by an evil entity in the House of the Dead... (source: The Hollywood Reporter, 9/18/01) (Prochnow plays the sea captain of the boat that takes the kids to the island.)

Tone Note: (9/18/01) Although the premise as reported by THR (see below) sounds like it fits snugly in that teen-friendly Scream-ish "quasi-horror" genre, screenwriter Mark A. Altman wrote in to AICN a few months ago (after Harry Knowles wrote a post observing the same thing), swearing up and down that it's absolutely not like Scream. Ok... but the problem here is that the Michael Fleming story that started all this didn't give the premise at all. In other words, we've got a writer saying one thing, and then 11 months later, the plot still sounds like the opposite. The House of the Dead is so easy... all you really need is a house, and the dead. That's all the games have... why do you need all this other stuff? (yes, I know there's more in the game than just a house and the dead... I was being facetious.)

Filming: Production started on April 29th, 2002 (first scheduled for mid-January) in Vancouver on a budget of $12 million, and is expected to last ten weeks. 

Genres: Action, Horror, Supernatural, Teen, Thriller 

Official Press Release: MindfireEntertainment.com

Official Game Site: Sega.com

Official Production Company Site: Mindfire Entertainment

Official Site: 

House-of-the-Dead.com

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System Requirements
OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/xp (tester on win7 work)
Pentium II 233 MHz or higher
32MB RAM or higher
600MB free Hard Drive space for installation
8x or higher CD-ROM Drive
Compatible Direct3D Graphics Board with 4MB Video RAM or higher
Compatible DirectSound Sound Board

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