Just as Jeff nicknames his neighbors based on his observations, so does Patrick “Pat” Quid ( Stacy Keach) with his fellow travelers. “Jeff” Jeffries (James Stewart) observes through his titular rear window. These characters would become much like the neighbors that L.B. But Road Games has plenty of its own flavor, making it much more than a mere retread of either movie.īecause there was only one route through the Nullabor Plain in the Australian Outback, a person would encounter many of the same drivers along the way from Adelaide in the east to Perth in the west. In many ways, the final film is Rear Window meets Spielberg’s Duel (1971) with an interesting role reversal as we’re put in the seat of the truck rather than the smaller vehicle. After reading it, De Roche commented to Franklin, “wouldn’t it be interesting if Rear Window took place in a moving vehicle?” The two set out to fashion a script based on this intriguing idea. The idea for Road Games came about while Franklin was working on his second feature, Patrick (1978), and gave screenwriter Everett De Roche a copy of the script for Hitchcock’s classic film Rear Window (1954). Franklin’s style is more difficult to pinpoint than, say, Scorsese or DePalma’s, but it is no less effective in its narrative capabilities. Every good filmmaker has influences that they synthesize into their own style. This is not to say that Franklin’s work is derivative. Though Hitchcock is Franklin’s greatest influence, there is plenty of John Ford and Howard Hawks, along with contemporaries like John Carpenter and Steven Spielberg to be found in his style. He also learned the importance of adding healthy doses of humor along the way to make the suspense even more effective. Instead, he learned how to structure a story and effectively build a sense of dread from the Master of Suspense. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Franklin did not particularly emulate Hitchcock’s visual style. Richard Franklin has been called “The Australian Hitchcock” and 1981’s Road Games is the movie that earned him that title. I’m told visual effects, combining old and new, are only a couple shots from completion, and the sound design/musical score is underway! Stay tuned!! /RNw3KIVK7R What’s up with our ?… Thank you for your patience! On-set photo of touching up my Count Orlok makeup. “Stay tuned!!”Ĭheck out photos of Jones as Nosferatu below, shared as part of the 2018 Kickstarter. “I’m told visual effects, combining old and new, are only a couple shots from completion, and the sound design/musical score is underway,” Jones continued. “Thank you for your patience,” the actor began the tweet, sharing a photo from the set of the film. It’s been a few years since we’ve heard so much as a peep about the project, to the point that we had been wondering if it ever even found its way in front of the cameras.īut it seems it did, as Jones has taken to Twitter this week to provide an update. Murnau’s 1922 classic, using “a mixture of live-action combined with colorized digital backgrounds recreated from the original film.” The film was described as a “remix” of F.W. Announced back in 2016, David Lee Fisher was set to direct a new take on the horror classic Nosferatu, with Doug Jones ( Hellboy, The Shape of Water) set to star as Count Orlok.
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