Though it is not yet listed on the Mandrill Films website word is beginning to trickle out about their latest starring vehicle for Chilean martial artist Marko Zaror. Zaror has re-teamed with Kiltro director Ernesto Diaz to create Mirageman, in which he plays a security guard who foils a robbery while masked to protect his identity and thus keep him safe from later reprisal. When word of his actions hit the news it inspires some degree of improvement in a young, mentally disabled boy he is close to and so he decides to don the mask full time, becoming the masked crime fighter Mirageman.
During the American Film Market at the beginning of this month I ran into Zaror and producer Derek Rundell completely by chance and the duo were toting around a sample reel of footage from their new film, which had completed shooting just three days before. So what they showed me was totally raw - no finished sound design, no color correction, no nothing - but looked very impressive. Zaror, impossibly, seems to have gotten even faster since shooting Kiltro in which he was already far too fast and agile for such a big man. There are zero wires in this, zero CGI, so the action is much more raw. According to Zaror they often didn't even pull their punches. It's a bit of an unusual beast style wise, fusing the typical South American verite style with a bit of a 70's low budget Hong Kong chopsocky feel and, yeah, the mask and premise are pretty goofy but in pretty much exactly the right way.
We've been promised footage and stills to show you all in the near future, but in the meanwhile you can take a gander at the first released stills here.