Amongst one of the new wave of French filmmakers to test our gag reflexes and fortitude in sight of torture Xavier Gens, despite the debacle surrounding Hitman, has moved on and is in the scripting stages of his next film, the cannibal horror film Vanikoro. BloodyDisgusting got some details from the director as well as the first piece of conceptual art for the film. Notice the numerous bodies floating in the surf. Yummy. Tonight we're having barbecue!
... you can take a look at the first ever concept art from Gens' forthcoming Vanikoro, which has Philip Seymour Hoffman and Viggo Mortensen attached to star. Gens tells us shooting is to begin in New Zealand and Australia in 2010 as he is still working on the script that mixes the story of the Indianapolis S.S. with an island of hungry cannibals.The French explorer La Perouse, was wrecked on Vanikoro in 1788. The ship Boussole was destroyed on a reef along with most of the crew. The second ship Astrolabe was also wrecked, but survivors salvaged enough to build a small ship and sailed away. Two survivors remained on the island into the early 1800's.
Gens told us at the Toronto International Film Festival two years back that the crew will take on tiger sharks before landing on an island of cannibals.
Larger image after the break!
Thanks Brad.