THE STORY Behind the Story ?????????????

1) WHY are fairly successful mid-career actors: Liu, Chilkis, Gugino, even Forster and Mako apearing in a rather low-budget vampire flick ?

Liu - Her Career is on the down-swing. She hasn't appeared in anything Live Action that was decent since Kill Bill (Animated movies because she has a distinctive asian voice) Domino was a flop and Lucky Number Slevin would have been the same without her in it...

Chilkis - On the Big Screen, besides the fantastic four movies he hasn't done anything or merit. Even then he didn't really have to act for The Thing as the makup covered most of his face...

Gugino - Who?!?! (Director's Girlfriend...)

Mako - Was dying of Cancer and taking bit parts to continue the craft he enjoyed...

Forster - Again, this guy has been doing crap movies...he too was in Lucky Number Slevin...




2) Who is Sebastien Guitterez ? And how does he get these actors ?

Sebastien Guitterez is a writer who specializes in great B-Movies...Snakes on a Plane...Gothika....This was his first real directing experience. Guessing he wrote a decent script...attracted actors to sign on and then decided to direct it himself, turning out this mess of a movie that we all sat through...Sam Raimi's GHost House Pictures Produced...maybe that's the connection.



3) Why does Lucy Liu do nudity at this point in her career ?

She'll be 40 this year...there's limit roles for people in her age group and possibly it is something she has to consider to continue to make movies. This movie was probably destined for the big screen as it is under the Raimi Ghost House Pictures label, they probably couldn't find a distributer to carry it...(See: The Cleaner with Sam. Jackson)


4) I just do NOT understand the economics of why this film would work ?

It doesn't work...that's why it went straight to video...

kinda simple actually, seems like nowadays anything goes, that's for starters. And secondly, if you checked the Executive Producer (Robert Tapert, the co creator of Evil Dead, Hercules the Legendary Journeys & Xena) is the co creator of Renascence Pictures, he might had been the one pulling out all the strings for the big names, plus he already knew Lucy Liu from Hercules, The legendary Journeys since she had a part in one of the episodes.



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1. There are many reasons: They could have been locked in multi-picture deals and they were meeting the requirements of the deal. Or, it could very well be possible that they read the script and actually liked the story enough to be willing to get involved (a majority of the film actors and actresses get involved because they happen to like the project they're getting involved with. And like all films made, good or bad, the first and foremost important thing is a good script. To quote George Clooney in the documentary, "Boffo! Tinseltown's Bombs and Blockbusters" (2006), "You can make a bad movie from a good script, but you can't make a good movie from a bad script."). And finally, the financial portion of things: They're doing it for the money. Those are the primary reasons for the majority. When it comes to Carla Gugino, she worked with Sebastein Guitterez previously before on his first film, "Judas Kiss" and on "She Creature." She may have enjoyed working with him the first time around to agree with working with him again.

2. He is a director, started off with "Judas Kiss" in 1998, "She Creature" (for the "Creatures Features" TV movie series produced by the late Stan Winston) and co-written "Snakes on a Plane" and the script for the Halle Berry film, "Gothka." He gets these actors through the use of a casting director, like all productions do.

3. It is not the first time she's done nudity in any film productions (she did a sex scene in the movie "Flypaper" in 1997). And at this point in her career, like many other actresses, she felt it was the best point to do nudity.

4. Of course you don't. Not even the people in Hollywood does. No one knows what's going to be a hit or a stinker, what's going to be a classic or have a cult following. No one does. Even people in the industry can tell you that. Why do you think a majority of film productions that exist nowadays are projects based on pre-existing work, such as comic books and novels? Simple: financial security and the possible draw of the pre-existing fanbase for the original work. Most often, Hollywood fears the risk of backing original films because there is no real way to know if it'll succeed or fail. But then again, just because a film utilizes a brand name doesn't always mean financial success (i.e. "Batman and Robin"). The point is, no one knows the economics of why this film would work or not work. If there was a way to know, then every movie that has been made that has failed wouldn't have failed.


But this one's eating my popcorn!

It's called "work". Look into it sometime. All actors need to work. Just because they've been in more successful movies doesn't mean their phones ring off the hook for blockbuster projects. Also they may have just liked the script or been friendly with the director or producers of Rise. Guigino, Forster and Mako (R.I.P.) are used to doing genre movies.

Theatrical releases are not the only way for actors to make money. Actors don't just make one movie then sit around waiting for checks and reading scripts. Many actors make more than one movie simultaneously, flying from one studio to another to film another movie, tv show, guest appearance on talk shows and specials etc. Lucy made three movies and a couple tv show appearances the same time this movie came out.

This movie was well-done for its budget. Not a great movie but well worth watching. I enjoyed it. Any chance I can get to see Lucy half-naked works for me.

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