You've got to give it to Robert Rodriguez: He doesn't love trash ironically. Not for one second does the director of From Dusk Till Dawn, Planet Terror and the Machete series seem guilty about his pleasures. Matador, the flagship drama on El Rey, a new genre-driven cable channel he cofounded with FactoryMade Ventures and Univision, is a case in point. The opening credits of this spy drama might set off your too-many-cooks alarm bells: Roberto Orci, Dan Dworkin, Jay Beattie and Andrew Orci all masterminded it, apparently.But the show still feels like a Rodriguez production. It's all explosions and gunplay and power walks and fast cutting and unmotivated slow-motion and sudden killings that are there just to keep audiences from getting complacent, plus cynical banter that's snapped off quickly, so that you don't notice how lamely written it is. ("You should see the other guy," quips a jailhouse...
- 7/15/2014
- by Matt Zoller Seitz
- Vulture
The 20-day shoot has wrapped on New Artists Alliance and XLrator Media’s psychological sci-fi starring Brandon Routh, Dane Cook and Caity Lotz from UK hit The Machine.
Ben Feldman, Tom Cavanagh and Grant Bowler also star in writer-director Matt Osterman’s story of astronauts on a simulated voyage to a distant planet designed to test psychological effects of deep space travel.
When the crew’s mental state begins to deteriorate they are forced to escape the vessel and learn they may not be in a simulation after all.
Rounding out the key cast are Fernanda Romero, Sally Pressman, Dominic Bogart and Frank Ashmore.
“Matt has penned a mind-bending screenplay that reminds us why we make movies to begin with,” said Naa partner Gabriel Cowan, who expects to announce an international sales agent shortly.
“Its complete sense of awe, mystery and character grabbed us right away. And the crazy reality is that Nasa and the European Space Agency...
Ben Feldman, Tom Cavanagh and Grant Bowler also star in writer-director Matt Osterman’s story of astronauts on a simulated voyage to a distant planet designed to test psychological effects of deep space travel.
When the crew’s mental state begins to deteriorate they are forced to escape the vessel and learn they may not be in a simulation after all.
Rounding out the key cast are Fernanda Romero, Sally Pressman, Dominic Bogart and Frank Ashmore.
“Matt has penned a mind-bending screenplay that reminds us why we make movies to begin with,” said Naa partner Gabriel Cowan, who expects to announce an international sales agent shortly.
“Its complete sense of awe, mystery and character grabbed us right away. And the crazy reality is that Nasa and the European Space Agency...
- 6/24/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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