Stars: Max Deacon, Morfydd Clark, Ali Cook, Parker Sawyers, Tom Benedict Knight, Boris Ler, Adriana Randall | Written and Directed by Charles Barker
The debut feature of writer/director Charles Barker, The Call Up comes from producers Red & Black Films, the company behind the well-regarded UK sci-fi thriller The Machine, and tells a very timely story of the “evils” of video games and virtual reality…
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary next-level gaming experience, that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister...
The debut feature of writer/director Charles Barker, The Call Up comes from producers Red & Black Films, the company behind the well-regarded UK sci-fi thriller The Machine, and tells a very timely story of the “evils” of video games and virtual reality…
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist. Arriving at the test site, the group step into hi-tech gear and prepare for a revolutionary next-level gaming experience, that brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism. At first it’s a unique and exhilarating experience. But what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge technology quickly takes a turn for the sinister...
- 5/6/2016
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
New sci-fi thriller, The Call Up, is directed by Charles Barker from his own screenplay and is produced by red & Black Films who produced another fantastic slice of UK cyberpunk The Machine (review) a couple years back.
The film's Us sales rights were recently picked up by Altitude Films, and the film is expected to release worldwide in the second quarter of 2016.
Synopsis:
A group of online gamers are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality simulation.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) handles the lead role with Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Adriana Randall (Experimenter), Boris Ler ( [Continued ...]...
The film's Us sales rights were recently picked up by Altitude Films, and the film is expected to release worldwide in the second quarter of 2016.
Synopsis:
A group of online gamers are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality simulation.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) handles the lead role with Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Adriana Randall (Experimenter), Boris Ler ( [Continued ...]...
- 1/27/2016
- QuietEarth.us
Exclusive: UK, Australia, Japan also among key pacts for sci-fi starring Max Deacon.
Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for Charles Barker’s debut feature The Call Up.
Vertical Entertainment has picked up Us rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalised with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain and Gate 23 for Airlines.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight ([link...
Altitude Film Sales has secured distribution deals in a number of key territories for Charles Barker’s debut feature The Call Up.
Vertical Entertainment has picked up Us rights with Mongrel Media taking Canada. Deals were also finalised with Altitude Film Distribution for the UK, Nikkatsu for Japan, Defiant for Australia/New Zealand, Betta Pictures for Spain and Gate 23 for Airlines.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Max Deacon (Into The Storm) plays the lead role alongside Morfydd Clark (Pride And Prejudice and Zombies), Ali Cook (Kilo Two Bravo), Parker Sawyers (Southside With You), Tom Benedict Knight ([link...
- 1/13/2016
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
• Greg Kinnear, Jon Voight, Renee Zellweger, and Djimon Hounsou are set to star in Paramount Pictures' Same Kind of Different as Me, EW has confirmed. Michael Carney will make his directorial debut. He co-wrote the script with Alexander Foard and Ron Hall. Based on the book by Hall and Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent, the story follows an art dealer (Kinnear) who befriends a homeless man (Honsou) in order to save his marriage to his wife (Zellweger). The unexpected friendship takes the three on an incredible journey, and helps Hall reconnect with his father (Voight). Mary Parent and Cale Boyter...
- 10/29/2014
- by C. Molly Smith
- EW - Inside Movies
Into The Storm and Hatfields & McCoys actor Max Deacon has been cast in The Call Up, a British action/sci-fi pic set in the world of computer gaming technology. Written and directed by commercials helmer Charles Barker, The Call Up topped the 2011 Brit List of the best unproduced screenplays in the UK. The story follows a group of elite online gamers who each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game. The experience brings modern warfare to life with frightening realism, but what starts out like a dream encounter, quickly takes a turn for the sinister. EOne has Germany, France and Scandinavian rights with Altitude Film Sales handling international. Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Boris Ler (In The Land Of Blood And Honey), and newcomers Douggie McMeekin and Adriana Randall also star. Shooting begins November 10 in Birmingham,...
- 10/28/2014
- by Nancy Tartaglione
- Deadline
Stigma Films, Red & Black Films, Creative England, The Regional Growth Fund, Marzipan Productions, Pont Neuf Productions and Altitude Film Sales have announced principal photography will commence on the 10th November 2014 in Birmingham on action sci-fi The Call Up, set in the cutting edge future-now world of computer gaming technology. The movie is the debut featurefrom director Charles Barker – whose script for the film topped the Brit List (British Black List) in 2011 as the best unproduced screenplay of that year. His previous credits include award-winning campaigns for international brands such as Vodafone, Nokia and Wella as well as FX short, (Indecision), which was accepted into more than 60 film festivals all over the world.
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist.
Arriving at the test site, the group step...
When a group of elite online gamers each receive a mysterious invitation to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game, it’s a dream come true and impossible to resist.
Arriving at the test site, the group step...
- 10/28/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Brit List action-sci-fi to get underway on November 10; Max Deacon to star.
Principal photography is due to get underway on November 10 in Birmingham, UK, on Charles Barker’s action-sci-fi The Call Up.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Boris Ler (In the Land of Blood and Honey), and newcomers Douggie McMeekin and Adriana Randall.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma...
Principal photography is due to get underway on November 10 in Birmingham, UK, on Charles Barker’s action-sci-fi The Call Up.
Max Deacon (Into the Storm, Hatfields & McCoys) takes the lead role and is joined by a cast of up-and-comers including Morfydd Clark (Madame Bovary), Ali Cook (The Anomaly), Parker Sawyers (Monsters: Dark Continent), Tom Benedict Knight (Dracula Untold), Boris Ler (In the Land of Blood and Honey), and newcomers Douggie McMeekin and Adriana Randall.
The Call Up follows a group of online gamers who are invited to trial a state-of-the-art virtual reality game, but what starts out like a dream encounter with cutting edge video technology – a perfect representation of soldiers in a warzone – takes a turn for the sinister when the stakes are raised to fatal.
Directed by Charles Barker from his own Brit List screenplay, the film is produced by Matthew James Wilkinson (Stigma...
- 10/28/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
*full disclosure: an online screener of this film was provided by Studiocanal. Director: Paul Tanter. Writers: James Crow, Simon Phillips and Paul Tanter. Cast: Tom Benedict Knight, Simon Phillips, Christina Bellavia and Ewan Ross. Director Paul Tanter (Jack Falls) has reteamed with actor Simon Phillips for another action thriller. Their latest is called He Who Dares. This United Kingdom shot film focuses on the action, while the story comes across as a little simplistic. Still, it is hard to go wrong with a hostage situation, set two hundred feet below ground. Much of the action is caught with Tanter's use of quick cuts and edits, which helps amplify the violent tension onscreen. He Who Dares is a solid action film for those looking for some light entertainment. The film begins with the villain Holt (Phillips). Holt ambushes the daughter of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He hustles Alice (Christina Bellavia) deep below ground,...
- 4/10/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
To mark the release of He Who Dares on 7th April, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
Directed by Paul Tanter (The Rise And Fall Of The White Collar Hooligan) He Who Dares is the tense and brutal tale of six Sas soldiers called in to infiltrate a multi-storey building taken over by a gang of ruthless terrorists.
With the terrorists barricaded deep within the building, and holding the Prime Minister’s daughter hostage, the elite team of Sas troops are left with only one way in and one way out. With the odds of coming back out of the building alive stacked against them, their only option is to take the fifteen storey building one floor at a time in the hope of reaching the hostages before it’s too late.
Starring Tom Benedict Knight (Kick Ass-2), Ben Lloyd-Holmes (Skyfall), Simon Phillips (The Fall of...
Directed by Paul Tanter (The Rise And Fall Of The White Collar Hooligan) He Who Dares is the tense and brutal tale of six Sas soldiers called in to infiltrate a multi-storey building taken over by a gang of ruthless terrorists.
With the terrorists barricaded deep within the building, and holding the Prime Minister’s daughter hostage, the elite team of Sas troops are left with only one way in and one way out. With the odds of coming back out of the building alive stacked against them, their only option is to take the fifteen storey building one floor at a time in the hope of reaching the hostages before it’s too late.
Starring Tom Benedict Knight (Kick Ass-2), Ben Lloyd-Holmes (Skyfall), Simon Phillips (The Fall of...
- 4/3/2014
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
United Kingdom director Paul Tanter (Essex Boys Retribution) has been busy in the director's chair. Tanter is poised to direct at least three films for 2014, with more coming up in 2015. His latest is a solid action feature, involving kidnapping and terrorism, titled He Who Dares. Actors Tom Benedict Knight (Underbelly), Simon Phillips (Jack Falls) and Christina Bellavia star in this thriller. A premiere for the film is slated for Wednesday April 7th, 2014. The story begins with a group of terrorists. They kidnap the British Prime Minister's daughter and fortify themselves deep below ground. A group of commandos are sent in to rescue the hostages, but they find themselves in a battle for survival. Fans of action film can preview He Who Dares below. The film will see several United Kingdom based theatres in just a week. Release Date: April 7th, 2014 (UK, Limited Theatrical). Director: Paul Tanter. Writers: James Crow, Simon Phillips and Paul Tanter.
- 4/1/2014
- by noreply@blogger.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
A group of crack Sas officers have to capture a multi-storey car one floor at a time when a terrorist gang - led by the psychotic Holt (Simon Phillips) - capture the Prime Minister's daughter. They've rigged the car park with explosives and it's up to Sas leader Christopher Lowe (Tom Benedict Knight) to work out a way of getting to them. Action from Paul Tanter, geezer director of White Collar Hooligan.
- 3/10/2014
- Sky Movies
Obviously it’s not a good idea to kidnap the Prime Minister’s daughter when some badass Sas types are around to respond. Cause you know, being badasses, they’re probably doing to save the day. That’s just what they do. It’s probably no surprise that that’s exactly what happens in director Paul Tanter’s “He Who Dares”. Tanter is the writer/director of the “White Collar Hooligan” series, of which there are three at the moment. Who knew white collar hooliganism could be so lucrative? Check out the trailer for the actioner “He Who Dares” below. Looks like you’ll get some fisticuffs with your gunplay, which is never a bad thing. On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Ministers daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack Sas operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent...
- 10/25/2013
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
It’s The Raid meets Taken in this first trailer for Paul Tanter’s upcoming British action-thriller, He Who Dares.
We got a look at the first poster when it surfaced back in the spring. And we can now go one better with the first trailer to share, teasing plenty of action coming our way soon.
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Minister’s daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack Sas operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time.
Tom Benedict Knight (Kick-Ass 2) leads the cast alongside Simon Phillips (The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan), Christina Bellavia, Ewan Ross (The Fall of The Essex Boys), Ben Loyd-Holmes (Torchwood), Lorraine Stanley (London to Brighton), Kye Loren, and Zara Phythian (Alien Uprising).
Tanter (The Rise...
We got a look at the first poster when it surfaced back in the spring. And we can now go one better with the first trailer to share, teasing plenty of action coming our way soon.
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Minister’s daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack Sas operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time.
Tom Benedict Knight (Kick-Ass 2) leads the cast alongside Simon Phillips (The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan), Christina Bellavia, Ewan Ross (The Fall of The Essex Boys), Ben Loyd-Holmes (Torchwood), Lorraine Stanley (London to Brighton), Kye Loren, and Zara Phythian (Alien Uprising).
Tanter (The Rise...
- 10/24/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Four years ago, it was Alice Creed’s disappearance act that brought one of the most memorable crime-thrillers in recent memory to the big screen. Now production has wrapped on The Disappearance of Lenka Wood, and whilst the two films are related purely in so far as their names are similar, that similarity will somewhat inevitably lead to comparisons in the coming months.
With the New York- and Turkey-set, Taken-esque thriller officially wrapped, the first poster has been released, giving us a look at Petra Bryant making her feature debut as the eponymous Lenka Wood.
A New York couple’s honeymoon in Turkey is turned upside down when the wife is kidnapped. Her ex-military husband has to act quickly, and violently, to get her back alive.
Mark O’Neal (Wanted) stars opposite Bryant in the male lead, with Tom Benedict Knight (Kick-Ass 2), Akbar Kurtha (24), Anais Alvarado, Simon Phillips (Airborne...
With the New York- and Turkey-set, Taken-esque thriller officially wrapped, the first poster has been released, giving us a look at Petra Bryant making her feature debut as the eponymous Lenka Wood.
A New York couple’s honeymoon in Turkey is turned upside down when the wife is kidnapped. Her ex-military husband has to act quickly, and violently, to get her back alive.
Mark O’Neal (Wanted) stars opposite Bryant in the male lead, with Tom Benedict Knight (Kick-Ass 2), Akbar Kurtha (24), Anais Alvarado, Simon Phillips (Airborne...
- 10/4/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
He Who Dares, the latest film from Paul Tanter (The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan), has officially wrapped production. The movie is a British action thriller described as a cross between The Raid and Die Hard. And with a description like that, our interest is understandably piqued.
Due out at the end of the year, we’ve been given the first poster for He Who Dares to debut, bearing the slogan, ‘Fight. Kill. Win.’ Just the kind of sentiment you want from an action film.
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Minister’s daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack Sas operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time.
Tom Benedict Knight, Simon Phillips, Christina Bellavia, Ewan Ross, Ben Lloyd-Holmes, Zara Pythian, Kye Loren, and Lorraine Stanley star,...
Due out at the end of the year, we’ve been given the first poster for He Who Dares to debut, bearing the slogan, ‘Fight. Kill. Win.’ Just the kind of sentiment you want from an action film.
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Minister’s daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack Sas operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building one level at a time.
Tom Benedict Knight, Simon Phillips, Christina Bellavia, Ewan Ross, Ben Lloyd-Holmes, Zara Pythian, Kye Loren, and Lorraine Stanley star,...
- 3/15/2013
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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