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The Temple of Skulls Trailer
Damn you gotta just love the guys from Asylum! It’s not Kingdom of the Crystal Skull… it’s TEMPLE of the Skulls! Yay!!! (thanks to James for the heads up)
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These guys must be making good money to keep cranking these out, more power to em.
I wonder how many lawsuits the majors throw at these guys? personally I’m all for it, i’m sure they have an amazing time making these.
Wow, they got a real train and everything! Look out Indy, here comes Allan Quatermain!!! (I especially like the spelling of ‘Allan’)
Interestingly enough, Allan Quatermain is the lead character of King Solomon’s Mines, a book which George Lucas has cited as an inspiration for Raiders of the Lost Ark. The book is fucking brilliant; this looks like typical bog-standard Asylum fare.
I was just thinking the trailer reminded me so much of that Richard Chamberlain/Sharon Stone movie, King Solomon’s Mines.
i think john should be working a finders fee deal here.
i would hazard a guess that roughly 20 percent of Asylum’s gross domestic going forward will come from us themovieblogites.
Is Transmorphers worth a rent? I keep hesitating on giving these guys a try…
Wow, there’s actually some money behind this one. Interesting.
From The Asylum website: Allan Quatermain and the Temple of Skulls – a retelling of the H. Rider Haggard classic novel King Solomon’s Mines. The character was originally made famous by veterans Stewart Granger and Richard Chamberlain.
I happen to know a couple of the filmmakers (not the Asylum producers, but the guys who actually put in the long hours). It looks like money was spent, but they actually had only about $10,000 in spending money, with five crew people, and five actors in South Africa, and only 9 shooting days! Another $50,000-$60,000 or so went to Visual Efx, probably another $10,000-$15,000 to color correct and post, and another 15,000 to airfaire, for a total of no more than $100,000 spent in all. It was only 9 weeks from when pre-production started until post-production was completed. They pulled off a miracle in getting this done so quick, looking this slick, and for dirt cheap. A handful of very talented guys who deserve to go places, working for basically no money! And this is actually one of the better Asylum movies I’ve seen.