I really enjoyed the script and just thought it would be a really fun thing to do. Lucas Neff: I just met with the director, Vince, and the writer, Luke, and we just hit it off. SCREAM: Lucas, how did you land the role as Joe and are you as big of a horror nerd as the character is or were a few slasher movie binge-watching sessions required? having screened at TriBeCa Film Festival this year, SCREAM caught up with leading couple, Lucas Neff and Caitlin Stasey, to talk all about making a horror nerd’s dreams come true and perfecting their deftness in dupery… Cue a shady character who promptly hands him a business card offering exactly what he’s looking for: a tailor-made terror package promising to bring all of his greatest fears to life. relates the tale of Joe, the ultimate horror hound who, no matter how hard he tries, just doesn’t find anything scary enough anymore. And now they’re coexisting harmoniously in my schedule, which I’m really, really thrilled about.The names Vincent Masciale and Luke Barnett will probably ring a bell for Funny or Die fans thanks to the duo’s viral parody videos such as “A Game of Thrones Halloween” and “The Walking Fred.” Whilst staying true to their comedy roots, serving up plenty of laughs in this, their feature debut, Fear, Inc., the film doesn’t hold back on the scares, providing a satisfyingly sinister spin on pretty much every horror movie you could think of.Īlready being hyped as Scream for the new generation, Fear, Inc. "When I came down here, I was worried I’d have a lot of downtime, but fortunately this came up perfectly. "Everything about it was funny – the language, the situations, it was perfect, and it fit into my style of humour," she says of the six-part series. Thomas encouraged Stasey to audition for the role of his character's ex-girlfriend and the rest is history. The pair met when the actress appeared on popular game show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation. Stasey is also involved in comedian Josh Thomas's upcoming ABC series Please Like Me. I hope I get to work with him late, late into my career." "He's like a mascot for positive thinking - it's nice to be around someone who reaffirms constantly that they love what they do, and anybody that loves something so much could never let you down. He has such enthusiasm," she says of the writer/director. "He's amazing, he's the single most generous man I've ever met in my life. Stasey is currently in the midst of filming her second collaboration with Beattie as a secondary lead in I, Frankenstein alongside Aaron Eckhart. I hope for the fans that they have something, even a television show, because people really did love it." But if they revisit the film in a couple of years and they use the next Australian starlet and the next Australian hunk, audiences have a limited loyalty so I think it'll be fine. "Whenever someone tells me that they've seen the film, I thank them profusely just because it makes me so happy. "By the time we all get together, we'll probably be 35 and too old to play the characters," says Stasey. Ashleigh Cummings, who played Robin, is currently appearing in ABC's Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Phoebe Tonkin (Fi) is one of the leads in US supernatural thriller series The Secret Circle and Lincoln Lewis (Kevin) has worked on various shows including SLiDE, Underbelly: Razor and the upcoming Tricky Business. Since Tomorrow's release almost two years ago, many of the film's young cast have gone on to build stable careers in the industry. Wish You Were Here filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith is currently developing a new version of the script. Omnilab Media managing director, Chris Mapp, told IF late last year that the company was still committed to the project - considering both film and television options. ![]() ![]() But the production was moved back into the development stage when Beattie signed on to write and direct graphic novel adaptation I, Frankenstein. ![]() In February 2011 it was announced that a sequel - also helmed by Beattie - would commence filming in September. Tomorrow, When the War Began, which was written and directed by Stuart Beattie, was the highest grossing Australian film of 2010, taking $13.48 million at the box office. Unfortunately for the Tomorrow series, I feel that for the actors that were in the first film, maybe our commitment to it is done." "You always hear things, you always hear that someone's writing it, that someone's putting it together," says Stasey. ![]() The actress, who won an IF Award for her performance as Ellie Linton in the adaptation of the best selling John Marsden novel, believes that if a second film does eventually go ahead, it may not feature the original cast members. Omnilab Media may remain committed to developing the sequel to 2010 blockbuster Tomorrow, When the War Began but the film's star, Caitlin Stasey, feels her involvement in the project is over.
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