The upcoming feature, the first under a partnership with U.K.-based 108 Media and being sold in Cannes, marks Proyas' return to his indie roots.
The production, which comes with an estimated budget of $35 million, is based on an original script by Proyas and will be shot in his home base of Australia in late-2022 into mid-2023, using a fully virtual production process specially developed and refined by his VFX studio Heretic Foundation, which has been in operation since 2020.
“We are excited to be embarking with 108 Media on what we genuinely believe will be the first step of a long and fruitful journey together,” says Proyas. “will be a milestone in the use of virtual production at this scale, and Heretic’s talented team will allow us to establish production values at much higher levels in this budget range than ever before thought achievable. This is the future of filmmaking.
The multi-faceted deal was struck and negotiated by 108 Media’s CEO Abhi Rastogi and president of production Justin Deimen, supported by acquisitions director Rod Smith and legal counsel Steven Rosser, with Heretic Foundation CEO and creative director Alex Proyas, general manager and executive producer Andrew Robinson, studio producer Erasmo Raimundo and Craig Emmanuel of Paul Hastings in Los Angeles.
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