After a long fallow period it's looking like the coming years will be busy ones for cult director Richard Stanley. Not only is his classic Hardware finally getting a DVD release but there are ongoing rumblings that he'll soon be shooting a film for Brian Yuzna's Komodo Films in Indonesia and the listing for his abandoned project The Bones Of The Earth is showing it as active once again. But before either of those, Stanley will be returning to another abandoned project, this one being the thriller Vacation - a film that was originally written with Bruce Campbell in mind to star. It won't be Campbell in the lead but instead you get to take your choice of Supermen. A few sites out there are reporting this as moving ahead with Smallville's Tom Welling in the lead but apparently the actual lead with be Lois and Clark's Dean Cain. Either way they're not exactly getting big time movie star name recognition but I'd much rather see Cain than Welling.
Vacation is the story of a coke-addicted banker who travels with his stripper girlfriend to a seedy Middle Eastern resort. Their own personal problems soon pale before the disaster that strikes in the form of freak solar storms that eradicate all means of communication, leaving them stranded in an extremely hostile environment.
YAY!!!!
It´s about time Stanley got back into the director´s chair. It´ll be interesting to see if he still got it.
I love Richard Stanley and I'm glad to see him working, but Dean Cain?
I'll take as much Stanley as I can get. Yes please.
Dean Cain often surprises me - he's excellent in Carl Franklin's underrated OUT OF TIME, and very good in the low-low budgeter LOST, which he almost carries by himself (literally - it's a lot of him in a car talking with a roadside assistance operator over the phone - I know, sounds ridiculous, but it works quite nicely).
Did I just die and go to heaven? I thought I would never see another new Richard Stanley film and suddenly I get Hardware coming out on Blu Ray and a new film in one week???
Bliss!