Having recently completed more than 130 vfx shots for the third installment in Dario Argento’s horror trilogy The Third Mother, Anthem Visual Effects is moving on to a new version of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz. Titled Tin Man, the six-hour miniseries produced by RHI Ent. will air on SCI FI Channel in December.
Anthem is doing more than 1,000 shots for Tin Man, a sci-fi twist on the classic literary tale that has been brought to the screen several times in both live-action and animated form. Zooey Deschanel will star as DG, a young girl who is plucked from her boring existence and thrust into the frightening and wondrous realm of The Outer Zone (a.k.a. the O.Z.) There, she meets Glitch (Alan Cumming), an odd man missing half his brain; Raw (Raoul Trujillo), a quietly powerful wolverine-like creature longing for inner courage; and Cain (Neal McDonough), a heroic former policeman seeking vengeance for his scarred heart. Together they must fight the evil sorceress Azkadellia (Kathleen Robertson) and seek the one thing each of them needs. The cast also includes Richard Dreyfuss.
Written by Steven Long Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle (TV’s The Pretender) Tin Man is currently being shot in Vancouver, B.C. by director Nick Willing, whose credits include Hallmark’s TV treatments of Jason and the Argonauts and Alice in Wonderland. Fellow Hallmark veterans Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi Jr. (Dinotopia) are exec producing.
Anthem has also done a good deal of work for the Hallmark, starting with the 2004 Hallmark/SCI FI Channel miniseries Legend of Earthsea, for which it earned an Emmy nomination in 2005. More recently, the studio completed effects for RHI’s miniseries Marco Polo, which will air on the Hallmark Channel in June, and Son of the Dragon, set to air in 2008. Anthem previously produced hundreds of visual effects shots for the first two seasons of Starz Media’s Masters of Horror series for Showtime, and contributed to New Line Cinema’s The Butterfly Effect 2.
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