Tourné en 2020, Crépuscule pour un tueur prendra l’affiche au début 2023.
Coécrit par Raymond St-Jean et Martin Girard, les scénaristes se sont basés sur les nombreux articles de journaux qui ont été écrits à l’époque sur Donald Lavoie qui a admis en 1981 avoir participé à 27 meurtres pour le compte de la famille Dubois, une des plus importantes organisations criminelles de Montréal à l’époque.
Sur son site, Raymond St-Jean, qui a aussi réalisé le film, écrit que le film est librement inspiré de fait vécus. Le drame criminel raconte comment, à la fin des années 1970, Donald Lavoie, un tueur à gages redoutable, travaille sous les ordres du boss de la pègre du Sud-Ouest de Montréal, Claude Dubois qui prend sous son aile une jeune recrue qui ne tarde pas à le compromettre dans un double meurtre salopé.
Lavoie échappe à la justice, mais ce n’est que partie remise pour le sergent-détective Patrick Burns qui cherche à le convaincre de témoigner pour faire tomber le clan Dubois.
“Los Angeles, 2064. In a world where humans have to live along the living dead, a new job opportunity arises: zombie catcher. Karl Neard, his sister Maggie, and his Belgian friend Freddy Merckx, all embrace this “career” in the hope of making easy money. Unfortunately, the job is not that simple: not only are the “dead” still walking, but they also have a terrible stench and an awful sense of humor. As a matter of fact, zombies just don’t care about anything, as their lives are behind them and they now have an eternity to enjoy what is left of the world. Karl and his team will quickly find this fact out as they end up surrounded by all sorts of ghoulish freaks.
We Are Zombies is a collaboration between Christal Film Productions, Full House, a label of Borsalino Productions and Maneki Films, and Humanoids’ European sister company Sparkling, in association with Kinology. Spengler is producing the film for Sparkling. The project is backed by SODEC, Telefilm Canada, Sofitvcine, La Banque Postale Image, Cofimage, refundable tax credit for Québec film and television production, Eurimages, Cofinova, and the Canadian Film and Video Production Tax Credit.
“The Zombies That Ate the World has been compared to Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and the works of Judd Apatow. The comic was also praised by the likes of George A. Romero, Joe Dante, and Tobe Hooper.
Shot in Canada back in the spring, We Are Zombies is now in post-production and is toplined by Québécois actors Alexandre Nachi (nominated for the 2019 Best Supporting Role Iris via 1991) and Derek Johns (The Wolf and the Lion [+]), alongside Australian actress Megan Peta Hill. Written by RKSS based on Jerry Frissen and Guy Davis’ comic book series, the film was developed and produced by Gaël Nouaille, Laurent Baudens and Didar Domehri on behalf of Full House (the joint label of Borsalino Productions and Maneki Films), We Are Zombies is executively co-produced by Canada’s Christal Films. Also co-produced by Sparkling (Humanoïdes Associés’ production arm), We Are Zombies enjoys support from Eurimages, SODEC, Téléfilm Canada and the SOFICA companies Sofitvcine, Cofimage, La Banque Postale Image and Cofinova. International sales are steered by Kinology.”
RKSS previously directed the films Turbo Kid and Summer of 84.
It was reported that UK LGBTQ+-focused distributor Peccadillo Pictures claimed that Amazon Prime Video UK is refusing to make Canadian artist and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce’s provocative dark comedy Saint-Narcisse, written by Martin Girard, available on its online store.
“After 6 months streaming on Amazon in the US and France, my movie, Saint-Narcisse, has been removed for offensive content with no other explanation!,” Bruce Labruce writes on his IG.
Saint-Narcisse was produced by Montreal’s Nicolas Comeau’s 1976 Productions.
Masterclass First look – @Whitney Museum / New York. Immersive content projections commissioned by Little Cinema. Creative Director: Bruno Ribeiro with 3d artists: Olivier Caron / Vincent Masson / Bruno Delouzillière. Music composed by Ricardo Romaneiro. And produced by Sebastien Vergne with content manager, Marie Dussart.
Timo von Gunten is a screenwriter and director based in Zurich. His creative childhood helped him direct his first film projects from an early age. From 2010 to 2017, various short films followed and were shown and awarded at international film festivals such as Dubai, Sapporo or Locarno. In 2017, his work LA FEMME ET LE TGV (Jane Birkin) was nominated for an Academy Award® and won the Swiss Film Award. In 2020, Timo completed the Master in Screenwriting at the art school of Zurich. He is now pursuing his feature film career mainly as a director. From October 2021 to March 2022, Timo has been working as a co-director (B-unit) with acclaimed Swiss director Michael Steiner on the 6-episode series Beschatter (Swiss National TV production).
