Pontypool Author Teams With Foresight for Three Picture Slate

The first film in this all-Canuck collaboration is the gripping sci-fi chiller Ejecta (pictured right and below), directed by Foresight filmmaker Matt Wiele from a script by Burgess, which wrapped production in mid-May 2012. 

The company is also teaming up with Burgess for a gothic horror-throwback directed by John Geddes (Exit Humanity) set for production in July, and a survival horror nightmare directed by Jesse Thomas Cook (Monster Brawl) that goes to camera in September.  

Foresight owners Cook, Geddes and Wiele will executive produce the three film slate with fellow-filmmakers Cody Calahan and Chad Archibald (Neverlost) on board as producers.

Tony Burgess is the author of Pontypool Changes Everything, which he adapted into a script for Bruce McDonald’s cult masterpiece Pontypool in 2008.  

He has been developing Pontypool II with McDonald, which was recently selected as one of Fantasia International Film Festival’s Frontieres Co-Production Market projects. Last year he released the book People Live Still at Cashtown Corners, published by Chizine. And his latest book Idaho Winter was nominated for the Trillium award, Ontario’s most prestigious writing accolade.

“Tony lives in the next town over and we’ve all been friends for years, so it was inevitable that we’d finally be working together on something. We’re all very excited to be collaborating with the madman genius of Tony Burgess. He is quite possibly the leading horror author writing in Canada today, and certainly the most bizarre. We hope to harness his morbid energy and capture his sharp-tongued wit in three unique cinematic visions.”

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