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A Chilling Patrick Stewart Stars In Second Trailer For GREEN ROOM
Patrick Stewart plays an evil villain, “an absolute evil bastard,” says director Jeremy Saulnier of the actor in the upcoming film GREEN ROOM.
The movie, which screened at the Cannes Film Festival 2015 and the Toronto International Film Festival 2015, now has a brand new trailer before it bows in select cinemas on April 15.
GREEN ROOM is a brilliantly crafted and wickedly fun horror-thriller starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical club owner who squares off against an unsuspecting but resilient young punk band. Down on their luck punk rockers The Ain’t Rights are finishing up a long and unsuccessful tour, and are about to call it quits when they get an unexpected booking at an isolated, rundown club deep in the backwoods of Oregon.
What seems merely to be a third-rate gig escalates into something much more sinister when they witness an act of violence backstage that they weren’t meant to see. Now trapped backstage, they must face off against the club’s depraved owner, Darcy Banker (Stewart), a man who will do anything to protect the secrets of his nefarious enterprise. But while Darcy and his henchmen think the band will be easy to get rid of, The Ain’t Rights prove themselves much more cunning and capable than anyone expected, turning the tables on their unsuspecting captors and setting the stage for the ultimate life-or-death showdown.
Intense, emotional, and ingeniously twisted, GREEN ROOM is genre filmmaking at its best and most original. Saulnier continues to build his reputation as one of the most exciting and distinctive directors working today, with a movie that’s completely different from his previous, highly acclaimed Blue Ruin, but which is just as risk-taking and even more full of twists.
The entire cast deliver first-rate performances, but Patrick Stewart gives a transformative and brilliantly devious turn as Darcy – elegant yet lethal, droll yet terrifying.
Stewart played memorable bad guy, Lucius Aelius Sejanus, in four episodes of the superb 1976 BBC miniseries “I, CLAUDIUS.” Airing in the US on PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre, Stewart was unforgettable as the ambitious soldier, friend and confidant of the Roman Emperor Tiberius who eliminated anyone who stood between him and ultimate power.
The director says the concept for GREEN ROOM had been gestating for decades. “The better part of my high-school years was spent making zombie films and playing in punk bands. I wasn’t actually a musician, so I yelled into a microphone while my more talented friends played the instruments. For a time, I was as deeply connected to the sound, the aesthetic, and the physicality of punk and hardcore as I was the creative pursuit of filmmaking. It felt very natural to merge these two worlds in Green Room.
This is a blunt-force narrative, meant to be experienced viscerally, in your guts, and the clash between the out-of-town punks and the local neo-Nazis was merely a jumping off point. As the plot develops and the situation spirals out of control, the ideology and affiliations that set the stage for conflict are completely stripped away. I didn’t want it to be about politics, I wanted it to be about momentum.”
The film also stars Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots.
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