![]() ![]() Grant, The Spine of Night premieres at SXSW tonight at 6 p.m. ![]() Like, the world needed this movie.”Īlso starring Patton Oswalt and Richard E. “I think unfortunately, fantasy has taken its foot off the gas pedal, in a lot of ways, and this, to me, was like the antidote to all of that. I love that, and I think there isn’t enough of that,” Manganiello added. The Spine of Night, written and directed by Philip Gellatt and Morgan Galen King, is an homage to a bygone era of animated sword-and-sorcery films. I grew up on all things fantasy…and that’s my version of fantasy, Conan the Barbarian and these dark, but epic fantasy stories of life being difficult for the denizens of these worlds. “It had this ugly-beautiful quotient that was really new for me, and…I was just attracted to it as being really nutty, out-there storytelling.” Written and directed by Gelatt and King, The Spine of Night begins with Tzod (Lucy Lawless), a tenacious swamp witch, who wears only a smattering of bones and a strange blue flower. It falls on heroes from different eras and cultures to fight back, and stars Richard E. The film is set in a fantasy land ripe with magic and intrigue where a dark force is unleashed sending mankind into an age of ruin. ![]() It reminds me of being a kid and watching Clutch Cargo and early Hanna-Barbera,” Lawless said. THE SPINE OF NIGHT is an ultra-violent, hand-rotoscoped epic fantasy inspired by the cult classic works of animators Ralph Bakshi and Frank Franzetta. “So, by the time Phil talked to me about expanding it into a larger narrative, I’d had all these seeds that we could grow the story from.”įor the stars of The Spine of Night, the story at hand was a major draw, as was the distinctive vision for this animated film. “I spent a lot of time thinking about every single detail I was drawing…and the history of every single thing you see ,” says King. Fleshing out a world that King first established with Exordium-the 2013 short film that initially caught Gelatt’s attention-the feature was a labor of love, carefully crafted over the course of six years. ![]()
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