Playing in select cities this April
Simon Hunter’s Mutant Chronicles has been snatched up by genre distributor Magnet Releasing (a Wagner/Cuban Company and a division of Magnolia Pictures). And as part of the Wagner/Cuban Companies’ Ultra VOD program, the sci-fi horror actioner will premiere on VOD on Friday, March 27th, 2009, followed by a theatrical release in select cities on Friday, April 24th.
(Interesting, there’s nothing that confirms Fangoria’s previous report that it was heading direct to the Sci-Fi Channel.)
Mutant Chronicles is set in the year 2707, on an unrecognizable Earth where a war is raging between four giant corporations who control the planet as they battle over the planet’s dwindling resources. This war is soon rendered irrelevant when an errant bomb shatters an ancient buried seal, releasing a horrific mutant army from its prison deep within the earth. As the mutant scourge threatens human extinction, a squad of ragged soldiers, led by Mitch Hunter, descends into the earth in a last ditch effort to destroy the mutants and save mankind.
Thomas Jane, John Malkovich, Ron Perlman, Sean Pertwee, Devon Aoki and Shauna MacDonald star. Helluva cast right there.
“Mutant Chronicles is a blast,” says Magnolia Pictures President Eamonn Bowles in a press release. “It’s an action-packed thriller with a dynamite cast and very impressive production values. We’re thrilled to add it to Magnet’s slate of quality genre pictures.”
Source: Magnet Releasing
