IONCINEMA.com presents: Blood and Chocolate (2007)

CAST AND CREW

Director

Katja von Garnier

Cast (alphabetical order):

Agnes Bruckner

Hugh Dancy

Bryan Dick

Chris Geere

Tom Harper

John Kerr

Olivier Martinez

Katja Riemann

Jack Wilson

Blood and Chocolate

Release Date: Jan 26, 2007 - Wide Release
Distributor: MGM
Film Genre: Horror
Country: United States

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Set in Eastern Europe, the film, adapted by Ehren Kruger, this is based on Annette Curtis Klause's young-adult novel. Ten years ago, in the remote mountains of Colorado, a young girl watched helplessly as her family was murdered by a pack of angry men for the secret they carried in their blood. She survived by running into the woods, and changing into something the hunters could never find … a wolf. Now, though she lives half a world away, Vivian Gandillon (Agnes Bruckner) is still running. Living in relative safety in Bucharest, Vivian spends her days working at a chocolate shop and nights trawling the city’s underground clubs, fending off the reckless antics of her cousin Rafe (Bryan Dick) and his gang of delinquents he calls “The Five.” But only when she’s running through the woods around the city does Vivian feel truly free … though whatever she’s chasing seems continually to elude her. Aiden Galvin (Hugh Dancy) is an artist researching Bucharest’s ancient art and relics for his next graphic novel based on the mythology of the loup garoux – shapeshifters whose power to change effortlessly into the forms of both human and wolf was once considered holy among men. Wrestling demons of his own, Aiden hopes to explore the inner lives of these outsiders that he believes were persecuted to extinction – labeled monsters, murderers, werewolves. They achieved what he lacks – transcendence, the ability to change what they are. What he doesn’t know is that the loup garoux are not only very real, they’re far from extinct. During a chance encounter in an abandoned church celebrating the loup garoux, Aiden unknowingly comes face-to-face with the real thing … Vivian. Others may have secrets but none as extraordinary as hers, for Vivian is among the last of her kind, leading a tenuous existence under the protection and control of Gabriel (Olivier Martinez), the powerful and enigmatic leader of one of the last packs of loux garoux on earth.

TRIVIA

Von Garnier directed HBO's Iron Jawed Angels.

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2005-04-14
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Olivier Martinez and Agnes Bruckner will star in the pic.

2005-01-25
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Katja Von Garnier is in talks to direct the project. Filming is slated to begin this spring.

2004-08-13
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Rupert Wainwright is in talks to direct the pic which will be produced the project with Lakeshore Entertainment.

2004-01-20
Variety reports that Kruger will scribe the project which MGM is readying "Blood" for a summer start.