Magnolia’s Tom Quinn becomes the go-to guy if you want your fantasy-horror genre films to make in-roads in the U.S. This week, Magnolia’s Magnet Releasing label are padding up their 2011 slate and have made three pick-up announcements landing them a “Blair Witch” like horror film from Norway (The Troll Hunter) , a dystopian, where did everybody go? type from TIFF (Vanishing on 7th Street) and now, they landed a medieval period film from Brit helmer Christopher Smith with who they previously teamed with on 2007’s Severance.
Set for a release in Spring of 2011, Black Death sees Sean Bean in the title role of Ulric, a grim emissary from the Church, who leads a young monk (Eddie Redmayne) and a band of violent vigilantes and war veterans through the English countryside. Armed with blood-chilling torture devices, their mission is to stamp out suspected paganism in a village that remains untouched by the black plague, even as the rest of Europe grimly succumbs to the pestilence. Below you can see what Magnet has got their hands in: the trailer and Q&A coverage of the film when it showed at the Fantasia Int. Film Festival.
