"Officer Downe", the new film directed by
SLIPKNOT's
M. Shawn Crahan, will receive its word premiere as part of the Nightfall competition at the 22nd
Los Angeles Film Festival, which begins next week in Culver City.
This year's edition of the fest runs from June 1 until June 9 at the newly opened ArcLight Culver City. Regal L.A. LIVE in downtown hosted
LAFF for the last several years.
"Officer Downe" Los Angeles Film Festival screenings:
* Friday, June 3 at 11:15 p.m. at Arclight Cinemas Culver City (world premiere)
* Tuesday, June 7 at 9:10 p.m. at Arclight Cinemas Culver City
Passes for the festival are on sale to Film Independent members and the general public.
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"Officer Downe" stars Canadian actor
Kim Coates — who is best known for playing
Tig Trager on the
FX series
"Sons Of Anarchy" — as an L.A. supercop who is killed in the line of duty but who is repeatedly resurrected and sent back onto the streets.
"Officer Downe" is based on the
"Man Of Action" imprint/
Image Comics graphic novel written by
Joe Casey — who also penned the film's screenplay — and illustrated by
Chris Burnham.
The film, which also features
Tyler Ross,
Lauren Velez,
Reno Wilson and
Bruno Gunn in the cast, is produced by
Man Of Action Entertainment,
Skip Williamson,
Cole Payne,
"Crank" co-director
Mark Neveldine and
SLIPKNOT manager
Cory Brennan.
Coates told
Entertainment Weekly about working with
Crahan: "He's crazy. We hit it off from the get-go. We had dinner, and he truly believes that we've worked together before in some other universe. Sure, alright, sure. He was ready to learn and share, and he had an incredible kinetic energy. He's ferociously talented."
Regarding his vision for the film,
Crahan told the
103.9 The Bear radio station in South Bend, Indiana: "I follow the story. That was my biggest thing. Everybody needs to know… I wanted to represent the story. That was my first prize — to make sure that it has justice. That people that are in love with the comic book and in love with the writer watch the movie and go, 'Yup. That was the story. And
Clown brought the visual and brought these crazy outfits and this crazy way of acting and these techniques.' So I think the world's gonna like it."
Back in February,
Neveldine declared on
"The Movie Crypt" podcast that
"Officer Downe" is "better than any
Marvel movie or DC movie ever made." And
Casey recently told
Entertainment Weekly that the film "makes
'Crank' look like
'The English Patient'."
Crahan told
The Pulse of Radio a while back that he's been working his way toward directing a feature for a long time. "I've been preparing myself with art my whole life, and preparing myself for directing and scriptwriting, and this is what I've been doing for 10 years, is learning and studying and taking it in," he said. "You know, I honestly believe that, you know, we are gonna create the next
'Clockwork Orange' and I'm gonna die trying because that's my life."
Crahan has directed a number of music videos, concert DVDs and behind-the-scenes featurettes for
SLIPKNOT.
He and
SLIPKNOT singer
Corey Taylor founded a film production company called
Living Breathing Films in 2012, although it has yet to release anything.
Taylor made his acting debut in the horror movie
"Fear Clinic", which was released on home video in February 2015.