Kiefer Sutherland Faces Mirrors

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=18765

Source: Variety
February 6, 2007


Kiefer Sutherland will spend his "24" hiatus starring in Mirrors, a supernatural thriller to be directed by Alexandre Aja, reports Variety. New Regency is financing the film and will distribute through 20th Century Fox.

Sutherland became available to star in the movie when plans to carry his Jack Bauer character into a "24" feature were postponed because the script wasn't ready. Fox won't start the clock on that film until next summer, when Sutherland completes the seventh season of the show.

In Mirrors, Sutherland will play an ex-cop who works security at a mall and discovers something awry in the mirrors of a department store. He tries to discover the origin of the evil.

The producers are Marc Sternberg, Alexandra Milchan and Gregory Levasseur. Andrew Hong is executive producer.

Aja, who last directed the hit genre remake The Hills Have Eyes, wrote the most recent draft of the script. Shooting starts on May 1 in Romania.

I loved what Aja did with the Hills Have Eyes remake and the fact Kiefer is the star puts this movie on my most anticipated list

 

[Sava]

you'll watch anything with Kiefer


...this sounds good

 

[britrogue]

Kiefer rules! I'm so glad that that puts an end to that awful rumour I heard about the end of 24 - Day 6.

 

[Sava]

of course Kiefer rulse, He's Jack-F**king-Bauer

 

[britrogue]

I love 24 so much. But then, I've always been a fan of his. Flatliners is one of my favourite films, and he is totally awesome in it.

 

[Hunter Rider]

you'll watch anything with Kiefer


...this sounds good

True because......

of course Kiefer rulse, He's Jack-F**king-Bauer

t:

And i also like the directors other movie

 

[Sava]

And i also like the directors other movie

i spelt "Rules" wrong ...shame about the 24 movie, would have loved to seen that.

 

[Prognosticator]

I think he should spend his hiatus shooting a prequel to "The Lost Boys" instead.

 

[Hoedowned]

It's always (figuratively speaking) great to hear about a movie with Kiefer Sutherland.

And it's great to see Aja doing something original.

 

[GoldGoblin]

Is this a ghost story?

 

[Prognosticator]

I haven't been this excited about a Kiefer Sutherland movie since 'The Sentinel".

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=19647

Paula Patton Joins Mirrors
Source: Variety
March 30, 2007


Paula Patton will star opposite Kiefer Sutherland in Alexandre Aja's supernatural thriller Mirrors, reports Variety.

New Regency is financing and will distribute through 20th Century Fox. The film will begin shooting at the beginning of May, after Sutherland wraps season six of "24."

The story revolves around a security guard (Sutherland) who discovers an evil spirit lurking in the mirrors of an abandoned department store. Patton will play the guard's soon-to-be ex-wife, a coroner who has a hard time believing her husband's claims, at least initially.

Producers are Marc Sternberg, Alexandra Milchan and Gregory Levasseur. Andrew Hong is executive producer.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/10272

It’s a great honor to talk to Alex Aja, especially after we kick started the hype for his first film, HAUTE TENSION, from the Toronto International Film Festival all those years ago. Now after the release of his HILLS HAVE EYES, the French director has gone from directing to producing with his first project, P2, hitting theaters everywhere on November 9. With our full interview coming soon, below we had a chance to talk about his forthcoming re-imagining of the Korean horror film INTO THE MIRROR and PIRANHA.

Aja talked a bit about how he was approached to do MIRRORS and how he nearly passed on the project, “I was approached right after THE HILLS HAVE EYES to do MIRROR and I was wondering if I would have to do the sequel [to HILLS],” he continues, “I was approached by New Regency with the script by the title INTO THE MIRROR - that was the title at the time - I read the script and didn’t connect at all to the script or the story. They asked me before I was going to pass, they basically asked me to watch the Korean movie and I really liked the opening scene and the ending – but I didn’t connect with the movie itself. I thought it was an amazing topic; it was something really scary, new and different… way closer to THE SHINING, but a different style.”

One thing that Aja is quickly being known for his the level of gore in his films, I wondered if MIRRORS would lack the blood flow being that it was a remake to a Japanese horror film. He assures us that this isn’t like those other Japanese remakes, “It’s super graphic [and] really gory. I didn’t want to direct THE RING or DARK WATER; I really wanted to do something following the track of THE SHINING. For me it’s a movie that found a great balance between graphic gore and supernatural stuff as well.”

He recently wrapped shooting on MIRRORS< which is said to features some insane gore from the dudes at KNB; Aja tells us how this pars up to his first two films, “I just finished my director’s cut and I’m really, really excited. I think we have something that is really graphic, really gory and really violent and at the same very scary; it’s much scarier than what I did before.”

 

[Darth Elektra]

First Official Still From Alex Aja's 'Mirrors'




20th Century Fox's remake of the Asian horror movie, is the story follows a security guard (Kiefer Sutherland) at a high-end department store who begins to investigate mysterious deaths occurring in front of the stores' mirrors. He soon discovers that there are murderous reflections out for revenge.

 

[Gotham]

Kind of a puzzling first picture to release.

 

[Shifty]

Comes out Aug.18

 

[The Apatow Crew]

I like his stuff he's wrote,produced or directed. Should be good.

 

[Nightmare]

sounds cool, keifer rules

 

[Troubled_Josh]

 

[Jspider13]

Kind of a puzzling first picture to release.

thats the idea.

 

[pyromaniac]

Yum. I must admit I have never seen Kiefer on the big screen for some reason, but this is bookmarked on my list.

Helps if it's a good film to watch either.

The first still - I dunno, I thought that seemed to be a glimpse of what the film visually about. The hand on the mirror is very subtle but it gives a certain idea.

 

[tzarinna]

I don't know how I feel about this. I love Kiefer, I'd do him in a heartbeat.
We shall see.

 

[pyromaniac]

I'd do him in a heartbeat too if anyone would ask me to.

 

[Nightmare]

I'd do him in a heartbeat too if anyone would ask me to.

Ok, please do him.

 

[terry78]

Asian cinema is slowly becoming the new comic book film. I think they're just waiting to charge us out the ass next time we try to snatch up rights to one of their flicks.