Trailer For an Impressive Looking Mysterious Fantasy Film THE WANTING MARE Which was Shot in a Storage Unit
I’ve got a fascinating trailer for an impressive looking indie film titled The Wanting Mare. The movie comes from producer Shane Carruth, who previously directed the highly acclaimed indie films Primer and Upstream Color.
This latest film was written and directed by Nicholas Ashe Bateman and he shot the film almost entirely in a storage unit located in New Jersey. Everything in the film, behind the actors, was created digitally and as you’ll see the work is crazy good! It’s a fantasy world that looks totally real. The movie is said to have taken five years to make, and includes “hundreds of visual effects seamlessly blend digital landscapes and physical reality.”
There have been movies like this made in the past like Sin City and Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, but this takes things to a whole new level. While those other films have a stylistic look to them, this one looks like reality, but at the same time, slightly dream-like. You’ll see what I mean when you watch the trailer.
As for what The Wanting Mare is about, here’s the synopsis:
In the world of Anmaere, north of the city of Whithren, wild horses run through the moorlands and up the coast. These horses are the city’s most valuable export, and as a result are hunted, trapped, sold and shipped across the sea once a year. For those in Whithren, this trade passage creates lucrative and exciting possibilities: the chance to escape their constantly sweltering city to head to the Western continent of Levithen, or just to begin again.
Meanwhile in a small house just north of the city, a young woman dies in childbirth. Her last words are an attempt to tell her daughter of the life she’ll have and her inheritance of a recurring dream that must be kept secret; for it contains the memories of another age long before us, one where magic and myth were alive in the world.
That daughter now left behind is Moira. She grows alone in Whithren, without anyone to explain her dream, her unique difference, or her place in the world. As a result, she resolves to leave Whithren at all costs, and employs the help of Lawrence, a wounded young man engaged in the criminal enterprise of stealing tickets.
This begins a series of events that echo over the enxt thirty-five years of their life, the life of a child found screaming on the rocks, and through the alleys and coasts of Whithren; a city hidden in the fog, wanting in hear, now beginning again.
The cast for the film includes Jordan Monaghan, Yasmin Keshtkar, Edmond Cofie, Nicholas Ashe Bateman, Josh Clark, and Christine Kellogg-Darrin. There’s no official release date in place yet, but check out the trailer and tell us what you think.