Two Get In 'Fortuna'
Man, if you weren’t already self-conscious about the failing economy, Hollywood sure isn’t doing anything to help you. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Lost’s Dominic Monaghan and Planet Terror’s Freddy Rodriguez have signed on for the upcoming horror bid Fortuna (that’s “bid” not “Bib”, my geek brethren). Set in 2100, Fortuna envisions an Earth on which a collapsed economy and climate crises have eliminated the middle class, leaving a few very wealthy and the teeming masses in severe poverty. To give hope and avoid revolt, the elite create Fortuna, a mysterious game where one in a thousand wins a big payday and joins the upper classes. But their hidden goal, to "reduce poverty" by thirty percent over fifty years, comes with a deadly price tag.
Monaghan, Rodriguez and Fortuna writer-director Barthelemy Grossmann will play desperate men who play the game in a nearby tower, despite apprehensions that none of its contestants are ever seen again. Sounds like some shady stuff is going down in the future… The pic is planned to begin lensing November 10 for a six-week shoot in Sofia, Bulgaria. Desolate, ghetto-like sets are being built for a film that producer Laurent Zilber compares to 1973's post-apocalyptic thriller Soylent Green – which can only mean one thing… This movie will be EXACTLY like Soylent Green.
