Production of Hollywood sci-fi thriller, Prisoner of War starring Bond
girl Berenice Marlohe, is set to take place in South Africa. Production company
Voltage Pictures announced that Prisoner of War will also star Australian
actor Alex Russell.
The film, set in a “war-ravaged African countryside’, sees US soldier (Russell)
and a French foreign aid worker (Marlohe) teaming up to survive an alien
onslaught.
According to Jan Cronje’s report in the Weekend Argus, the aliens could
resemble large robots, based on hints by director Joe Miale and a teaser poster
for the film on the Voltage Pictures website. “Alien war machines have been
stomping around in my head for far too long – I’m eager to set them loose on
the big screen and have them take over the world,’ Miale said.
“Prisoner Of War is set in an imaginative and dangerous world,
with a story that is both epic and intimate – much along the lines of District
9 or the first Terminator,’ he explained.
Miale was in the country to scout locations in May, including the Cape Town Film
Studios complex and the Cradle of Humankind. He posted on his Twitter account
on 21 July that he had arrived in Johannesburg from Los Angeles.
“Plotting and planning in South Africa’, he wrote next to a photo of a hand-
drawn storyboard.
Prisoner of War will be Miale’s first feature who has previously
directed popular music videos, as well as commercials and TV episodes.
Source: Weekend Argus. Author: Jan Cronje
For more information visit Miale’s
website.
