![]() I'm not sure if we can ever finish this movie, because there's a thing going around the world. He was like, ‘Ben, we're sending you a van right now, and you're going to get on that van and you're going to drive back to Berlin. “Suddenly, I get a call on a Friday night from my line producer, Mark Nolting. Then, most of the actors finally began arriving and everything was coming together. Everything was going great I did some of the second unit directing outside with all the SWAT shots, Peter was handling everything with the actors, and Netflix was happy with the rushes. We had shot something like five to 10 days, I'm not sure anymore, but it was all the stuff outside at the military base. And in 2019, fate finally intervened.Īccording to Munz, “We started to shoot the movie at the start of 2020 in Prague, finally. ![]() Despite feeling like the deck was stacked against them, Peter and his producing team at Rat Pack, led by Christian Becker, decided to purchase an old airplane that had been used for a TV series back in the nineties, just in case Blood Red Sky might eventually come together. ![]() ![]() But Kosse moved on from Universal, the project languished in limbo for years, and both Thorwatch and Munz thought that Blood Red Sky would never get to take flight. The sitcom never got picked up, but Thorwath realized that he might be onto something with the outlandish movie concept at the center of the series, and decided to write a script anyway, despite the fact that German audiences tend to appreciate more serious drama-driven cinematic fare.Įventually, the script for Blood Red Sky ended up in front of an executive named David Kosse at Universal International nearly nine years ago who was immediately taken by the concept at the center of Thorwath’s script. Their only means of escape is to retake the plane and get it back on course - even if it means facing down a vampire.According to Blood Red Sky producer Benjamin Munz, the concept of the film was actually a subplot that had been part of a German sitcom pitch that Thorwath had been trying to get going decades prior which was centered around an up-and-coming filmmaker who had the “ridiculous” idea of making a movie about vampires taking over a transatlantic flight. Bastian suggests that they should just take their advances and get out while they can, but because Mohammed has turned the plane away from its original course, they can no longer carry out their original plan of parachuting to safety. This is left ambiguous, though another passenger suggests that the hijackers' goal is to influence an upcoming election, and after that the conspiracy theories fly thick and fast.Īfter Berg is killed by Nadja, the remaining hijackers have no way to contact the person who contracted them, and no motive to complete the mission to crash the plane into the center of London. A news report at the start of Blood Red Sky references a recent boost to airline stocks, and one passenger suggests that the people responsible are short sellers who plan to make a fortune by forcing a massive drop in the value of airline stocks. Farid was forced to read out a statement claiming responsibility for the plane hijacking as a religiously-motivated act of terrorism, and the real hijackers planned to parachute away as soon as the plane was on course to crash into London. The goal of the plane hijackers was effectively to manufacture an Islamist terrorist attack similar to Al-Qaeda's attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Related: Peri Baumeister & Dominic Purcell Interview: Blood Red Sky
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