Are You Ready To Return To THE TUNNEL?
Written and produced by Julian Harvey and Enzo Tedeschi and directed by Carlo Ledesma, Australian horror The Tunnel was a grand experiment in alternative distribution. Funded largely by 'selling' individual frames in the film for a dollar to a rabid fan base and then distributed for free online via BitTorrent, The Tunnel has proven to be successful enough that Harvey and Tedeschi are gearing up to do it all again. Twice. In slightly different ways.
First, there is the upcoming sequel The Tunnel: Dead End. Following a more traditional funding model - i.e. it is backed by Screen Australia rather than crowd funded and, thus, not bloody likely to be given away free - the story will pick up after the first, following the sister of one of the original's main characters as she returns to the site of the original film.
Does following a traditional funding model for The Tunnel: Dead End mean that Harvey and Tedeschi have forgotten their roots? Not at all. The duo are simultaneously developing a second crowd funded project, this one a scifi-horror titled Airlock following the basic model employed with The Tunnel. Airlock is described simply as " a claustrophobic science fiction film in the vein of Alien."
First, there is the upcoming sequel The Tunnel: Dead End. Following a more traditional funding model - i.e. it is backed by Screen Australia rather than crowd funded and, thus, not bloody likely to be given away free - the story will pick up after the first, following the sister of one of the original's main characters as she returns to the site of the original film.
Does following a traditional funding model for The Tunnel: Dead End mean that Harvey and Tedeschi have forgotten their roots? Not at all. The duo are simultaneously developing a second crowd funded project, this one a scifi-horror titled Airlock following the basic model employed with The Tunnel. Airlock is described simply as " a claustrophobic science fiction film in the vein of Alien."
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