1st Stills & More Casting News for the Upcoming Indie Flick, ‘Ombis’
I’ve been covering this one for a while now and finally some new news has surfaced regarding the indie sci-fi-thriller, OMBIS. To the left is the final official artwork, and below check out some stills and the new teaser trailer. Here’s the press release:
DEFTONE PICTURES RELEASES FIRST STILL OF THE NEMESIS ALONG WITH ANNOUNCES SUPERMODEL MELYSSA JADE TO JOIN THE CAST OF ALIEN INVASION FILM “OMBIS”
CONTACT: Adam R Steigert, asteigert@deftonepicturesstudios.com
DATE: February, 26 2012
DefTone Pictures Studios announces supermodel Melyssa Jade has signed on to do a cameo in the upcoming epic feature film Ombis. Melyssa Jade was winner of the Miss Hawaiian Tropics USA. She has been featured on Animal Planet, is soon to be the star of her own reality television series and has appeared in many commercials. Melyssa Jade plays Savannah, a young attractive woman, who enters a local Metzburgh gym. She quickly finds herself victim to the plague known as Ombis.
DefTone Pictures Studios is embarking on a new marketing strategy for the production of Ombis. This includes you becoming part of the film! All you have to do is log on to www.deftonepicturesstudios.com and fill out the “Become an Extra” form. The extra roles include being a Metzburgh villager, a victim, or an Ombis slime mutant!
Ombis cast and crew will appear at the first annual Beyond Ghost ParaHorror weekend taking place at Buffalo’s historic Central Terminal on May 26th 2012. The Central Terminal has been featured on Syfy Channel’s Ghost Hunters. During the event, you can get a look live and in person at a caged Ombis slime mutant! Check out http://www.beyondghosts.com/paracon_movie.shtml
The Nemesis character
Richard Winiatowski who plays the “Nemesis” character in Ombis released a statement about the status of the production “the whole process of transforming me into my character “Nemesis” has been an amazing experience thus far. Being new to the Deftone “Family”, I had no idea what to expect. Everyone I have worked with along the way has been amazing. They have done a fantastic job in turning a concept into reality. My height provided them with many challenges and they have been able to turn it into a positive. It’s been exciting for me personally because everytime we get together another piece of my character becomes a reality. I have yet to see the finished product but I can assure you that the viewers of Ombis are in for a treat.” What exactly is the “Nemesis”? The “Nemesis” is a creature from an alien world which has been sent to earth to stop the spread of the alien virus called Ombis. The creature has no regard for the human race and has been sent to contain the spread of the “destroyer of worlds” which is Ombis. The alien life form stands at almost seven feet and towers over normal humans.
supermodel Melyssa Jade
Sara Manzella who play’s one of the leads of the film had this to say “My role in Ombis is Lucy, a high school girl just trying to make it with an unstable family situation. Her personality is whinny but her heart is in the right place when horror strikes her home town. The role my character plays in the film Ombis is the “screamer” a shy, girl next door who keeps her high school boy friend in check throughout the film.”
At the end of May 2012 DefTone Pictures Studios will be releasing a three minute finished scene of the film. Steigert (Director) stated “I can’t say at this time what the scene will have in it, many of our digital effects shots are currently being edited so it might be one of those. A lot of people have been asking about the Ombis slime mutants if we could show a clip of them attacking people. Sadly no scenes of the creatures attacking people will be finished filming till April which would give the editors not a lot time to edit and give their best work so that will have to wait till October 2013, but I will promise the fan’s wouldn’t be unpleased in the choice we do pick (laugh).”
Check out the new teaser trailer for OMBIS:
Stay Bloody!!!
Millions of miles? Seriously, miles? Millions of miles is the distance from the Sun to Earth. Miles might be too small a measure. How about thousands of light years or a million. If it has to be miles then trillions may be more appropriate.
Other than that this doesn’t really give much of a tease.
Scifi flicks are difficult to pull off on micro, indie budgets. The teaser definitely doesn’t give away too much and I hope they can pull off what they are wanting to pull off. Sounds like an ambitious project.