Rise

Brian in Mesa · April 15th, 2005, 12:01 AM

Lucy Liu is on the Rise
Source: Variety
April 15, 2005

Lucy Liu will topline the horror-thriller Rise for Ghost House Pictures, reports Variety. Written and to be directed by Sebastian Gutierrez, the film will begin principal photography this summer.

Liu will play a reporter who wakes up in a morgue and discovers she's no longer among the living. She vows revenge against the vampires responsible for putting her there and hunts them down one by one.

Ghost House, a genre production label formed by Mandate Pictures together with Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert, is fully financing the film

Brian in Mesa · May 27th, 2005, 09:13 AM

Michael Chiklis is on the Rise
Source: Variety
May 27, 2005

Michael Chiklis is set to join Lucy Liu in Rise, the Sebastian Gutierrez-directed horror-thriller that will shoot next month, reports Variety.

Star of FX series The Shield and Fox's upcoming Fantastic Four, Chiklis will play a haunted police detective whose daughter was killed by a strange cult.

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Ok, is it just me, or did the plot change?

Maybe the detective and the undead reporter hunt down the vampires?

Chaplin · May 27th, 2005, 09:18 AM

Sounds like the Crow.

jf-08 · May 27th, 2005, 09:45 AM

When I first read the 1st line in the thread, I thought it said Lucy Liu will go topless...