WE'RE BACK!
Who else is back? Director Ilya Naishuller, that's who. WHO is that you ask?
Naishuller produced and directed the two viral music videos for Russian rock band, Biting Elbows titled The Stampede & Bad Motherfucker. What made them unique was their first-person point of view as we romped through an action movie. They scorched the internet, specifically BMF as it was the more popular of the two. Meanwhile, Naishuller launched a project on crowd-funding site Indiegogo (for $250,000) to make a full length feature in the same vein. That feature is NOW complete and it's name is Hardcore Henry.
You (Henry) wake up from near death in Moscow in typical badass protagonist fashion. You have no idea who you are. You also learn that you are cybernetically enhanced. You're accompanied by Estelle, a pretty woman proclaiming she is your wife. It doesn't take long before the action ensues and you go from on the run to on the chase. The movie is powered by the custom camera rig (above) which houses dual GoPros. While The Stampede and Bad Motherfucker were both visual marvels, many people questioned whether or not the process is a gimmick that would wear thin over a feature length running time. Those questions were answered when STX Entertainment beat out Lionsgate and Universal in a bidding war for it's rights shortly after the movie shut down the Toronto International Film Festival last year.
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