Sven Faulconer Hypes ‘Blood Father’

Just a small piece on upcoming manly movie ‘Blood Father’ here.  The film’s composer Sven Faulconer has been talking about the movie, a possible release date, theatrical release and of course, working with Mel Gibson.  You can check it out here.

So this film has a good director, Jean-François Richet, who directed the Mesrine movies, a good writer in Peter Craig (The Town) and Faulconer, who has worked with Ridley Scott and on movies like the Bourne series.

In the movie Gibson’s daughter, played by Erin Moriarty, is accused by her drugs kingpin boyfriend of stealing from him.  He sets out to kill her and make an example, but Moriarty calls her old man for help who is a biker.  Awesome synopsis.

It appears that now the movie will be available on demand this June in France.  According to the latest issue of the magazine Les Années Laser.  The film was originally earmarked for a theatrical run in France.

There’s still some confusion about Canada, where it is said to have a ‘premiere’ there in March;  ‘The Canadian distributor has announced its 2016 film line-up with a slate that includes Jean-François Richet’s Blood Father starring Mel Gibson and Elvis & Nixon starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey.’ That’s possibly a limited screening, depending on how you might interpret premiere.  The confusion is drawn from LionsGate having not yet finalized plans for how or when they’re going to release the movie in the United States, the biggest market for this type of thing.

Faulconer envisions a Q3 US release date, inclined to agree since Lions Gate seem unsure of how to release it there yet, from what they’ve told me.