- Title: LITHUANIA: New zombie horror film "Stone's war" being shot in capital Vilnius
- Date: 20th July 2007
- Summary: LEPPILAMPI AND TIERNAN AS MAKE UP IS PUT ON THEM (SOUNDBITE) (English) FINNISH ACTOR MIKKO LEPPILAMPI, SAYING: "This is a action movie, this is not...we are not writing history again here, it is very fictional story about the World War II happenings. And yeah, it's a lot of fun, a lot of action. Great thing about my profession is that, you know, I get to do different sorts of jobs. A previous one was playing Romeo, before that I was hosting the Eurovision song contest and now I'm here kicking some zombie butt. So, I'm having a good time here, in Lithuania."
- Embargoed: 4th August 2007 13:00
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- Location: Lithuania
- Country: Lithuania
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- Story Text: A new Zombie horror film called "Stone's war" was being shot in Lithuania's capital Vilnius on Thursday (July 12).
Actors held guns while jumping through windows in an action scene part of the first ever horror movie made by Lithuanian Film Studio in collaboration with Italian production company "Media One".
Set in World War II, the film focuses on Captain Martin Stone who leads a finely-trained, elite platoon of American and Finnish soldiers in an attack on an enemy bunker. Underestimating the enemy's strength, they are quickly beaten back.
The soldiers regroup and find that they are under attack by the dead soldiers they killed minutes earlier. Forced to flee deeper into Russian territory, they realise they have discovered a terrifying secret of World War II. Death is no longer the final frontier.
British Actor Andrew Tiernan who plays Captain Stone said he enjoyed playing the 'good guy'.
"I play Captain Stone in Stones War, which is a zombie horror film set in World War II, and there's a lot of zombies, a lot of shooting and it's quite an amazing film, which is a bit different from the last my film I did which was "300", where I played a hunchback trader. This time I'm the good guy and it is a pretty cool movie, I think people are going to enjoy it," he said.
Finnish actor Mikko Leppilampi, best known for having presented the 2007 Eurovision song contest in Helsinki, played Lieutenant Laakso in the film.
"This is a action movie, this is not...we are not writing history again here, it is very fictional story about the World War II happenings. And yeah, it's a lot of fun, a lot of action. Great thing about my profession is that, you know, I get to do different sorts of jobs. A previous one was playing Romeo, before that I was hosting the Eurovision song contest and now I'm here kicking some zombie butt. So, I'm having a good time here, in Lithuania," he said.
With a budget of around three million Euros "Stone's war" is 29-years-old Finish director Marko Makilaakso's first film, which he also co-wrote.
"It is about American Finnish troops in the second World War who are facing a supernatural enemy, and why I choose to shooting in Lithuania is the facilities here at studio, I can not get them in Finland," he said.
Filming for "Stone's war" should finish on July 28th for a release in the first quarter of 2008. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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