Variety are reporting that Joe has been cast in a new film called Supremacy. Details are below:
Producers Vincent Cirrincione and Roxanne Avent have set up the indie “Supremacy” with Joe Anderson, Danny Glover and Dawn Olivieri set to star.
Pic, based on a true story, follows a recently paroled white supremacist who, after killing a police officer, takes an African American family hostage.
Deon Taylor is set to direct, with production set to start this month.
Anderson stars in ABC’s “The River” and can also be seen in Open Road’s “The Grey.”
Glover can be seen next in “LUV,” which preemed at Sundance. Olivieri can currently be seen on the Showtime skein “House of Lies.”
‘The River’: Joe Anderson is happy to be out in the jungle
While there are a number of shows where the players are very much aware of the cameras, including “The Office” and “Modern Family,” each of these programs are sitcoms. ABC’s new series “The River” is looking to break that barrier for drama. And according to Joe Anderson, who plays Lincoln Cole on the show, he couldn’t be happier about blazing this trail.
“I wanted some diversity. I was looking for something…[with] some oomph and some balls to it,” he says. “I wanted something that was not going to be procedural where I was going to be standing around a hospital bed or a crime scene or a desk in an office.”
The program centers around a crew that’s being filmed as they search for missing explorer/TV personality Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce Greenwood), Lincoln’s father. This takes them in to the deepest, darkest part of the Amazon River where they encounter mystery that none of them could’ve expected.
The series, which comes from the minds behind the “Paranormal Activity” franchise and Steven Spielberg, delivers the “Paranormal” production style, complete with gyrating camera work, confessionals and spy cameras. Anderson, who is probably best known from his work in the “Twilight” films, enjoys the approach.
“It’s freeing. It keeps you on your game,” Anderson says. “It’s been really interesting to let go…There’s multiple cameras everywhere. There’s not just one camera that is supposedly an invisible fourth wall.”
Despite the scary themes of the show, Anderson says he doesn’t get frightened much during filming. Ok, maybe a little.
“It does get a little treacherous,” he says. “It’s jungle…And if you get turned around, if you can’t see base camp, you get lost pretty quick.”
As for the series, Anderson promises twists and turns comparable to the Amazon itself.
“Whatever you think about any of the characters on the show is not going to be the case,” he says. “By the end of the season, if you’re not completely shocked and surprised because something has flipped on its head, then I don’t know how else to shock you or surprise you. Nothing is what it seems.”
Joe Anderson Talks ‘The Grey’, Rehearsing the Film and Acting in -20 Degree Weather
In Joe Carnahan’s excellent film, The Grey, Joe Anderson plays Flannery, a loudmouth who constantly gets under the skin of his fellow oil-riggers. When their plane goes down, he and the rest of the survivors (Liam Neeson, Frank Grillo, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts, James Badge Dale, Ben Bray and Nonso Anozie) are forced to work together to fend of packs of wolves hungry for their blood.
Anderson is the son British theatre actors and he told me that even though he grew up surrounded by the profession, he didn’t think he’d ever actually be an actor. After backpacking around the world, he decided he wanted to become a director. But since he couldn’t afford coming to America and go to film school, he thought he’d go to drama school to learn about actors. And the rest is history.
Joe talked to me about the shoot and what it was like to work in freezing weather, working with Liam Neeson, and one particularly bad audition where he had to play an espresso machine.
Liam Neeson’s The Grey–cementing the actor’s relatively new-found status as action star–raced past expectations to gross $20 milion in its debut at the domestic box office.
The Grey, directed by Joe Carnahan, led another good weekend at the box office. So far, 2012 revenues are running nearly 10 percent ahead of 2011 as moviegoing continues to pick up the pace.
Tom Ortenberg’s Open Road Films is distributing The Grey, about a group of men stranded in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash (the cast also includes Frank Grillo and Dermot Mulroney). The $25 million pic was produced by Liddell Entertainment and Scott Free Productions.
Audiences gave the action-thriller a B- CinemaScore, with males making up 60 percent of the audience. Heading into the weekend, tracking suggested the film would open in the low to mid teens.
Interview: Acting Is About The Head Space, The Honesty, The Integrity And The Balls
Joe Anderson is the son of two pedigreed British actors, not that you’d know it from his biggest roles. He’s done his time playing Jane Austen’s older brother (Becoming Jane) and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook (Control), but his lean muscles, shaggy hair and ear for mimicry have made him Hollywood’s new favorite redneck. Following his standout role as a Southern deputy in The Crazies—a must-watch performance in a b-movie that’s terrific fun—Anderson was cast as Flannery in The Grey. A wiry punk with a big mouth, few friends but several ladies (or so he says), he’s the type of all-American scruff who lives on adventure. That is, of course, until adventure tries to take his life.
You’re British, and typically Liam Neeson plays an American. Since Liam was playing Irish, why weren’t you playing British?
It was funny because when I walked into the room to meet Joe Carnahan, according to Joe, I kind of bounded into the room, and he looked at me and said, “You’re Flannery,” immediately. That was almost the first thing he said. Then I said,”Oh, okay” and that was that. We never really discussed it much more. He kind of told me who he though this guy was, and when he saw what I was doing, that was it. I think Flannery has to be American. I just don’t think there are those characters in England. I think he’s quintessentially something from over here. Well at least I think so because I’m from over there, so how would I really know?
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