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.”

By Celyn • February 10, 2012 • News & Articles, Projects • Comments: 0

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By Celyn • February 10, 2012 • The River, Video • Comments: 0

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.”

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By Celyn • February 08, 2012 • News & Articles, The River • Comments: 0

Check out the new clip of Joe from The River – remember the premiere is tomorrow!

By Celyn • February 06, 2012 • The River, Video • Comments: 0

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.

For the full interview, click the link here.

By Celyn • February 01, 2012 • News & Articles, The Grey • Comments: 1