While that feeling of uncertainty that Thorwarth and his team were experiencing at the time of the shut-down, for special effects legend Mark Coulier, the delay ended up being advantageous since it gave him and his team more time to prepare for the ambitious number of effects that were going to be needed in order to bring all the bloodthirsty vamps to life for Blood Red Sky. It's called COVID-19, and the Czech Republic is actually closing all the borders, so I don't know what’s going to happen.’ And after all these years of working on this movie, I was back at home in less than 24 hours, not knowing if we were ever going to finish Blood Red Sky.” I'm not sure if we can ever finish this movie, because there's a thing going around the world. He was like, ‘Ben, we're sending you a van right now, and you're going to get on that van and you're going to drive back to Berlin. “Suddenly, I get a call on a Friday night from my line producer, Mark Nolting. Then, most of the actors finally began arriving and everything was coming together. Everything was going great I did some of the second unit directing outside with all the SWAT shots, Peter was handling everything with the actors, and Netflix was happy with the rushes. We had shot something like five to 10 days, I'm not sure anymore, but it was all the stuff outside at the military base.
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But just as production was getting underway, that’s when the news about COVID-19 began to spread worldwide, and once again, Thorwarth and everyone involved with Blood Red Sky was grounded mid-flight, so to speak, and left in limbo.Īccording to Munz, “We started to shoot the movie at the start of 2020 in Prague, finally. How much money do you need?’ We couldn’t believe it was finally happening.”Īfter waiting more than a decade and a half, Peter Thorwarth was finally getting to make his action/horror movie. I want this to be the first movie that I do out of this department. Peter told him that we were just in turnaround with this sales agent for it, and David said, ‘Okay, please don't sign the paper. He asked Peter what happened to that weird script that we were trying to do like eight years ago with the vampires. “The call was from David Kosse, who is now the new head of Netflix original international films.
“Weirdly enough, Peter gets a call out of nowhere, and here this is when the circle closes, '' explained Munz.
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Despite feeling like the deck was stacked against them, Peter and his producing team at Rat Pack, led by Christian Becker, decided to purchase an old airplane that had been used for a TV series back in the nineties, just in case Blood Red Sky might eventually come together. But Kosse moved on from Universal, the project languished in limbo for years, and both Thorwatch and Munz thought that Blood Red Sky would never get to take flight. The sitcom never got picked up, but Thorwath realized that he might be onto something with the outlandish movie concept at the center of the series, and decided to write a script anyway, despite the fact that German audiences tend to appreciate more serious drama-driven cinematic fare.Įventually, the script for Blood Red Sky ended up in front of an executive named David Kosse at Universal International nearly nine years ago who was immediately taken by the concept at the center of Thorwath’s script. And while the film that has been affectionately dubbed “Vampires on a Plane” has become something of an overnight sensation with streaming audiences worldwide, it may come as a surprise that Thorwarth’s first foray into the world of horror was nearly 16 years in the making.Īccording to Blood Red Sky producer Benjamin Munz, the concept of the film was actually a subplot that had been part of a German sitcom pitch that Thorwath had been trying to get going decades prior which was centered around an up-and-coming filmmaker who had the “ridiculous” idea of making a movie about vampires taking over a transatlantic flight.
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Blood Red Sky also cracked the top 10 in more than 90 different territories and it even hit the number one spot on Netflix’s platform in 57 different countries during its first week of release as well. The horror/action hybrid in Germany has become an international streaming sensation since its July 23rd debut, racking up more than 50 million views globally. Since its debut on Netflix late last month, the sky has been the limit for Peter Thorwarth’s Blood Red Sky.
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