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OSIRIS UNBOUND (2014) Announcement Trailer

OSIRIS UNBOUND (2014) Announcement Press Release

UNIVERSAL AND ENIGMA ANNOUNCE “SINS OF THE MARTYR” SEQUEL

 LEATHERHEAD, Surrey, Oct. 10, 2013

- Universal Pictures, a division of NBC Universal, and Enigma Entertainment announced today that pre-production on OSIRIS UNBOUND, the eagerly anticipated follow up to last years “Sins of the Martyr”, is officially underway in Surrey, England. Shooting will take place in the United Kingdom in addition to France and Australia. The film will be released to cinemas in summer 2014. Universal Pictures will distribute internationally, while StudioCanal will distribute domestically. Directed and written by Nicholas Ashurst and Philip Smith (“Sins of the Martyr”) the production will travel the world and utilize digital photography to bring to the screen a script based on an original idea and characters created by Ashurst and Smith.

In Enigma Entertainment's OSIRIS UNBOUND, Agent Davidson (LEE DAVIDSON), recovering from the events of “Sins of the Martyr”, finds himself at the centre of a global conspiracy involving an ancient cult, a corrupt government agency and a journey across multiple continents to uncover the truth behind this latest threat to himself and those he serves to protect. He teams up with disgraced O.S.I.R.I.S. agent Lucas Thorne (NICHOLAS ASHURST) and a pair of unlikely allies (RICHARD YOUNG and PHILIP SMITH) in order to battle an old adversary (JAMES RICHARDSON), who has re-emerged from the shadows, and his ruthless hit-man (ZUBIN PAREKH), who is torn between the will of his employer and the will of God. Together, Davidson and Thorne face their limits as they endeavour to overcome this formidable foe.

"We're so delighted to re-collaborate on the follow up to our smash hit “Sins of the Martyr” and be working once again with Lee Davidson. We've got a great script, an extraordinary cast and an incredibly talented creative team for this latest Agent Davidson adventure," said Ashurst and Smith.

OSIRIS UNBOUND features an impressive multi-ethnic cast that includes Lee Davidson (“Sins of the Martyr”), Nicholas Ashurst (“France 24”), James Richardson (“The Piano”) with Philip Smith, Zubin Parekh and Richard Young. The film is being co-produced by Nicholas Ashurst and Philip Smith, with Lee Davidson and Zubin Parekh as associate producers. James Richardson and Richard Young serve as executive producers of the film. The behind-the-scenes creative and technical team includes director of photography Philip Smith, production designer Nicholas Ashurst, costume designer Philip Smith, editor Philip Smith, composer James Richardson, visual effects supervisor Nicholas Ashurst, and stunt coordinator Zubin Parekh.

CONTACT      Enigma Entertainment, Philip Smith, (+44)7972855066, pip_smith73@hotmail.co.uk

Mood Board #21: TITLE

The last item on the moodboard is the potential title - Metanoia. We were considering using this as the title, but we have now decided against it and are considering using a different title. The word metanoia is a Greek word literally meaning 'changing one's mind', however it has other different connotations as well. In theology, the word metanoia is interchangeable with the word 'repentance', which means turning away from your sins and starting a new life. This is relevant to the film in no way whatsoever, but I'm sure we could make it work. In psychology metanoia involves reforming one's psyche as a type of healing process and is a proposed explanation for the phenomenon of psychotic breakdown. This again has no relevance whatsoever. In philosophy metanoia is about rejecting consumerism and materialism as the basis of progress. This also has no relevance, so the title as a whole is completely irrelevant apart from the fact that it is a cool word. But in all fairness nowadays audience's don't care about what the title means, as long as it sounds exciting or intelligent. Half of the James Bond film titles take this stance, such as The Living Daylights, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World is not Enough and Quantum of Solace. Overall we've decided to ditch this title, as we don't want to have a completely irrelevant title that only stands up when in comparison with James Bond films.

Mood Board #20: BALACLAVA DUDES

One of the features that our recent films have started to share is that the antagonists' mercenaries all wear balaclavas. The balaclavas solve a plethora of problems. Firstly they allow us to reuse actors, so that we don't have to have an enormous cast to make it look like we have an army of mercenaries. Another benefit of the balaclavas is to make all the mercenaries look the same, so that if a character doesn't have a balaclava on they would stand out and the audience would know that they are a key character that they should pay attention to. To make them look more similar, we also tend to give them all black coats or hoodies, but there is a bit of variety in this to retain the ragtag mercenary feel of the troops.

We have a number of toy guns at our disposal that we've spray painted black. Many of the guns were bought at budget prices at poundland, but after spray painting them they look just as good as more expensive guns, albeit a bit smaller. Shotguns are something which we struggle with, not because we don't have any of them, but because most of the shotguns are very small and can look a bit stupid. Our guns specialist, Zubin Parekh, owns a number of BB guns that have been sprayed black, and these tend to look a lot better than the poundland guns. The BB guns can also be adjusted to look slightly different; the pistol can have a silencer and the machine gun can be adjusted to look like a sniper rifle. This variety of guns gives us a wide choice of combat troop types with which we can make an interesting selection of battle scenes.