Coming to Comic-Con @Home, acclaimed director Scott Cooper and horror maestro Guillermo del Toro teases their upcoming Searchlight Pictures movie Antlers. Along with how they designed the Wendigo-inspired monster. In addition, the two go in-depth on the craft of filmmaking and how they create a visual style. Moderated by Collider’s editor-in-chief Steven Weintraub.
Due to the current global pandemic, Comic-Con International has made the decision to go online! Comic-Con @Home 2020 is currently happening and will go on until Sunday July 26th. It will feature over 350 separate panels that will be available on the Comic-Con YouTube channel.
The panel for Antlers will be available on Saturday, July 25, 2020, at 01:00 PDT.
Panel YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/00OwS3M0Oy4
Antlers Trailer
In an isolated Oregon town, a middle-school teacher (Keri Russell) and her sheriff brother (Jesse Plemons) become embroiled with her enigmatic student (Jeremy T. Thomas) whose dark secrets lead to terrifying encounters with a legendary ancestral creature who came before them. Based on the short story The Quiet Boy by Nick Antosca, screenplay by C. Henry Chaisson & Nick Antosca and Scott Cooper. Produced by Guillermo del Toro, David S. Goyer, and J. Miles Dale. ANTLERS stars Keri Russell (The Americans, STAR WARS: THE RISE OF THE SKYWALKER), Jesse Plemons (THE IRISHMAN), Graham Greene (WIND RIVER), Scott Haze (VENOM), Rory Cochrane (BLACK MASS), Amy Madigan (GONE BABY GONE) and introducing Jeremy T. Thomas and Sawyer Jones.
The Wendigo as a Horror Monster
The only thing more critical to Del Toro and Cooper than creating a convincing, unique onscreen “monster” was making sure the creature at the heart of ANTLERS drew accurately and respectfully from the Native lore from which it came. And much like the legendary Sasquatch creature of the Pacific Northwest (a.k.a Bigfoot), the Wendigo is as much rooted in regional storytelling as its ensuing place in the imaginations of folklore fans. The production worked with Indigenous Nations consultant Grace L. Dillon while researching and filming aspects of Native American folklore and culture.
The Wendigo (also spelled ‘Windigo’ and ‘Wetiko’) is generally known as a mythological deer-like creature and/or evil spirit in the mythology of the Native American Algonquian tribes, based in the northern forests of Nova Scotia, the East Coast of Canada, and Great Lakes Region of Canada. The Wendigo is widely accepted as a destructive, cannibalistic creature associated with winter, coldness, and starvation, and is present in the traditional belief system of many Algonquinspeaking peoples, including the Ojibwe, the Saulteaux, the Cree, the Naspapi and the Innu. The filmmakers relied heavily on various members of and experts in the Native American community in bringing the Wendigo-inspired monster in ANTLERS to life, including Grace T. Dillon, Anishinaabe, and Native American Advisor, who offered unique expertise.
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