From acclaimed director Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Mirror) comes the new action thriller PIRANHA 3D, in the latest and greatest 3D technology and is currently scheduled for release on March 19, 2010. This movie is a remake of the 1978 film Piranha, but it looks like we’ll be experiancing more bloodshed with this one than with the original movie. New 3D worlds add depth and look more natural. It provides a sense of “being there”. The viewer becomes more emotionally involved and behaves and acts as they would in the actual situation. So when PIRANHA 3D hits theaters in March it may quickly become one of the most viewed 3D horror films of 2010. Once you see the ravenously hungry fish tearing apart innocent victims you’ll never go into the lake again.
The movie takes place during spring break in beautiful, tourist-friendly Lake Victoria (which is actually Lake Havasu Arizona). Every year the population of sleepy Lake Havasu explodes to well over double it’s normal population for several wild weekends – the 4th of July and Labor Day weekend, a riot of sun, drunkenness and sex-crazed mayhem. But this year, there’s something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers. Lake Victoria sits in the crater formed by a prehistoric volcanic eruption. The lake may look peaceful, but beneath the placid waters of this painterly lake lurks a deadly menace. When a sudden underwater tremor in Lake Victoria cracks the lake floor open, a prehistoric strain of man-eating ravenous fish are set free which causes people to disappear. The panic begins to build. This once peaceful place becomes a hell of torture and death for anyone in the water. This vacation hotspot turns into an all-you-can-eat buffet for these unstoppable killing machines acting blindly under one primeval impulse: to hunt down anything that moves and strip it to the raw, bleeding bone. In seconds. An unlikely group of strangers must unite together to battle the hideous piranha. Our heroine, local cop Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) and her staff are seriously outnumbered. With time running out and the aquatic carnivores taking over, she must risk everything to destroy swimming predators, save the lake and prevent her family from becoming fish food.
The screenplay is based on a story by Richard Robertson. The script was written by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan of the Feast and Saw series, as well as Chuck Russell (director of “Best the Child”, “The Blob”). Chuck rewrote the script, using elements from the spec script “Killer Fish” by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger plus the original’s script by John Sayles that Joe Dante directed the first time around. Alexandre Aja was selected to helm the film. Production on the film was scheduled to begin late 2008, but was delayed until March 2009. Director Alexandre Aja stated “it’s such a difficult movie, not only because of the technicality of it and the CGI fish, but also because it all happens in a lake. We were supposed to start shooting now, but the longer to leave it the colder the water gets. The movie takes place during Spring Break and, of course, the studio wanted it ready for the summer, but if you’ve got 1,000 people who need to get murdered in the water, you have to wait for the right temperature for the water, for the weather, for everything.”
Producer Mark Canton has some enthusiasm for the project: “We want to take people back to a horror classic which was an enormous success in its day but which will benefit from updated technology.”
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