With The Asylum's next release, the raunchy comedy Celebrity Sex Tape, less than two weeks away - it comes out Valentine's Day - I thought we'd take a look at the film's director, Scott Wheeler, a guy who has an extensive resume in and out of The Asylum.
Wheeler began his career in visual effects in the late 1980's, working on such projects as Xena, Space: Above and Beyond, Buffy and Millennium before segueing into films. In 2007, Wheeler became visual effects supervisor at The Asylum, a position he held for 23 films including Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus, Mega Piranha, Transmorphers and 100 Million B.C., just to name a few. In 2008 he directed for the first time: The Asylum's take on Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; Wheeler also wrote that film's script. Journey marked the first of four films (to date) Wheeler has directed, and all for The Asylum: Journey, Transmorphers: Fall of Man, MILF and now Celebrity Sex Tape.
Bottom line, then, Celebrity Sex Tape is in the hands of a seasoned Asylum vet. And if MILF is any indication, we can expect a salacious but intelligent, horny yet heartfelt film from CST. Find out on the sweetest day of the year, February 14th, when the film hits DVD...
Another week, another Asylum release; keeping up with this stuff is turning in a full-time job. With 3 Musketeers only a week on DVD and Zombie Apocalypse less than 48 hours in the past, this Tuesday sees the release of the studio's apocalyptic thriller 11/11/11, which I've already seen and posted my notes on (scroll down a teeny bit), and while I don't have time to go into everyone that worked on this fine film, I thought a profile of writer/director/actor Keith Allan was in order, so here you go:
While there isn't a ton of biographical info on Mr. Allan on IMDB - actually none - his resume speaks for itself. Allan started his Hollywood career acting, landing his first role in 2000's excellent Meat Loaf biopic, To Hell and Back, in which he played Tim Curry. As in Tim Curry. From there Mr. Allan had roles in various notable TV series like "Will & Grace," "Charmed," "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," "CSI," "Star Trek: Enterprise" and "Scrubs," among many others.
In addition to his work in front of the camera, Mr. Allan has a pretty extensive resume on the other side of filmmaking as well, most notably in visual effects, where he provided(?) opticals on such films as Amityville: Dollhouse, Prozac Nation, The Prophecy and Full Tilt Boogie. 11/11/11 marks his debut as both a feature writer and director. His only other stint as either came with the 2008 short Billy and Sally Go Bionic. But as I've mentioned, the dude has chops.
The film lands on DVD tomorrow, so set your alarm accordingly.
With The Asylum's next release, the raunchy comedy Celebrity Sex Tape, less than two weeks away - it comes out Valentine's Day - I thought we'd take a look at the film's director, Scott Wheeler, a guy who has an extensive resume in and out of The Asylum.
