Fallen (2016 film)

Fallen
Official poster of the Fallen.
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Scott Hicks
Produced by Mark Ciardi
Gordon Gray
Bill Johnson
Jim Seibel
Written by Nichole Millard
Kathryn Price
Michael Ross
Based on Fallen
by Lauren Kate
Starring
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography Alar Kivilo
Edited by Scott Gray
Production
company
Mayhem Pictures
Distributed by Destination Films
Release date
  • November 10, 2016 (2016-11-10) (Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia)
  • March 10, 2017 (2017-03-10) (United Kingdom)[1]
  • September 1, 2017 (2017-09-01) (United States)
Running time
 92 minutes[1]
Country
  • United States
  • Hungary[2]
Language English
Budget $40 million[3]
Box office $41 million[4]

Fallen is a 2016 American romantic fantasy drama film directed by Scott Hicks, based on Lauren Kate’s 2009 novel of same name. The film stars Addison Timlin, Jeremy Irvine, Harrison Gilbertson, and Joely Richardson.[5]

The film was originally set to be released in fall 2015, but it was confirmed by author Lauren Kate that it would be released in 2016 for countries including Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. Lotus Entertainment will distribute the film,[6] the release was on November 10 in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia, confirmed by Kate. It is still unknown when Fallen will be released in Australia. The film saw a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2017.[1] On August 2, 2017 Lauren Kate confirmed that Fallen was scheduled to be released in the United States by Vertical Entertainment. It was released direct-to-VOD on August 8, 2017, and October 10, 2017 on DVD/Blu-ray.

Plot

Lucinda "Luce" Price is sent to "Sword and Cross", a reform/college prep school for young adults, after she is blamed for the death of Trevor, a boy who Luce once had a crush on. After they kissed, Trevor was killed in a fire shortly after Luce saw the "shadows"; paranormal, ink-like smudges that Luce has been seeing since childhood.

Upon arriving at her new school, Luce meets various students, including Cameron "Cam", who has taken an interest in her; Arriane Alter, who takes Luce under her wing; Molly Zane, who harasses Luce; Pennyweather "Penn", whom Luce befriends; and Daniel. She also meets Miss Sophia, a religious scholar teacher.

During detention (picking up trash), Luce is almost crushed by an avenging angel statue. Later, Cam flirts with Luce and almost kisses her before inviting her to a party. At the party, Luce begins to develops a crush on Cam, but this is hindered by her constant feeling of an unusual connection with Daniel. Molly then shows up, then proceeds to harass and almost kill Luce before Arriane intervenes. As Luce leaves, she sees the "shadows" again.

Luce overhears Sophia telling Daniel that Cam may have been behind the angel statue almost falling on Luce. The two then realize that Luce is listening to them, and Daniel goes after Luce. After he finds her, he reveals that, during class, he was working on a graphic novel. In this novel, a boy and a girl are in love with each other, but are cursed such that every time they kiss, the girl dies; the girl then reincarnates, meets the boy (who never ages or changes) 17 years later, and they kiss again, only for the cycle to repeat.

Cam lures Luce to a club, where he tries to kiss her, only to be violently interrupted by Daniel, who yells that he had told Cam to stay away from Luce; Luce, fleeing the scene, then tells Penn what happened. Penn and another boy, Todd, help Luce sneak into the school and discover a photo from 1854 of Daniel and Luce. As Penn wanders off to retrieve the photo from the printer, Luce goes to the library, where she sees the "shadows" again. Another mysterious fire then occurs that ends up engulfing the library and killing Todd. Daniel rescues an unconscious Luce from the fire.

Luce finds Daniel on a roof top, where it is revealed that Luce and Daniel are the boy and girl from Daniel's graphic novel, and that Daniel is a fallen angel, which explains his immortality. The two kiss, but Cam arrives, telling Luce that she has not been baptized, meaning that Lucifer will come for her. He tries to convince Luce to pick him instead of Daniel, but Daniel whisks Luce away and drops her off with Sophia, leaving to fight Cam and keep Lucifer from coming for Luce.

As the two fight, Cam reveals that he was not the one behind Luce's murder; meanwhile, Sophia kills Penn. Luce screams, causing Daniel to come to Luce's aid and protect her from Sophia, who was actually the one trying to kill Luce. Sophia justifies her murders by explaining that, with Luce gone, Daniel would have been forced to choose a side and order would have been restored. The shadows show up behind Sophia as she is talking and consume her.

Daniel explains to a visibly shaken Luce that Luce's lack of a baptism would cause her next death to be permanent; Sophia thought that this would cause Daniel to choose Heaven. He also tells her that Lucifer will indeed come for her due to her lack of a baptism. He tells her that he must take her somewhere safe, which he proceeds to do as the two declare their love for each other.

Cast

Production

Development

Lotus Entertainment[7] is the producer in charge of taking the adaptation to the cinema, initially when the novel was bought in December 2009, the producing company Walt Disney Pictures was the first to buy the whole saga since Fallen ones consists of 5 books and an annex, In total 6, but by the middle of 2013, Disney declined and withdrew from the project, leaving all production to Lotus Entertainment.[8] The post-production began in May 2014 after the recordings were finished in Budapest, Hungary.[9]

Pre-production

Pre-production started from September 2013, while recordings began in February 2014 in Budapest, Hungary, recordings were spread over 7 months of recordings, 5 months of tape recordings and 3 months of voice recordings, later the film had been finished in April 2016, the film was two years in pre-production.[2] Origo Film Group studios in Budapest were chosen for the film's production, work on the "angels" flight scenes and the construction of some planes of exterior areas, in the studios, could be analyzed and viewed detail the elaboration and the final work before the introduction of the special effects.[10]

Casting

On August 16, 2013, two main characters were announced, Addison Timlin[11] would play Lucinda "Luce" Price and Jeremy Irvine[12] would play Daniel Grigori, both were released by writer Lauren Kate on their website. Later on September 25, 2013 it was officially announced that the Australian Harrison Gilbertson[13][14] would play Cameron "Cam" Briel, the third main character. On January 19, 2014 it was officially confirmed in Australia "IF" magazine on its website that Australia's Sianoa Smit-McPhee would play "Molly", the antagonistic character.[15]

On February 17, it was announced by a Twitter message in the official account of the actress Hermione Corfield her stay in Budapest, days later would confirm her participation in the adaptation of Fallen side in the role of "Gabbe."[16] On March 1, 2014 actress Juliet Aubrey confirmed her involvement in the adaptation as Luce's mother, Doreen Price.[17] On February 18, 2014 was officially announced that actress Daisy Head would play Arriane Alter, this was released by the father of the actress via Twitter.[18] On April 9, 2014, the remaining members of the rest of the cast were officially announced on the website of Fallen Writer, Lauren Kate. The actor Malachi Kirby will play Roland Sparks, the English actress Lola Kirke will be the one of life to Penn and Chris Ashby like Todd Hammond, the other actors that already had been confirmed like Hermione Corfield (Gabbe), Daisy Head (Arriane Alter) and Sianoa Smit-McPhee (Molly), have also been confirmed by the writer officially on their website, later the rest of the remaining characters were officially confirmed.[19]

Curiously, the actor Jeremy Irvine[20] who incarnated fallen angel (Daniel), was involved in the casting process for other young adult franchises that became adapted into films, such as, The Hunger Games for the role of Peeta Mellark and in Divergent for the role of Tobias 'Four' Eaton; both were rejected by him. Later in the auditions of Fallen, Irvine was fascinated by the script and chose to stay with the project.[21]

Filming

After the change of producers, the producers and the director Scott Hicks[22] began the search of the set, the chosen place was the European country of Hungary; Approximately 2 km from the capital of Hungary was the place chosen to begin the recordings, but were different places where Dark was recorded, the first was Tura Castle, would be the main enclosure that would conform to Sword & Cross, together with the castle Wenckheim-kastély (Szabadkígyós) also located in Hungary, the library would be another enclosure apart where they were filmed, the three buildings formed the reformatory.[23] Subsequently, filming date had been established at the beginning of September, but was delayed until February 9, 2014 in Budapest.[24] There were five months of recordings plus two extra weeks of voice recording between the end of July and August.[25][26]

The first building forms the classrooms, the reception and the bedrooms,[27] the second building houses the swimming pool and the third building houses the library; it is noteworthy that the cemetery that is narrated in the book was omitted.[28]

Marketing

Lauren Kate and Addison Timlin at the Comic Con Experience in Brazil promoting the film in December 2016

By the end of 2016, the trailer for Fallen leaked in the Philippines, the first country to be chosen for the premiere of the film, with low resolution and poor quality of image and sound. Lotus Entertainment had to re-edit the trailer, modify small scenes and include credits at the end, once it had leaked.

The leak forced the company to set a release date. It started a speculation about the delay the film suffered for years. However it was known that Fallen did not have a distribution company. Later Relativity Media, directed by Ryan Kavanaugh, was interested in distributing it, after several days of negotiation. In the end the release date was greenlit, with the premiere taking place at the Philippines.[29][30] The film was scheduled to be released on September 1, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment.[31]

In December 2016, the film was promoted at the Brazilian Comic-Con Experiencie in São Paulo, where Fallen had its own panel. A press conference took place with Lauren Kate (writer of Fallen) and Addison Timlin (Lucinda Price). During the event the Brazilian trailer was shown for the fans.[32]

Reception

Critical reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 7% based on 14 reviews, with an average rating of 3.2/10.[33]

Sequels

In December 2014, it was announced that Torment, the second installment in the Fallen book series, was in development.[3] It is unknown whether the last two novels, Passion and Rapture, and the spin-off novel, Unforgiven, will be adapted as well. In 2017, producer Kevan Van Thompson asked the fans if they want an adaptation of Torment, leaving the possibility open.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fallen (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. January 9, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "'FALLEN' Movie Wraps Production in Hunfary". Your Entertainment Corner. May 15, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  3. 1 2 McNary, Dave (December 18, 2014). "'Fallen' Sequel in Development at Aspire (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Web, Omelete (December 12, 2016). "Fallen taking in the world". Omelete.com.br. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Fleming Jr, Mike (August 16, 2013). "Lotus, Mayhem Set Addison Timlin, Jeremy Irvine For Gothic YA Novel Pic 'Fallen'". Deadline.
  6. ↑ "Ryan Kavanaugh Twitter message". September 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ Dave, McMary (December 17, 2013). "Lotus Entertainment-Fallen Movie". Varety. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  8. ↑ N/A, N/A (December 17, 2013). "Official website of Fallen in Lotus Entertainment". Word and Film. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Patrick, McDonald (October 14, 2013). "Scott Hincks film in Budapest". Adelaide Now.com. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Studios film Fallen in Budapest, Hungary". ORIGO Film Group. February 11, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  11. ↑ Amy, Wilkinson (August 16, 2013). "Addison Timlin as Lucinda Prince and Jeremy Irvine as Daniel Grigori". Hollywood Crush. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  12. ↑ Kate, Lauren (August 16, 2013). "Officially Cast". Officially Cast, page Lauren Kate. Archived from the original on January 1, 2015. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  13. ↑ Jeff, Sneider (October 1, 2013). "'Need for Speed's' Harrison Gilbertson to Star in YA Adaptation 'Fallen' (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  14. ↑ Patrick, McDonald (October 10, 2013). "Officially Cast by Lauren Kate". Officially Cast. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Don, Groves (January 20, 2013). "Adelaide ties to US indie thriller Fallen". IF.Australia.com. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  16. ↑ Hermione, Corfield (February 15, 2014). "Here I gooooo... Budapest". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  17. ↑ Juliet, Aubrey (January 1, 2014). "Juliet Aubrey as Doreen Price". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  18. ↑ Anthony, Head (March 22, 2014). "Daisy Head as Arriane Alter". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  19. ↑ Lauren, Kate (March 22, 2014). "Official the fallen cast". Page by Lauren Kate. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Jeremy Irvine will be no The Hunger Games". The hop.org. May 11, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  21. ↑ Lauren, Kate (August 1, 2013). "Official the fallen cast". Hollywood Crush. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  22. ↑ Thompson, Kevan (December 6, 2013). "Scouting tomorrow again on "Fallen" and interviewing crew for the Production team". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  23. ↑ Kate, Lauren (October 30, 2013). "The Dallas Morning News, Lauren Kate Interview". Twitter. Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  24. ↑ "February 9 film in Hungary". Random House.com.es. December 20, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  25. ↑ Kevan, Thomson (December 5, 2013). "90% of locations locked now for "Fallen". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  26. ↑ Kevan, Thomson (December 6, 2013). "Fallen team in Budapest". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  27. ↑ Polis, Natasha (February 16, 2014). "The 'Fallen' YA Adaptation Is Heading into Production in Budapest". Page to Premiere. Archived from the original on August 25, 2014. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
  28. ↑ Lauren, Kate (May 7, 2014). "Exclusive: Lauren Kate's Top 5 Surprises from the 'Fallen' Set". Word and Film. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  29. ↑ Alfa, Kleramie (November 4, 2016). "The Fallen' Movie Cast Invades Philippines This November". Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  30. ↑ Chris, N/A (November 10, 2016). ""FALLEN", THE MOVIE ABOUT ANGELS PREMIERES IN MANILA". Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  31. ↑ Crust, Kevin (April 21, 2017). "Every single movie coming out this summer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  32. ↑ Daniel, Albuquerque (November 16, 2016). "LAUREN KATE, AUTORA DA SAGA "FALLEN", É CONFIRMADA NA COMIC CON EXPERIENCE". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
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