Gallowwalkers
Short description
Gallowwalkers is a western with horror elements centred on Aman, a gunman living under a curse. His mother, a nun, broke her vow to God to save him before he was born, and the consequence follows him into adulthood: everyone he kills rises again and comes after him. Because his victims cannot be stopped in the usual way, Aman takes on a young recruit to fight at his side, and the two prepare to face a growing force of the undead.
The film was directed by Andrew Goth, who wrote the screenplay with Joanne Reay. It is the first of the two features Goth has directed, followed by MindGamers in 2015. Wesley Snipes plays Aman, with Riley Smith as Fabulos and Tanit Phoenix, Simona Brhlikova, Steven Elder and Jenny Gago among the supporting cast; twenty performers are credited in total. Produced by Boundless Pictures in the United States on a budget of about 17 million dollars, it runs 90 minutes and was released in October 2012.
Audience response has been weak: on IMDb it holds a rating of 3.6/10 from roughly 8,700 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 4.8/10 from around 374 votes. The small gap between the two averages does not disguise how low both sit.
What's left behind the scenes
- Wesley Snipes contributed $1 million as bail to be released for filming.
- The film's equestrian stunts were coordinated by stuntman Elbrus Urtaev, originally from Ossetia.
- The film was completely shot back in 2008, and the sole reason it wasn't released was due to legal issues surrounding the lead actor, Wesley Snipes.
- Based on this film, Radical Comics published a graphic novel (comic book).
- On the seventh day of filming, a sandstorm arose in the desert.
- The final day of filming took place on November 29, 2006.
- Knowing about the legal problems of the lead actor, Wesley Snipes, the studio's screenwriting department wrote the script in such a way that 75% of the footage was shot without his participation.
- The entire concept of the character Kansa was drawn based on actor Kevin Howarth, who subsequently played the role.
- Filming took place in the autumn-winter of 2006 in the desert near the city of Swakopmund, Namibia.
- The producers of the film, starring Wesley Snipes, hired a team of lawyers whose task was to find legal grounds to postpone the actor's extradition to the United States from Namibia, where filming was taking place.
- Initially, the script was titled "The Wretched," and Chow Yun-Fat, Paz Vega, and Catalina Sandino Moreno were slated to star in the film. However, funding could not be secured, and the project was put on hold.
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