[TG Daily]
The disaster film genre was originally thought to be left behind in the dust of the 70’s with The Poseidon Adventure and Earthquake.
However, the genre has lived on, albeit in a different form, with Roland Emmerich (ID4, 2012) the current master of disaster. We also recently discussed an upcoming disaster flick called Skyscraper, which will star Paul Walker, and should be a throwback to The Towering Inferno.
Although Earthquake pioneered the gimmick of Sensurround, which was sort of a precursor to THX, there hasn’t really been one in 3D.
This is going to change very soon, because a 3D earthquake film is already in the work, and now the Hollywood Reportertells us about a movie called Inferno in Hong Kong, which is being made by the country’s own “genre specialists” Oxide and Danny Pang, who are twin brothers, and who also gave us Bangkok Dangerous.
3D is also apparently taking off in mainland China, and it should be interesting to see what develops from here. A disaster film in 3D is a good idea, a chop socky film in 3D could also be enormous fun. …
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