EXCLUSIVE: Shadow of the Vampire duo Richard Johns and E. Elias Merhige have launched a TV and film shingle.
Promethean Pictures will be based in the UK and forge projects for the global market. Its first project, dog survival story Howl, is already in development.
Merhige is an arthouse director who helmed 2000’s Shadow of the Vampire with Johns,which starred John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe and was twice Oscar nominated.
Merhige was also behind 2004’s Suspect Zero starring Ben Kingsley and Aaron Eckhart, while other credits include Begotten, Polia & Blastema: A Cosmic Opera and Din of Celestial Birds, which were showcased last weekend in the Screen of the Sky immersive experience at the Brussels Planetarium.
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