Out of Australia comes this great-looking science fiction action film, The Osiris Child. Australian director Shane Abbess has pulled together a love letter to the 80s and 90s sci fi genre for what was apparently a low budget, not that the film comes off that way. Film description:
Set in the future in a time of interplanetary colonisation, Sy (Kellan Lutz), a mysterious drifter, meets Kane (Daniel MacPherson), a lieutenant working for an off-world military contractor, EXOR. The unlikely pair must work together to rescue Kane’s young daughter (Teagan Croft) and reach safety amid an impending global crisis which was brought on by EXOR itself. Teaming up with a pair of renegades (Luke Ford and Isabel Lucas), Kane and Sy clash with EXOR in an attempt to escape while battling the savage creatures that roam the barren planet. Science Fiction Volume One: The Osiris Child is directed by Australian filmmaker Shane Abbess, of the films Infini and Gabriel previously. The screenplay is written by Shane Abbess and Brian Cachia. Surprisingly this is not based on a book or anything else. This film first premiered at Fantastic Fest last fall.
News.com.au also adds:
The Osiris Child was shot in Sydney but also in Coober Pedy in South Australia, the rugged landscape serving as the perfect stand-in for a barren planet.
It’s not the first time the area has been chosen to replicate a lawless dystopia onscreen – it served as the backdrop to 1985’s Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
Lutz enjoyed working on The Osiris Child so much he’s already thinking about the next chapter.
“Hopefully we’ll get to do a sequel,” he said.