Wynter Dark - Fear the Nomen

It has been a while since I have seen anything more about Wynter Dark. Last I heard there would be big angry polcar bears (as shown in the cool concept art)

Just to give you the heads up if you are just joining us - Wynter Dark is set 800 years in the future, in a world gripped by a devastating ice age, the Kingdom of New York is besieged by the Kindom of London and the Empire of Neo Tokyo in a bitter battle for freedom.

Now the films producer, Pete Ford, tells us about the nasty Nomen.

WYNTER DARK is not a fantasy film - it's a post apocolyptic adventure film that looks like a fanatsy film - without the fluff and bluster that useally accompanies that genre.

That fact that WD isn't a fantasy film doesn't mean that it's short of fantastic characters, take these early designs for the NOMEN.

NOMEN are deformed giants whose genetics got scrambled due to being too close to a nuclear reactor that melted down. Several hundred years later the mutations have been passed down and further twisted by in-breeding.

In the film there is a action sequence where our heroes have to pass through NOMAN territory to get to New York - here's a glimpse of that scene from the script ...

But in the back story of WD the NOMEN and GODSELL (our main hero and all round good guy) go waaaayyyyy back. Right back to when GODSELL defended the city against an all out attack from the NOMEN tribes hell bent on storming the gates and feasting on any New Yorker that got within arms reach.

Because the NOMEN are a mutation no two are alike - Matt Hatton has been working up design roughs for these bastards for a while now so I thought it might be good to give you all a glimpse of how they might shape up. There are dozens of these designs, every one different.

Also; nice to see some real horror in the designs, this is not a film that meant to be clean and sterile. All of these are interesting to look at and reveal a surprise element as the scene unfolds.

Check out the cool concept video below that helps describe the Wynter Dark world.

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Don't the news people keep telling us the ice is disappearing?

The excellent author, Neal Asher over on The Skinner posted this interesting article about the effects of global warming and the supposed loss of the ice caps...Quick, quick need to tie this into something to do with films...ah here is some of the concept art from the forthcoming film Wynter Dark (that's got nothing to do with Neal Asher and his books but it features ice and polar bears getting their own back).

Let me juxtapose a section each of two articles from the same website, The Daily Tech. The first one is here, dated June 30th 2008:

Now scientists are predicting that a major milestone will be reached this summer or next -- the disappearance of the North Pole's ice cover during the Arctic Summer.The prediction comes from the U.S.'s top climate researchers at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) in Boulder, Colorado. They predict that in September, there is a good chance that the ice will be gone on the pole.

The next article is from September 3rd, yes, the September referred to above:

Data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) has indicated a dramatic increase in sea ice extent in the Arctic regions. The growth over the past year covers an area of 700,000 square kilometers: an amount twice the size the nation of Germany.

Is there any point in belabouring this?

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Wynter Dark - Back nasty Polar Bears, back I say!

Quiet Earth have news on what sounds like a pretty cool movie (no pun intended), Wynter Dark. The picture above is some concept art which looks amazing.

It is set 800 years in the future, in a world gripped by a devastating ice age, the Kingdom of New York is besieged by the Kindom of London and the Empire of Neo Tokyo in a bitter battle for freedom.

This concept art looks splendid in my opinion and I am really looking forward to finding out more about it.

What do you think of the art work and the idea for the film?

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