If you’re a fanboy or sci-fi genre nerd, you’re likely sitting at your computer asking yourself this very question. Ain’t it Cool broke last night that Antal, whose thriller Armored comes in December, was Robert Rodriguez’ choice to direct a “reboot/reimagining/re-verbing” of Predators. While many commenters wondered who’d name their kid Nimrod, but who would?
Antal emerged in 2004 with Kontroll, which took the meanial job of a Budapest subway worker and turned it into a dark comedy as there may or may not be someone throwing people in front of trains. But Bulcsú can’t tell the difference since he never leaves the underground tunnels and could be the one killing people. It starts with a descent into the subterranean setting and ends with an overt ascension to freedom.
Antal’s work can be filled with a sly humor, but when forced to put on the bright lights for mainstream affairs, you wind up with Vacancy: a two-bit thriller that did nothing more than capitalize on the Saw franchise of pretty people being hunted by sick perverts. But Antal can even make this look decent. And his armored car heist story looks fine.
So who is Nimród Antal?
Well, we’ll figure it out once he’s in Austin, shooting CGI predators in the back of Robert Rodriguez’ house.
-John Lichman
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September 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
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