Hellhounds on Sci-Fi Channel

Posted by dominie in Events, General, News on August 29th, 2008

The Hollywood Reporter announced that Ricky Schroder (Black Cloud) has just signed on to direct the new television film, Hellhounds, written by Paul A. Birkett of TV’s Not My Life.  “The movie, set in 500 B.C., starts Scott Elrod (Men in Trees) as Kleitos, a Greek warrior who with his companions fights against the hellhounds of Hades to rescue his bride from the Underworld and bring her back to life.”

Michael Prupas (Muse) will executive produce alongside Robert Halmi Sr. and Robert Halmi Jr. of RHI Entertainment.  It will be Schroder’s fifth project with the Halmi’s.  The team began collaborated twenty years ago, during production of Lonesome Dove.  Their latest work, Journey to the Center of the Earth just premiered on Ion Television early this year.

The film will begin lensing this Sunday in Romania.  It will air on Sci-Fi Channel in the coming year and Schroder reveals that we can expect much CGI and special FX.