Canada's Maple laps up 'Pontypool'
Company nabs rights to Bruce McDonald thriller
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Written by Tony Burgess, based on his 1998 small-press novel "Pontypool Changes Everything," the pic marks McDonald's entry into alt-horror with a story about a wash-up small-town morning radio DJ who becomes trapped with his crew after getting reports of a rampantly spreading virus.
The pic is the first full-length Canuck feature shot with the Red One 4K HD camera, and is also the first pic shot in that format to screen at the Toronto fest.
McDonald, a vet helmer beloved in Canada for his rock'n'roll pics ("Hard Core Logo," "Road Kill") and a busy TV director ("Degrassi: The Next Generation"), optioned Burgess' novel after reading the gallies over a decade ago.
The Canuck distribution deal was negotiated by Maple's senior veep of theatrical distribution John Bain and co-president Brad Pelman and "Pontypool" exec producer J. Miles Dale and producer Ambrose Roche.
