While Elijah was in Australia for the Comic Con in Perth. He stopped by the Fremantle Market to play the Star Wars theme on the piano and to get some Fudge.
Wood took time out to visit Fremantle markets today, including The Original Fremantle Fudge where he stocked up on the sweet stuff.
“He said he loved Freo, the vibe of it and and walking around the markets,” Mr Edwards said. “He’s a big fudge fan and was very happy to try some.”
This year’s FrightFest film festival opens with the UK premiere of Ant Timpson’s deviously edgy stunner Come to Daddy.
Arrow Video FrightFest, the UK’s biggest genre film festival, runs from Thursday 22 August to Monday 26 August at the Empire Cinema, Leicester Square and the Prince Charles Cinema. The full line up will be announced on Thurs July 4. Festival & day passes go on sale from Sat July 6. Tickets for Individual films are on sale from Sat July 20
More information can be read here: Frightfest
Come to Daddy premiering at the New Zealand International Film Festival on July 26 and July 31. More details can be read on the site.
Elijah recently attended the Supanova Comic Con in Sydney. Pictures have been added from the event.
Update: A few more pics can be found here: Dailymail
Actors, directors, and filmmakers often use real life subjects as inspirations for their works. Characters like Moe from The Simpsons, Kramer from Seinfeld, even Nacho Libre had real life inspirations. In Elijah Wood’s new role as a DJ and self-proclaimed music business mover-and-shaker in the film Come to Daddy, director Ant Timpson revealed he wanted the actor to emulate producer/DJ Skrillex.
“When Ant sent me the script, it came with a photo of Skrillex,” said Wood. “No joke. He was like, ‘This is kind of what I’m imagining.’ And I was like, Oh, f—, he must be kidding. Skrillex is fine. [But] his look is more extreme. I was like, ‘Oh s—, that is what he has in his head.’ And as we got into production, actually, his ideas got crazier. Like, Skrillex was mild in comparison. So, the costume design stuff, and the hair, and all of that, that was really a collaboration. I was like, ‘He has to be human, we have to relate to him on some level. He can’t be a total alien.’”
Come to Daddy follows Wood’s character in the film, Norval, as he visits his father (Stephen McHattie) for the first time since the latter abandoned him and his mother decades previously. As you can see in the clip below, the look Wood ended up going with is far more extreme than the Skrillex inspiration he was given.
The film released to theaters earlier this year.
While one could easily confuse ‘Come to Daddy’ with the name of an adult film, it is actually a new horror comedy starring Elijah Wood (‘Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency’,’The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring’). The movie premiered last month at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and the U.S. distribution rights were just picked up by Saban Films. The distributor was planning a theatrical release and shared the deal at the Cannes Film Festival with XYZ Films representing international sales of the feature.
Wood plays a man named Norval, who is in his thirties. When he gets a surprise invitation from his estranged father, he “travels to a remote Oregon cabin to reconnect with” him. Also starring in the feature are Stephen McHattie (‘Pontypool’) and Martin Donovan (‘Weeds’).
‘Come to Daddy’ is the directorial debut by producer Ant Timpson who crafted the film around a script that Toby Harvard penned around Timpson’s initial pitch. On the production end of things, Mette-Marie Kongsved and Laura Tunstall are tackling it for Nowhere with Daniel Bekerman of Toronto’s Scythia Films, “Katie Holly of Dublin’s Blinder Films, Emma Slade for New Zealand-based Firefly Films and Harvard.”
No full trailer or release date has been announced yet.
Adding new pics from back when Elijah was very young to current. New pics from Radio Flyer Los Angeles Premiere, The Sandlot Premiere, Titanic Premiere, Jay Leno, The Family Film Awards and much more
