JackKnife Movie wraps featuring Douglas Vermeeren

Award winning filmmaker Adam Jack has just wrapped on his latest project titled Jackknife. Jackknife is certain to make a mark in the film festival circuit as it is one of the most definitive and remarkable films to come from Adam Jack yet. The story is intensely relevant considering the racially charged subject matter. The story follows two black youth who are mistakenly accused of a crime in their community as the actually criminals, the police and community try to race to locate them from fleeing a crime scene.

In the cast as one of the main bad guy is Douglas Vermeeren. This will be the second collaboration between Adam Jack nd Douglas Vermeeren. Vermeeren played officer Van Ravensway in Jack’s last feature The Lurker.

As usual Vermeeren brings a heavy sense of danger and intensity to the villain that is truly frightening. As his character, Billy Lachance pursues the fleeing teens there is truly a sense of dread. An encounter with Lachance will no doubt mean certain death.

When asked about the character of Billy Lachance, Douglas Vermeeren shared some insights into his preparation and performance as the character.

“Billy was an interesting character to play. Without giving too much about the movie away, there is an interesting subplot through the film that both the protagonists and antagonists share. Both of them have a strong sense of loyalty to family. Billy and the protagonist both feel that protecting family is of utmost importance. Naturally both have very conflicting and different ways of doing it. This sense of loyalty alone makes the film incredibly interesting to view the different perspective on how different character interpret that responsibility.”

“One of the things that I also really like about Billy is that he really is quite unpredictable. Even playing him as an actor there were moments where I was even surprising myself. I thought, in this moment Billy could be merciful because that is who he wants to be, or he could be a violent murdering psychopath and perhaps that is what his mood would be. And it wasn’t a crazy over the top choice. Billy, like a snake is always calculating. He can’t be trusted.”

Early film festival reviewers are praising Vermeeren’s performance as Billy. Most expect thatDouglas Vermeeren will once again be recognized for his performance as Billy by most likely winning an award for best supporting actor in this film.

Jackknife shot on location in Ontario Canada. Jackknife is currently in post production and will be coming out to select theatres early 2024.

Great photoshoot today!!!!

Today was a fun day at a photoshoot for promotional materials for a variety of upcoming film projects. Darren Ballingall was such a great photographer for the day. He had some excellent artistic ideals for so many of the things we needed to create. I will definitely be working with him again. Here a few images from today:

Douglas Vermeeren on Bullets, Blades and Blood.

Some of the material we shot today is from the upcoming BULLETS, BLADES & BLOOD. Here are a few others that I thought were quite fun.

Douglas Vermeeren added to the cast of THE LURKER

What a great way to start into Thanksgiving weekend. I have just been added to the cast of the upcoming movie THE LURKER by Adam Jack. I will be playing a policeman again – This time Officer Van Ravensway. Kind of a cool name too. Here’s the poster:

The Lurker

It will be shot in Toronto Canada and starting in the spring. It’s fun to be part of projects like this. I like the idea behind it, which I can’t share yet – but stay tuned.

Part of getting the role was an extensive telephone interview with the director Adam Jack. A very cool guy and fun to connect with. I am looking forward to this. What do you think the fate of Office Ravensway will be? Do you think I get to catch the bad guy? Or will I die trying? Love to hear your thoughts. Leave a comment.

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