Jackknife shares first poster into the marketplace

Adam Jack’s new film Jackknife is soon to be released and one of the posters just dropped today. Many are already feeling that this film will be another festival darling just like Adam Jack’s very last film The Lurker. So far the Lurker has won over 60 awards in international festivals. However this time Jackknife is quite a change from his normal storytelling and genre. Jackknife is a thriller film about a set of black teens who get caught in a dangerous situation of stereotypical misunderstanding around a murder that has then fleeing for their life. Their pursuers; the police, dangerous criminals and concerned citizens.

We caught up with Douglas Vermeeren portraying a character named Billy Lachance in the film. “One of the really important themes in Jackknife is family. There are so many different ways that this idea of family, protecting your family, discovering your family and reinventing your family n this movie it really will get people thinking.” This is the second time Douglas Vermeeren has worked with Adam Jack. The first time Vermeeren worked with Jack was in the film The Lurker. In that film he portrayed police Officer Van Ravensway.

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Douglas Vermeeren in BLACK CREEK

Douglas Vermeeren has recently been cast as one of the main bad guys on the martial arts western film Black Creek. Black creek is the latest feature film by martial arts legend Cynthia Rothrock. The film is being shot on the Mescal Film Set her Tucson Arizona. The film set has hosted several important western films such as Tombstone featuring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer (1993) The Quick and the Dead, featuring Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe (1995) Outlaw Josey Wales, with Clint Eastwood (1976) Tom Horn, with Steve MCQueen(1980) and many others.

Vermeeren is no stranger to western movies having appeared in several in his home province of Alberta in Canada. Alberta is another hot spot for filming western movies.

While not many details have been released yet about the film Black Creek, Vermeeren plays one of the principal bad guys in the film. This villain called, Hank Winslow runs a notorious bare knuckle fight club on the Wild West. In this arena people are forced to fight to the death for the amusement of the masses in the township of Black Creek.

The features many of cinemas top martial arts action stars including Don “The Dragon” Wilson, Richard Norton, Benny “The Jet” Urquidez, Keith Cooke and many others.

The film wrapped production November 13, 2023 and is expected to be released in Spring of 2024.

Douglas Vermeeren and Cynthia Rothrock

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Douglas Vermeeren as Sheriff Bellamy on FRESH MEAT

Douglas Vermeeren as Sheriff Bellamy on Daniel Turns’ Horror Masterpiece FRESH MEAT

Douglas Vermeeren is excited to be portraying Sherriff Bellamy on the upcoming horror movie FRESH MEAT by writer/director Daniel Turres. While many of the details of this production are still under wraps there are a few things that can be said about this upcoming horror epic.

HI: What can you tell us about the Sheriff form the film?

Douglas Vermeeren: He’s not your typical horror movie sheriff.

HI: What do you mean by that?

Douglas Vermeeren: I think there have been a lot of great sheriffs and cops in horror movies over the years. But I think Sheriff Bellamy really doesn’t care about people. At least not those in real danger. He doesn’t like people. He’s not nice and he just wants things to stay quiet. He has one principle goal and that is to contain what gets discovered int he abandoned prison. I think other horror cops probably are more compassionate. (Laughs)

HI: How did you get the role of Sheriff Bellamy?

Douglas Vermeeren: I met Daniel (Turres) at the Cannes Film Festival in France last year. He and I hit it off right away. He is really a great guy. We have a lot in common. We talked about the script and he offered me the role. It definitely looked like it was going to be fun so I accepted. The rest is history.

HI: What was you favourite part about portraying the Sheriff and what was your hardest part?

Douglas Vermeeren: Those are both difficult questions to answer without giving away important plot points from the film. I think that one of my favourite parts that I might be able to share are just some of lines that the Sheriff has. It was well written and super memorable. I think Sheriff Bellamy has such a unique flavour all to his own. And I love the accent he has. He’s a charming old cuss. And the most difficult part??? Well, you’ll have to see the end of the movie for that.

Douglas Vermeeren as Sheriff Bellamy outside the Abandoned Prison in FRESH MEAT

HI: Is it true that they used make up to age you?

Douglas Vermeeren: Yes, they added around 10 years in make up. The Sheriff was also supposed to be an older gentleman with more wisdom than the others. Again I can’t tell too much but the become of his position and age the Sheriff is supposed to be a character that the others can trust.

HI: So what’s next for you after FRESH MEAT?

Douglas Vermeeren: Right after FRESH MEAT I am heading down to Arizona to portray the bad guy Hank Winslow in Cynthia Rothrock’s new western action film BLACK CREEK. My first day on set is October 30.

HI: Good luck and we wish you the best. We look forward to following FRESH MEAT and seeing it when it comes out. Thank you.

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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.