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SHARK SHOCKER NEXT FOR ROTH

After the cannibal gore-fest

The Green Inferno

, Eli Roth is set to tackle a very different sort on man-eater in

Meg

.

Bonnie Raitt returns later this month

with her 20th studio album

Dig In

Deep

. The follow-up to 2012’s Grammy

Award-winning

Slipstream

, the new

LP was recorded with her touring band

of the last two years and features five

co-writes by Raitt, the most original

compositions she has contributed to

a record since 1998’s

Fundamental

. “I

was really inspired to come up with

some songs that went with grooves

that I missed playing in my live show,

and to dig deeper into some topics I

hadn’t yet mined,” she says. “I don’t

write easily and can get distracted, but

remembering how satisfying it was to

come up with something new of my

own, and writing with guys I love.”

Dig In Deep

is due out on February 26

M

eg

is based on the cult novel by Steve

Alten and tells the story of a 70 foot

prehistoric ancestor of the Great White

– the carcharodon Megalodon – which is

unwittingly unleashed from its home in the

Mariana Trench.

While giant sharks have been featured in a

host of Z-grade movies of late, this will be a

big budget studio production. And Roth has the

perfect credentials to direct: as well as his proven

genre credential, he’s also a bit of a shark fan,

hosting the Discovery Channel shows S

hark After

Dark

and

Shark Week

.

Aside from

Meg

, other upcoming projects

from Roth include a remake of his break through

horror hit

Cabin Fever

(he is producing and may

have a cameo in it) and a sequel to

The Green

Inferno

– which is due here on DVD and Blu-ray

next month – provisionally entitled

Beyond The

Green Inferno

.

The

Far Cry

series has always been a

franchise favourite in the

STACK

office. The

last two entries in the first-person shooter

series have taken gamers from sun-drenched

tropical islands to the icy peaks of Nepal.

Complete with a compelling story, a plethora

of intriguing missions and smooth gameplay,

the

Far Cry

titles have always been good

performers for the French publisher.

The next game in the franchise – released

just over a year after

Far Cry 4

- has taken

everyone by surprise by ditching AK47s

for bows, arrows and spears. A traditional

contemporary setting has been swapped for

the Mesolithic period, or the Stone Age to you

and I, where the protagonist, a hunter named

Takkar, must craft weaponry, tame and ride

animals and attempt to grow your very own

tribe.

With no multiplayer mode attached to

Far Cry Primal

and the absence of co-op

gameplay, the challenge for Ubisoft will be

to deliver a quality single player experience

sufficiently different from what we’ve come to

expect from the series. However, the thought

of hunting a mammoth armed with nothing

more than a bow, an axe or a spear has

certainly piqued our interest.

FAR CRY GOES PRIMAL

The Green Inferno

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