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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 Shark 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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