Fallen (2016 film)

Fallen

Official poster of the Fallen.

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Scott Hicks
Produced by Mark Ciardi
Gordon Gray
Bill Johnson
Jim Seibel
Written by Nichole Millard
Kathryn Price
Michael Ross
Based on Fallen
by Lauren Kate
Starring
Music by Mark Isham
Cinematography Alar Kivilo
Edited by Scott Gray
Production
company
Mayhem Pictures
Distributed by Destination Films
Release date
  • November 10, 2016 (2016-11-10) (Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia)
  • March 10, 2017 (2017-03-10) (United Kingdom)[1]
  • September 1, 2017 (2017-09-01) (United States)
Running time
 92 minutes[1]
Country
  • United States
  • Hungary[2]
Language English
Budget $40 million[3]
Box office $41 million[4]

Fallen is an American romantic fantasy film directed by Scott Hicks, based on the novel of same name by Lauren Kate. The film stars Addison Timlin, Jeremy Irvine, Harrison Gilbertson, and Joely Richardson.[5]

The film was originally set to be released in fall 2015, but it was confirmed by author Lauren Kate that it would be released in 2016 for countries including Malaysia, Philippines and Singapore. Lotus Entertainment will distribute the film,[6] the release was on November 10 in the Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia, confirmed by Kate. It is still unknown when Fallen will be released in Australia. The film saw a theatrical release in the United Kingdom on March 10, 2017.[1] On August 2, 2017 Lauren Kate confirmed that (Fallen) is scheduled to be released in the United States on September 8, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment. August 8, 2017 on-demand and October 10, 2017 DVD/Blu-ray.

Plot

Luce is sent to "Sword and Cross" a reform/college prep school for young adults, after she is blamed for the death of Trevor, a boy Luce once had a crush on. After they kissed, Trevor was killed in a fire shortly after Luce saw the "shadows".

Upon arriving at her new school, Luce is briefed on the rules and history of Sword and Cross by Randy, and encounters Cameron, another student, as he is brought in via a police car and in handcuffs. They make eye contact and seemingly a connection.

Arriane Alter, an outgoing girl with long black hair, takes Luce under her wing, and informs her of the status quo of Sword and Cross. Arriane says that the third floor of the dormrooms are for students with mental problems, and is momentarily dumbfounded when Luce tells Arriane her room is on the third floor, apologizing soon after.

Luce visits the library, where she meets Miss Sophia, a grey-haired religious scholar teacher, who gives Luce her books for her classes and gives her a slip for the "special collections" section of the library. As she wanders through, she begins to see the return of "The Shadows", paranormal, ink-like smudges that Luce has been seeing since childhood. She then sees Daniel sitting by a window with a sketch and charcoal pencil and approaches him. Daniel wakes up when he realizes Luce's presence. They look at each other before Daniel quickly gets up to leave.

As Luce is heading to class, she is confronted by Molly Zane, who seems to know about an incident in Luce's past. Molly starts taunting Luce, calling her a psycho, until Luce loses patience and hits Molly back. They are caught by Randy, who reprimands both of them, even though he knows Molly started the fight, as Molly is known for her trouble-making. Luce is punished for "taking the bait" and sentenced to lawn duty. Molly is brought to be punished elsewhere.

After the fight, Luce goes to the bathroom, where she meets Pennyweather "Penn", a quirky student and office aid, whom Luce befriends. The two instantly bond, and Penn later reveals that she can access anybody's personal records, telling Luce that she is a "very powerful friend to have".

The next day, Luce is scheduled for her detention of lawn duty. While she is picking up trash, Luce looks up at an avenging angel statue and seems to sense something just before the statue breaks and falls, nearly crushing Luce. Daniel saves Luce from the falling statue, but makes a swift exit after.

Later, Cam approaches Luce and convinces her to have breakfast with him, even though she says she is late for class. Cam blatantly flirts with Luce while they eat and almost kisses her before the school bell rings. Cam invites Luce to Roland Sparks' party as they walk to class and she accepts, later inviting Penn to go with her.

At the party, Cam greets Luce warmly. Luce begins to develops a crush on Cam, but this is hindered by her constant feeling of an unusual connection with Daniel. Meanwhile, Penn strikes up conversation with a shy boy named Todd. Then, Molly appears at the party and almost immediately starts harassing Luce. She threatens Luce with a stick of fire, making references to Trevor, making the ground catch fire and almost setting Luce herself in fire. Arriane jumps in and tells Molly to back off. Molly runs off and Arriane sits Luce down someplace safer. After assuring Arriane she's fine, Luce decides to leave the party and sees the shadows as she walked through the forest back to school.

The next day, Luce tells the school counselor she is no longer seeing the shadows. After talking with the counselor, Luce decides to go for a swim in the indoor pool and runs into Daniel who is also swimming. She sees a pair of necklaces he is wearing that sparks a vague memory and she asks him one more time if she knows him from somewhere. He tells her no and swims off leaving her alone.

Later on, Luce has flashbacks about the fire that killed Trevor and says that she doesn't remember how she ended up outside while Trevor was trapped inside. While in one of her classes, she is able to translate a Latin phrase, "It was humility that turned men into angels and it was pride that turned angels into devils". The teacher is impressed and asks the class how that relates to the rebel angel. Arriane becomes upset at the teacher for suggesting the rebel angel had a choice and the teacher kicks her out of the classroom. After class has ended and Luce is walking with Penn and Todd, she realizes she forgot her sweater and returns to the classroom to retrieve it. When she enters the room she hears Daniel and the teacher, Sophia, talking about the falling angel statue and the teacher warns Daniel that it may have been caused by Cam. They realize Luce heard them talking and Daniel runs after her.

Luce remarks that Daniel was distracted during class and asks him what he was working on during the class. He tells her it was a graphic novel about a boy and girl who are in love with each other but can never be together because of a curse put on them by the devil who was jealous of their love. They meet every 17 years and fall in love but they can never be happy because the girl always ends up dying as soon as they are happy. Luce asks what happens to the boy and Daniel tells her he waits, never aging or changing. Each time he meets the girl she has a new name and a new family but he knows it is her because it is her soul reincarnated. He tells her they always fall in love but it always ends the same way with the girl dying as soon as they kiss.

Cam is watching them talk from the roof of the school and later knocks on her room's door to wish her a happy birthday. He gives her the items that were confiscated from her when she first arrived at the school. He tells her that he has answers and will tell her the truth if she meets him at the arch that night. Cam takes her out to a club and tries to kiss her. Daniel appears and shoves Cam away from Luce, yelling that he had told Cam to stay away from her. Luce flees the scene and confides to Penn what happened. Penn and Todd help Luce sneak into the school and use the facial recognition software Todd has created to find pictures on the internet that match Daniel's face. They find a photo from 1854 of Daniel and Luce. As Penn wanders off to retrieve the photo from the printer, Luce is distracted by a locust and follows it into another area of the library. The shadows appear and another mysterious fire occurs that ends up engulfing the library and killing Todd. Daniel rescues Luce from the fire.

Daniel visits an unconscious Luce who is recovering and tells her that he loves her. Penn is heartbroken by Todd's death and Luce feels responsible because it was just like Trevor's death. Penn will not let Luce take the blame for his death. After Todd's funeral, Luce wanders up to the roof top balcony and finds Daniel there. She tells him that she remembers everything - the fire and being carried in his arms to safety. Daniel tells her she was delirious but Luce pulls out the 1854 photo she had printed from the internet and tells him she remembers that day. Daniel tries to deny it but she refuses to accept that. Luce steps onto the ledge of the balcony and jumps off. Daniel catches her and flies her to safety with his wings of light. Luce is amazed by his wings and they almost kiss but instead Daniel tells her that he'll always be there for her. Meanwhile, Penn wakes up and sees two shadows talking behind a door and is troubled by what they are saying. She runs to find Luce.

Luce now remembers giving Daniel the necklace he wears around his neck and as they continue to reminisce the shadows appear. Luce becomes afraid because everything bad that has happened in her life has come from the shadows but Daniel assures her that isn't the case. He tells her they are called the Announcers and that all they do is observe. They are windows into the past that are attracted to the most important moments in Luce's life. In the shadows, Luce now sees all the lives she has shared with Daniel for thousands of years. He tells Luce that she is reincarnated but that he is immortal as one of the fallen angels. They nearly kiss but Cam arrives just in time to stop them. Cam tells Luce that if she kisses him she will die and offers her a future with him. Daniel tries to convince her that this time it will be different. Luce states that she knows what she wants and kisses Daniel.

Cam is visibly upset by this and reminds them that Luce isn't baptized. This means that Lucifer will come for her and insists Luce will be safer with him. Daniel whisks Luce away before Cam can do anything. Cam flies into the air and continues to try to convince Luce and Daniel that he is the better option. Daniel leaves Luce in the care of the teacher, Sophia, and flies off to fight Cam so that he can't follow them and lead Lucifer to Luce. Cam insists that he doesn't answer to Lucifer anymore but Daniel continues to fight him. The fight causes an unusual storm and the non-angel students of Sword and Cross gather around the windows to watch. After Daniel gains the upper hand, Cam insists he isn't the one trying to kill Luce and Daniel demands to know who.

As Luce watches them battle it out, Penn finally reaches Luce and is about to reveal something to her but Sophia slits her throat before she can say anything. As Penn falls to the floor dead, Daniel and Cam hear Luce scream out in horror. Daniel races to rescue Luce as Sophia chases after her trying to end her life so that Daniel can take his rightful place in heaven. Daniel protects Luce and confronts Sophia about her claiming to be a servant of God even though she has murdered innocent lives. Sophia explains that the murder is justified because, with Luce gone, Daniel would have been forced to choose a side and order would have been restored. The shadows show up behind Sophia as she is talking and consume her.

Luce is visibly shaken by everything that happened and asks why Sophia was trying to kill her. Daniel explains that she is not baptized, which means that if she dies, it will be forever and she will not reincarnate. Sophia believes that with Luce no longer in the picture, Daniel would leave Earth and choose Heaven. Daniel tells her that Lucifer will come for her for this same reason. He tells her that he must take her somewhere safe. Luce tells Daniel that she finally understands why she never felt she fit into the life that was supposed to be hers and Daniel tells her that he will always choose her. They then fly away into the sky as dawn approaches.

Cast

Production

Development

Lotus Entertainment[7] is the producer in charge of taking the adaptation to the cinema, initially when the novel was bought in December 2009, the producing company Walt Disney Pictures was the first to buy the whole saga since Fallen ones consists of 5 books and an annex, In total 6, but by the middle of 2013, Disney declined and withdrew from the project, leaving all production to Lotus Entertainment.[8] The pre-production began in May 2014 after the recordings were finished in Budapest, Hungary.[9]

Pre-production

Pre-production started from September 2013, while recordings began in February 2014 in Budapest, Hungary, recordings were spread over 7 months of recordings, 5 months of tape recordings and 3 months of voice recordings, later the film had been finished in April 2016, the film was two years in pre-production.[2] Origo Film Group studios in Budapest were chosen for the film's production, work on the "angels" flight scenes and the construction of some planes of exterior areas, in the studios, could be analyzed and viewed detail the elaboration and the final work before the introduction of the special effects.[10]

Casting

On August 16, 2013, two main characters were announced, Addison Timlin[11] would play Lucinda "Luce" Price and Jeremy Irvine[12] would play Daniel Grigori, both were released by writer Lauren Kate on their website. Later on September 25, 2013 it was officially announced that the Australian Harrison Gilbertson[13][14] would play Cameron "Cam" Briel, the third main character. On January 19, 2014 it was officially confirmed in Australia "IF" magazine on its website that Australia's Sianoa Smit-McPhee would play "Molly", the antagonistic character.[15]

On February 17, it was announced by a Twitter message in the official account of the actress Hermione Corfield her stay in Budapest, days later would confirm her participation in the adaptation of Fallen side in the role of "Gabbe."[16] On March 1, 2014 actress Juliet Aubrey confirmed her involvement in the adaptation as Luce's mother, Doreen Price.[17] On February 18, 2014 was officially announced that actress Daisy Head would play Arriane Alter, this was released by the father of the actress via Twitter.[18] On April 9, 2014, the remaining members of the rest of the cast were officially announced on the website of Fallen Writer, Lauren Kate. The actor Malachi Kirby will play Roland Sparks, the English actress Lola Kirke will be the one of life to Penn and Chris Ashby like Todd Hammond, the other actors that already had been confirmed like Hermione Corfield (Gabbe), Daisy Head (Arriane Alter) and Sianoa Smit-McPhee (Molly), have also been confirmed by the writer officially on their website, later the rest of the remaining characters were officially confirmed.[19]

Curiously, the actor Jeremy Irvine[20] who incarnated fallen angel (Daniel), was involved in the casting process for other young adult franchises that became adapted into films, such as, The Hunger Games for the role of Peeta Mellark and in Divergent for the role of Tobias 'Four' Eaton, both were rejected by him. Later in the auditions of Fallen, Irvine was fascinated by the script and chose to stay with the project.[21]

Filming

After the change of producers, the producers and the director Scott Hicks[22] began the search of the set, the chosen place was the European country of Hungary; Approximately 2 km from the capital of Hungary was the place chosen to begin the recordings, but were different places where Dark was recorded, the first was Tura Castle, would be the main enclosure that would conform to Sword & Cross, together with the castle Wenckheim-kastély (Szabadkígyós) also located in Hungary, the library would be another enclosure apart where they were filmed, the three buildings formed the reformatory.[23] Subsequently, filming date had been established at the beginning of September, but was delayed until February 9, 2014 in Budapest.[24] There were five months of recordings plus two extra weeks of voice recording between the end of July and August.[25][26]

The first building forms the classrooms, the reception and the bedrooms,[27] the second building houses the swimming pool and the third building houses the library; it is noteworthy that the cemetery that is narrated in the book was omitted.[28]

Marketing

Lauren Kate and Addison Timlin at the Comic Con Experience in Brazil promoting the film in December 2016.

By the end of 2016, the trailer for Fallen leaked in the Philippines, the first country to be chosen for the premiere of the film, with low resolution and poor quality of image and sound. Lotus Entertainment had to re-edit the trailer, modify small scenes and include credits at the end, once it had leaked.

The leak forced the company to set a release date. It started a speculation about the delay the film suffered for years, however it was known that Fallen did not have a distribution company. Later Relativity Media, directed by Ryan Kavanaugh was interested in distributing it, after several days of negotiation. In the end the release date was greenlit, with the premiere taking place at the Philippines.[29][30] The film is scheduled to be released on September 1, 2017, by Vertical Entertainment.[31]

In December 2016, the film was promoted at the Brazilian Comic-Con Experiencie, where Fallen had its own panel. A press conference took place with Lauren Kate (writer of Fallen) and Addison Timlin (Lucinda Price). During the event the Brazilian trailer was shown for the fans.[32]

Sequels

In December 2014, it was announced Torment, the second installment in the Fallen book series, was in development.[3] It is unknown whether the last two novels, Passion and Rapture, and the spin-off novel, Unforgiven, will be adapted as well. In 2017, producer Kevan Van Thompson asked the fans if they want an adaptation of "Torment", showing that the sequel still could be made.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Fallen (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. January 9, 2017. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  2. 1 2 "'FALLEN' Movie Wraps Production in Hunfary". Your Entertainment Corner. May 15, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  3. 1 2 McNary, Dave (December 18, 2014). "'Fallen' Sequel in Development at Aspire (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Web, Omelete (December 12, 2016). "Fallen taking in the world". Omelete.com.br. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  5. ↑ Fleming Jr, Mike (August 16, 2013). "Lotus, Mayhem Set Addison Timlin, Jeremy Irvine For Gothic YA Novel Pic 'Fallen'". Deadline.
  6. ↑ "Ryan Kavanaugh Twitter message". September 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ Dave, McMary (December 17, 2013). "Lotus Entertainment-Fallen Movie". Varety. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  8. ↑ N/A, N/A (December 17, 2013). "Official website of Fallen in Lotus Entertainment". Word and Film. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  9. ↑ Patrick, McDonald (October 14, 2013). "Scott Hincks film in Budapest.". Adelaide Now.com. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Studios film Fallen in Budapest, Hungary". ORIGO Film Group. February 11, 2014. Retrieved January 11, 2017.
  11. ↑ Amy, Wilkinson (August 16, 2013). "Addison Timlin as Lucinda Prince and Jeremy Irvine as Daniel Grigori.". Hollywood Crush. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  12. ↑ Kate, Lauren (August 16, 2013). "Officially Cast". Officially Cast, page Lauren Kate. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  13. ↑ Jeff, Sneider (October 1, 2013). "'Need for Speed's’ Harrison Gilbertson to Star in YA Adaptation 'Fallen' (Exclusive)". The Wrap. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  14. ↑ Patrick, McDonald (October 10, 2013). "Officially Cast by Lauren Kate". Officially Cast. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  15. ↑ Don, Groves (January 20, 2013). "Adelaide ties to US indie thriller Fallen.". IF.Australia.com. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  16. ↑ Hermione, Corfield (February 15, 2014). "Here I gooooo... Budapest". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  17. ↑ Juliet, Aubrey (January 1, 2014). "Juliet Aubrey as Doreen Price". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  18. ↑ Anthony, Head (March 22, 2014). "Daisy Head as Arriane Alter". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  19. ↑ Lauren, Kate (March 22, 2014). "Official the fallen cast". Page by Lauren Kate. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  20. ↑ "Jeremy Irvine will be no The Hunger Games". The hop.org. May 11, 2010. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  21. ↑ Lauren, Kate (August 1, 2013). "Official the fallen cast". Hollywood Crush. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  22. ↑ Thompson, Kevan (December 6, 2013). "Scouting tomorrow again on "Fallen" and interviewing crew for the Production team". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  23. ↑ Kate, Lauren (October 30, 2013). "The Dallas Morning News, Lauren Kate Interview". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  24. ↑ "February 9 film in Hungary.". Random House.com.es. December 20, 2013. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  25. ↑ Kevan, Thomson (December 5, 2013). "90% of locations locked now for "Fallen". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  26. ↑ Kevan, Thomson (December 6, 2013). "Fallen team in Budapest". Twitter. Retrieved January 10, 2017.
  27. ↑ Polis, Natasha (February 16, 2014). "The 'Fallen' YA Adaptation Is Heading into Production in Budapest". Page to Premiere. Archived from the original on August 25, 2014. Retrieved May 11, 2014.
  28. ↑ Lauren, Kate (May 7, 2014). "Exclusive: Lauren Kate's Top 5 Surprises from the 'Fallen' Set". Word and Film. Retrieved May 14, 2014.
  29. ↑ Alfa, Kleramie (November 4, 2016). "The Fallen' Movie Cast Invades Philippines This November". Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  30. ↑ Chris, N/A (November 10, 2016). ""FALLEN", THE MOVIE ABOUT ANGELS PREMIERES IN MANILA". Retrieved January 9, 2017.
  31. ↑ Crust, Kevin (April 21, 2017). "Every single movie coming out this summer". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 25, 2017.
  32. ↑ Daniel, Albuquerque (November 16, 2016). "LAUREN KATE, AUTORA DA SAGA "FALLEN", É CONFIRMADA NA COMIC CON EXPERIENCE". Retrieved January 7, 2017.
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