MOVIE NEWS FOR AUGUST 23: STAR WARS PRODUCER TURN TO HORROR WITH PANZER 88

Source: losangelestimes

Gary Kurtz, the producer of the first two “Star Wars” films and the man who walked away from the franchise in 1980, is not the excitable type. He speaks in even tones and pragmatic terms, but there was a clear tinge of eager energy in his voice when he sat down recently to discuss “Panzer 88,” his first foray into effects-heavy feature films since the 1980s.

“It’s a good, good project, you haven’t seen anything like it for a while,” Kurtz said of the spooky wartime adventure that is planned as a $20 million independent film and will begin shooting in the winter. “It’s a visceral, reality-based story with horror overtones, and the idea is to have be like the best of the graphic novels these days.”

The plot follows the five-man German crew of the Ilsa — a King Tiger, the biggest tank of its day…

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