EXCLUSIVE: Bill Kaulitz has swapped the live performance stage for the massive display screen by touchdown his first movie position.
The Tokio Hotel frontman, whose band is amongst Germany’s most profitable music acts, has landed a job in Brute 1986, an indie pic impressed by Nineteen Eighties slash motion pictures.
Within the movie, Leather-based Kobra, a Sundown Strip-style glam metallic band movies a music video in an deserted Western city in the course of nowhere. Ignoring ‘no trespassing’ indicators, the rebellious group don’t know they’re being watched by the Birdy household, who will meet them with a “stage of brutality that’s as vicious as it’s artistic,” in keeping with producers.
Starring alongside Kaulitz are Gigi Gustin (Stiletto), Sarah French (Blind), Pancho Moller (3 From Hell), Lew Temple (The Satan’s Rejects), Heather Grace Hancock (Depraved Metropolis) and Dazelle Yvette (Backyard of Eden).
Jo Knetter (Twilight of the Lifeless) is the author, with Waltz (That’s a Wrap) the director. Dirk Schürmann and Tobias Schürmann are the manager producers and Marcus Friedlander (Sleepwalker) is director of images.
Kaulitz is already the topic of Netflix roadtrip documentary Kaulitz & Kaulitz, and co-presenter of the German version of That’s My Jam. He options in each with Tokio Lodge bandmate and brother Tom Kaulitz. Tokio Lodge fashioned in 2001, with Invoice Kaulitz’s distinctive model and charisma turning into wildly influential in Germany over the 2 following a long time.
“The entire crew and I had a lot enjoyable on this film,” mentioned Waltz. “I’m an enormous fan of the ’80s slasher style, particularly Friday the thirteenth, The Burning, Halloween and Sleepaway Camp. We additionally knew we couldn’t make a pure ’80s horror, however we transferred our love of these motion pictures to the display screen. It was such a pleasure having Invoice on set and giving him his very first position in a film. He went full in and got here greater than ready for his position! I cant wait for everybody to see him on this film.”
We’ve reached out to Kaulitz for extra.
