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Ronny Yu plans to shoot film down under
In an interview with Aint it Cool, “Fearless” director Ronny Yu says he’s going to be shooting some of his next film on location in Melbourne.
Yu says the Victorian capital is the perfect location for “Blood: The Last Vampire” because “there’s an abandoned army camp there with all the supplies there, like jeeps and planes and all that”.
The filmmaker also confirmed plans to shoot some of the film – about a young girl who goes undercover in an air base to defeat daemons – in Tokyo.
Yu plans to start the film in October or November, and says that he hopes to “reinvent this genre… You know, every time you talk about vampire or whatever, you have this blue/gray tone and stuff like that. I’m going to take a multimedia approach to it, with color and all that.
And also, I changed the setting of the story. In the animation, it was set in the 1960s. Now I move it to 1948 in Tokyo, just after the bombing, just after the war. I think it will look visually stunning because of the ruin of the city and all the death all around the city. Then the story happens right in the middle. There’s a US Army camp because Japan at the time is occupied by the US. So, you have this apple pie, good old wholesome American army camp and surrounding it is death and ruin.”
