Robert Rollins Pictures (link) is announcing the production of Robert Rollins’ anthology feature film Dream Country.
Currently in active pre-production with a locked script, location scouting and actor auditions being held in L.A., shooting the Dream Country interstitials brings to a close a long term goal. Rollins said "I've been working on this for the past several years. Finally going into production last week made me realize just how long I've been waiting to make this a reality. We've opened the production offices and we're knee deep in the craziness of getting everything ready to roll cameras." Rollins declined to elaborate on a specific date for principal photography but said it was going to be "Fallish 2012." The company is awaiting approval of permits before it commits to a hard date.
UPDATE: Permits have been approved. The date is set in October 2012 according to Rollins.
Dream Country was born out of Robert’s love for Rod Serling’s classic television show The Twilight Zone. Dream Country follows The Twilight Zone pattern by creating a framing device of using foot bridges that transport the viewer or journeyman from awake to asleep, from conscious to unconsciousness, from reality to fantasy, from past to present.
Cross a bridge to enter a dream....
The mysterious and enigmatic Elias introduces the featurettes while standing on a bridge much the same way Rod Serling had done in The Twilight Zone.
The “dream country” itself is not presented as a tangible plane, but rather a metaphor, for strange circumstances that befall the protagonists, thus allowing unrelated stories depicting science fiction, paranormal, time travel, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each featurette features a surprising plot twist or ends with some sort of message.
Welcome to a land that Elias calls Dream Country...
A place where it is always turning late in the year. A land where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist… where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger and midnights stay. Remain as long as you like… or dare.
The trip home happens in the blink of an eye, though the journey may take considerably longer… in the Dream Country.
