As the year wraps up (and the decade!) we wanted to share The Making of Danger! Danger!
We worked with an amazing Cast and Crew this last summer on our second feature film, and we couldn’t be more excited to share this!
Production Design is so important to any film. On our first film, The West and the Ruthless, we wanted the film to have an authentic look - meaning real guns, real boots, real stagecoaches. For Danger! Danger! we wanted the look to feel a bit more 1980s action-adventure movie. Something that could have come from Mad Max or Aliens. We worked with Steel Gohst, who was already creating amazing weaponry like this to bring the guns to life.
For the skeletons and cadavers in Danger! Danger! we wanted a Temple of Doom feeling. Something so over the top, that they’re part of the adventure.
We worked with Dapper Cadaver, who had previously worked on Stranger Things and films like Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man’s Chest and Jurassic World, on these effects.
Speaking of spacesuits, we also worked with the brilliant folks over at Global Effects, who had just wrapped Ad Astra and First Man. We were able to use these authentic NASA replicas and bring our own “One Eyed Willie” moment in the film to life and have it look amazing.
Locations and Sets are extremely important to us when we’re making a film. With both of our feature films, The West and the Ruthless and Danger! Danger! the locations are essentially one of the characters. In The West and the Ruthless, we wanted a world that felt dirty, and gritty, and lived in. We found the perfect location at Old Tucson Studios that also made the film feel huge.
Sets at Laurel Canyon Stages
For Danger! Danger! we wanted to harken back to the films of the 1980s that made us want to become filmmakers. The locations needed to have that adventurous and sci-fi spirit of the 80s, but also feel dangerous and epic. The stages at Laurel Canyon Studios made us feel like we were on the set of Aliens and Vasquez Rocks (the home of so many Star Trek films, the Planet of the Apes, and so many others!) were the perfect settings.
Vasquez Rocks
Our fourth and final clip from Danger! Danger!
This is one of those moments as a filmmaker you live for. Something you wrote that just leaps off the script and into the real world - better than you had imagined!
In this clip, Jonathan Danger meets Jungle Jim.
Danger! Danger! is the second feature film by Nick + Lexie Trivundza and stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, Alexander Harris, and Matt Boone.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
We have two clips left that we’ll be releasing for Danger! Danger! This clip is not only one of our favorite moments from the film, but also features some wonderful fight choreography by Ryan Larsen!
Danger! Danger! is the second feature film by Nick + Lexie Trivundza and stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, Alexander Harris, and Matt Boone.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
We’re so excited to release the Second Clip from Danger! Danger! This clip sees our adventurers in action up against our incredible “Stormtroopers!” (that’s what we kept calling them on set anyway!)
Danger! Danger! is the second feature film by Nick + Lexie Trivundza and stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, Alexander Harris, and Matt Boone.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
Danger! Danger! has been SO MUCH FUN. Period. It’s the first time we’ve ever had the chance to work on a project and say things like “should we go more Indiana Jones with that???” “Should this feel more like Star Wars???”
That said, we’re over the moon to release the first of 4 clips from the film!
This is the moment where our adventurers (and villains) first enter the secret temple. And who doesn’t love secret temples? As a filmmaker that grew up loving 80s adventure movies, this was a dream come true.
Danger! Danger! is the second feature film by Nick + Lexie Trivundza and stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, Alexander Harris, and Matt Boone.
For more on Danger! Danger! make sure to check out the official site!
Here’s a second batch of posters! Danger! Danger! is a love letter to the films of the 1980s that inspired us to become filmmakers. We wanted a second series of posters to look like they were actually hanging on our walls as kids back in the 80s.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
We’re releasing the first batch of Posters for Danger! Danger! today! We’re so excited to show these off! As huge fans of character posters, we love releasing these for our films as well.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
Danger! Danger! is officially on IMDB! It’s always a great moment when the film you’ve poured your blood, sweat (so much sweat. it was 105 after all!), and tears into arrives on IMDB!
And with that announcement comes the first poster for Danger! Danger!
We’re releasing the FIRST OFFICIAL TRAILER for DANGER! DANGER! today! It’s so exciting to finally get a chance to share this with everyone!
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With the first batch of posters and the first trailer just around the corner, we’re so excited to release these last sneak peek images from Danger! Danger!
Danger! Danger! is the second feature film by Nick + Lexie Trivundza and stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, Alexander Harris, and Matt Boone.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
Logline
It’s 1985 and adventurer, Jonathan Danger, has just crash landed onto an island off the coast of Africa, looking for a temple that may be his ticket to go back in time. Too bad the Soviets got there first.
Official Synopsis
It’s 1985 and adventurer, Jonathan Danger, has just crash landed onto an Island 20 miles off the coast of Africa. He’s looking for a temple that may or may not be his ticket to go back in time. Too bad the Soviets got there first. Too bad they want to go back in time to change the events of the Space Race and the Cold War and World War II. Too bad he has a punctured a lung. Too bad he’s been kidnapped by Jungle Jim and his sister Jade Calloway. Too bad he never gives up.
For more information and updates, make sure to visit the Official Danger! Danger! Site:
Here’s a first look at Danger! Danger! A sneak peek at all of the amazing work we’ve been up to! Danger! Danger! is a love letter to the films that made us want to be directors in the first place when we were growing up watching films like Empire Strikes Back, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, the Goonies, and so many other wonderful films from the 1980s!
Danger! Danger! allowed us to work with an amazing cast and stars Benedict Mazurek, Paul Haapaniemi, Angela Smeraldi, Alexandra Keller, Alexander Harris, and Matt Boone.
For more on Danger! Danger! Make sure to check out the official site!
So exited to announce that Haunting of the White Sparrow is our next release on Crypt TV, as part of our new deal as the exclusive homes to our short films! This follows the release of both The Umbrella Factory and Jack the Ripper!
After a wonderful Film Festival run that included the likes of Seattle, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Sacramento, London and Greece to name just a few, Haunting of the White Sparrow was also a Special Halloween Vimeo Select and has been featured in magazines and websites around the world.
Crypt TV, with their headquarters in LA, has millions of subscribers across their various networks and social sites. The studio was founded by Jack Davis and Eli Roth.
We just wrapped production on Danger! Danger! our next feature film. It was the most amazing and hardest thing we’ve ever done. And when I say hard, I mean it, but it was also the adventure of a lifetime.
Growing up, the most exciting thing we could think of was to grow to be filmmakers working on films like Indiana Jones and exploring lost temples. Or driving time traveling DeLoreans in Back to the Future. Or finding forgotten Pirate Ships like the Goonies.
The thing that I never expected though, was to have the opportunity to work with such an AMAZING Cast and Crew. One that joined in on those experiences and came along on those adventures with us. Everyone who worked on Danger! Danger! gave 1000 percent. Not because they had to, but because, like us, love making movies.
It’s an experience that will stay with us forever.
AND we cannot wait to begin sharing Danger! Danger! with everyone else!
For updates, make sure to visit the Official Danger! Danger! Site.
We are so EXCITED to announce our Next Feature Film, DANGER! DANGER!
Production kicks off today and continues until the end of July. Danger! Danger! is a love letter to the Spielberg Movies of the 80s that we grew up with and made us want to be filmmakers. Taking inspiration from The Goonies, Back to the Future, and Indiana Jones, we’ve never been more excited!
Danger! Danger! Is the second feature film from Naissance directors Nick + Lexie and features an amazing cast that we can’t wait to announce!
Nick + Lexie’s debut feature film, The West and the Ruthless, just wrapped its international release in over 50 countries, the most recent being the UK release on June 7, 2019. Before that the film was released in North America (The US and Canada), Australia, and New Zealand by 4 Digital and Sony Pictures as well as a European Release by Manymore Films.
For upcoming news and announcements on Danger! Danger! make sure to visit the Official Site.
The West and the Ruthless Global Release kicked off May 15, 2019! Along with the North American, Australian, New Zealand, and previous European Releases, the film is now out around the world in the following countries:
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominica, Estonia, Fiji, Gambia, Greece, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Israel, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Luxembourg, Malta, Micronesia, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Poland, Sri Lanka, St. Kitts and Nevis, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkmenistan, Vietnam, British Virgin Islands and Zimbabwe.
Including the Friday, June 7 Release in the UK!
With the Global Release of our feature film The West and the Ruthless kicking off last week, we wanted to show off ALL of the artwork, posters, and covers used from around the world!
Below are the official covers for North America, Australia, and New Zealand, the brand new Global Release, and the European Cover.
The European Cover was selected from the original International Posters designed for Berlin and Cannes.
And here are the original Character Posters we released when the film wrapped production.
For even more Artwork from the West and the Ruthless, check it out here:
Very excited to announce that Naissance will be joining the Crypt TV family this week with the release of Jack the Ripper and The Umbrella Factory on their channel! After incredible film festival runs, followed by an exclusive broadcast deal on Robert Rodriguez’s El Rey Network, we’re pleased to announce the new homes for our shorts will be with Crypt TV!
Crypt TV was founded by Jack Davis and Eli Roth and most recently joined by Jason Blum of Blumhouse, as they continue to grow their ever expanding monster universe and horror empire!