Interview with Ate de Jong, director of Deadly Virtues (coming this February)
Interview with Ate de Jong (Drop Dead Fred) talking about his upcoming feature, Deadly Virtues being released by Artsploitation Films this coming February. Genesis of the film- In February of 2013 Raindance founder Elliot Grove discovered the script writt en by an outcast from a MA in screenwriting, Mark Rogers, who suffers from Cerebral Palsy and Asperger Syndrome – an unlikely combination of afflictions for a screenwriter. Ate de Jong, the cult director of classics such as Drop Dead Fred (Working Title Films) and Fogbound (starring Ben Stiller) immediately agreed to take this project on. It is de Jong s 20th feature. Director Ate de Jong: "The script was so scary and haunting, I couldn't stop reading. And after I finished I changed the locks on my door. Then I looked in the mirror and wondered, how much in me is Tom, how much the intruder? Ate de Jong is known as an actor s director and spent the two weeks in the run up to production work shopping wi...