I had the chance to chat with Baumeister and Purcell recently about Blood Red Sky, which is now streaming on Netflix. Taking place almost entirely on the upper and lower decks of a plane, the film is claustrophobic, cramped (making the fight sequences particularly in-your-face), and thrilling.
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Chicagoans may know him as the co-lead on the series “Prison Break,” which shot around the city for a couple of years and he’s played the superhero Heat Wave for several seasons on the CW series “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow.” Image courtesy of Netflixīaumeister is primarily only known to German audiences, but her performance in this film should up her visibility quite a bit as she plays a version of a vampire that is both feral and maternal, curbing her blood-thirsty instincts to protect her son from both the hijackers and herself.
The English-born, Australian-raised Purcell has been on the action scene for a couple of decades, going back to Mission: Impossible II, Equilibrium, and perhaps most relevant to Blood Red Sky, he was in the notoriously difficult production Blade: Trinity, playing a version of Dracula. But it’s Purcell who essentially takes the lead on the hijacking mission. When the hijackers threaten all three of the elements that are keeping her hunger in check as they take over the plane in swift, military fashion and have it turn around back to Germany, Nadja is forced to take action and unleash the dark side of herself that she’s fought long and hard to hide.Īmong the terrorists are such notable action stars as Dominic Purcell, Roland Møller, and relative unknown to non-German audiences, Alexander Scheer, who steals scenes with great abandon as Eightball. The only things keeping her from feasting on those around her are a mysterious drug she injects herself with periodically, the fact that this is a night flight, and the presence of her young son (Carl Anton Koch), who looks out for her on the journey. In the new Netflix film from director/co-writer Peter Thorwarth, Blood Red Sky, two things become eminently clear early on: there are hijackers onboard a redeye flight from Germany to America and there’s a vampire, Nadja (Peri Baumeister), amongst the passengers.
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