"The Frozen Ground" will be hiring speaking roles and hundreds of extras in Alaska.
AB Media Publishing, LLC
The feature film "The Frozen Ground" will begin shooting in Anchorage, Alaska on October 17, 2011. The casting director is hiring as many as 45 Alaska actors for speaking roles, as well as several hundred background extras. They are especially seeking state troopers and members of the police department who are interested in acting and extras roles. The film's main starring roles are being cast out of Los Angeles.
Written by New Zealander Scott Walker, who will also make his directing debut, the film is based on the true story of Alaska's most notorious serial predator, Robert "butcher baker" Hansen, who abducted some two dozen women and flew them into the Alaskan wilderness where he released and then hunted them. John Cusack plays the role of Robert Hanson, Nicolas Cage plays the State Trooper who hunts Hanson, and Vanessa Hudgens plays a victim of Hanson's who survives and helps bring him to justice.
Brandt Andersen will executive produce with a $27 million budget for Emmett/Furla Films while George Furla and Randall Emmett will produce for the company. Jane Fleming and Mark Ordesky will produce for Amber Entertainment. Curtis "50 cent" Jackson has come onboard to play a substantial role as a 1980s-era pimp, and will also executive produce the film with Envision.
Principal Actor Casting
See the post titled Headshot and Resume Information regarding how to submit for acting roles.
Please submit photos and resumes by mail or email only.
No phone calls or personal drop-offs.
Los Angeles:
Anne McCarthy
"The Frozen Ground" Casting
c/o Engine Media Group
PO Box 1859
Venice, CA 90291
(casting lead and supporting roles only)
Alaska:
Deborah Schildt
"The Frozen Ground" Casting
11050 Cange Street
Anchorage, AK 99516
Frozen Ground is asking that those interested in auditioning first e-mail an acting resume and headshot, plus contact info. IF you match the description of who is being cast, you will be given lines to memorize and a specific appointment to audition (about a 15 to 30 minute process). They are auditioning those with acting resumes first.
The casting e mail is: frozengroundcasting@gmail.com
Write "Actress" or "Actor" in the subject line.
Extras Casting
Alaska:
Deborah Schildt
"The Frozen Ground" Extras Casting
11050 Cange Street
Anchorage, AK 99516
If anyone wants to be an extra - you do not need to audition. In that case, you still need to send an e-mail with a current snapshot and contact information. Again, if you match the look of the extras they need AND have a very flexible schedule and availability of at least 12 open hours in a day (not weekends), then you MAY be called in for extras work.
The casting e mail is: frozengroundcasting@gmail.com
Write "Extra" in the subject line.
Production Companies:
Do NOT send photos and resumes to the production companies, as they will most likely end up being thrown away. They do not cast the films, rather they hire casting directors who sort through the thousands of submissions.
"The Frozen Ground"
Production Office
1001 Northway Drive
2nd Floor
Anchorage, AK 99508
Voltage Pictures
662 N. Crescent Heights Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Amber Entertainment
6030 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 300
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Emmett/Furla Films
8200 Wilshire Blvd.
Suite 300
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Producers:
Randall Emmett
George Furla
Jane Fleming
Mark Ordesky
Curtis Jackson
Writer/Director:
Scott Walker
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
John Cusack
Vanessa Hudgens
Curtis Jackson
Story:
Based on true events surrounding Alaska's most notorious serial predator, Robert Hansen (John Cusack), a respected family man, who over the course of twelve years abducted, tortured and raped over twenty four women, flying them to the Alaskan wilderness and hunting them down before killing them. Story will follow an Alaska State Trooper (Nicolas Cage) who finds one of Hansen's victims (Vanessa Hudgens) alive on the street who becomes the key in an unlikely partnership that brings Hansen to justice. Hansen was arrested in 1983 and charged with four murders and, as part of a plea bargain, agreed to show police where the graves of the murdered women were. He was sentenced to 461 years in prison and is currently imprisoned at Spring Creek Correctional Center in Alaska.
