Spier Films Boards Kelsey Egan’s Frontieres Project ‘Outer Edges’

Spier Films will serve as a co-production partner on Kelsey Egan’s upcoming sci-fi thriller “Outer Edges.” Led by Mike Auret, the Cape Town and London-based production, financing and sales company is behind the likes of Berlinale Golden Bear winner “U-Carmen eKhayelitsha” and Mads Mikkelsen-starrer “The Salvation.”

Egan’s film, in advanced development and about to be unveiled at Frontieres’ Forum, will focus on a group of space travelers on their way to a new Earth. They are confronted with alternate versions of theirself as they find themselves stranded in strange places.

“What would it be like, having to face yourself? How would it feel if your past choices turned out to be poor? It’s not very often that you find something as thought-provoking and human,”Egan spokeVarietyat Fantasia, praising the script by Rob Klecha and Magnus Aspli.

“I am a sci-fi nerd and I have learnt the most about society and our world by reading all these extravagant tales. ‘Outer Edges’ is ambitious, but I like it. I got into the habit of doing projects that some people describe as ‘impossible,’ only to go: ‘Just watch’.”

It is important to work with an intimate. “contained”Egan has a story to tell and is open to exploring the notion that space can sometimes feel claustrophobic.

“The idea of it is liberating, but we assume there are all these planets we can just go to and be well-received. I don’t think it’s that welcoming,”She noted.

“This film will have a very claustrophobic feeling as well, as you follow these characters and their realizations. Most of them are running away from something. But they will have to confront [their issues] in a way they never expected and one that defines logic.”

However, what happens to them is strictly “science-based,” assured Egan, it was the characters’ internal struggles that touched her the most.

“What if you were to meet yourself in a parallel dimension and see how all these tiny micro choices you have made in the past changed you and your world?,”She wondered.

“We keep hearing that you should love yourself, be your own biggest ally. But are you really? If only one of you can survive, who is worthy? And how do you make that call? These are dream roles for actors, who will be given a chance to play different versions of the same person.”

Jade Alexander from Little Jade Productions produced the film.

“Great sci-fi is always about being human,”She said. She admitted that she was looking forward to working alongside a female director.

“That was so important to me. I want to make projects that I feel will speak to people and have a positive impact on society. Or at least one individual.”

We are looking forward to “subvert” the audience’s expectations, also when it comes to the film’s visual side, the team will shoot in South Africa, where Egan has been living since 2007.

“It’s a very interesting landscape to show to the world. It hasn’t been overused in cinema. We are going to show a planet that’s very different from what we normally see on the screen,”Alexander and Egan called South Africa, “an incredible place to live and shoot.”

“We have such wonderful casts and crews, and they are finally getting the right opportunities, apart from that very colonial treatment of a foreign project coming in and using up the resources. It’s nice to do things differently.”

Egan’s debut feature “Glasshouse” – fresh off its July release in North America – premiered at Fantasia in 2021. Her second album is currently in post-production. “The Fix”With “Stranger Thing’s”Grace van Dien intends to put more emphasis on practical effects than CGI in her next film.

“I am an old-school ‘Star Wars’ fan – I will do as much in front of the camera as I possibly can,”She said that it was often a better story to admit that you have to think creatively about solving problems.

“Sometimes you just have to cowboy it.”