MVD Entertainment Group has landed the domestic
distribution rights to the directing team of Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp’s
action fantasy, Max Reload and the Nether Blasters,
however the initial plans for a theatrical launch have been set aside (Covid-19
and all) in favor of a Blu-ray and DVD launch on Aug. 11.
Slick, well-produced and featuring cult icon Kevin
Smith (aka: “Silent Bob”), Max Reload and the Nether Blasters is a
gamer’s fantasy/thriller starring newcomer Tom Plumley as Max Jenkins, the nebbish
video game store clerk at Fallout Games — a place where retro video games get a
second life.
One day he discovers the thought-to-be-lost game
cartridge of “Nether Game,” a legendary role-playing game that only runs on the
old Colecovision gaming platform. It’s
like finding the Holy Grail of games, what could possibly go wrong?
Plenty!! Not
only is this a game that only existed, he thinks, in the world of rumors, but
it seems that this particular cartridge is infected with the “Curse of the
Ages.” When the unwitting Max plugs it
in and starts to play he frees “The Nether,” a beastly, and very deadly, force
from beyond.
The all-knowing wizard of game-playing, Eugene
Wylder (Greg Grunberg — Star Trek Beyond, Star Wars: Episode
VII - The Force Awakens … as Matt Parkman on
the Heroes
television series), guides Max and his friends as they must battle and defeat
“The Nether” … or the world is doomed.
No pressure!!
This retro-game thriller, which gamers especially
will enjoy for the visuals and “gaming experience,” comes loaded with no less
than five production featurettes — “Art and Animation,” “NetherCragon,”
“Egypt,” “Reggie Gets Nethered – Anatomy of a Scene” and “Speed Run.”
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