Short Film Drakken Takes Viewers To A Post Apocalyptic Dark Fantasy

We’re searching for the next great sci-fi filmmaker with the Prototype contest, where eight filmmakers are vying for a chance to win a feature film deal with New Regency. You can check out the short films by all eight finalists right now, but if you want to go behind the scenes to learn more about the creation of these movies, we’re publishing interviews with the Prototype filmmakers. Today, you can take a peek into the minds behind Drakken in our interview, where writer/director Matthew Wilson talks about where the idea behind the film came from: For more, check out our interview or go watch Drakken for yourself. Usually, post-apocalyptic movies are set in modern day or the near-future and they center on a zombie outbreak or nuclear holocaust. We wanted to put a twist on the genre so we started talking about how the apocalypse might happen in a fantasy setting. We decided on necromantic magic. A horrible ritual goes awry and creates a pestilence that spreads out across the land, killing many of the plants and animals and making everything infertile. There’s a giant smoking sinkhole that opens in the earth and starts leaking out death-energy.