Anna Kendrick seemed to be everywhere following Up In the Air, signing up for all manner of movies, most of which don’t seem to have happened – partly because with Twilight: Breaking Dawn taking eons to shoot, she’s been rather limited in what else she can do. However now THR reports that she and John Francis Daley (aka Bones’ Dr. Sweets) are in talks for Rapture-Palooza, which is described rather intriguingly as ‘Zombieland meets The Big Lebowski’.
They’d join Craig Robertson, who’s been previously announced to play the antichrist in the flick, which is set a year after the Rapture has removed much of humanity from Earth and the planet has been rendered as a hellish proving ground. Against that backdrop, Ben and Lindsey try to reestablishing their sandwich cart business. Beyond the occasional blood rainstorm and talking locusts that surface, the sandwich sellers have a new problem: the Anti-Christ decides he wants to take Lindsey as his bride.
The Rapture isn’t really that big of a thing in the UK, but in the States religious fundamentalists are slightly obsessed with it, seeing virtually everything as a sign that the end times are coming, as mentioned in the New Testament (although to be honest, most of it seems to be a massive over-reading of what the likes of Thessalonians and Revelation actually says). Although there are different ideas of what will happen, many believe that at some point all the really good people that God likes will be taken almost instantaesouly to heaven (the actual Rapture), leaving everyone else behind while the antichrist is given rule over the Earth.
Acclaimed commercial director Paul Middleditch is directing the movie, which is one of the first films to be made under Lionsgate scheme to create several micro-budgeted movies each year for under $2 million.