After watching the trailer for Stuart Hazeldine’s Exam, I’m certainly putting the movie on my “extremely interested in” list. Empire, which first shared the trailer, describes the movie as a “high concept first: coming on like Cube meets The Apprentice, Exam brings together eight disparate people – candidates for an unspecified high-powered job – who find themselves undertaking an exam with a difference. A big difference. A mind-bending, noggin-noodling and potentially fatal difference.”
What do you think? Hazeldine doesn’t have a lot of experience. He wrote the series pilot for a TV show called Riverworld, which wasn’t picked up. Other than that, he’s a newcomer. Sometimes these high concept films have great concepts, but simply fail to deliver. I’m hoping the Hazeldine’s freshness will Exam from falling into stereotypical Hollywood plot lines. We’ll see.
The release date in the US isn’t official yet, but look for it in the UK January 8, 2010.
Synopsis: Eight talented candidates have reached the final stage of selection to join the ranks of a mysterious and powerful corporation. Entering a windowless room, an Invigilator gives them eighty minutes to answer one simple question. He outlines three rules they must obey or be disqualified: don’t talk to him or the armed guard by the door, don’t spoil their papers and don’t leave the room. He starts the clock and leaves. The candidates turn over their question papers, only to find they’re completely blank…
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