gravelly voiced radio show host
in his 2008 horror movie
Pontypool, perhaps the most
interesting of the wave of zombie
movies that proliferated
during the noughties. McHattie
reteams with both McDonald
and Pontypool writer Tony Burgess
for Dreamland, which offers
him not one, but two lead roles.
The movie will be available on
VOD platforms June 5.
The first role sees McHattie play
a heroin addicted trumpeter
referred to only as “Maestro.”
The musician is one of those
classic noir archetypes, an artist
trapped in a world of criminality
because it’s the only place that
allows for his temperamental
idiosyncrasies. Living in a near
future Luxembourg, Maestro is
kept under lock and key in the
castle cum hotel where he performs
for a mix of gangsters and
aristocrats, occasionally sneaking
out for a fix. He’s made an
enemy of local mobster and
Watch the trailer for Dreamland
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