Mutant World (2014)

Interesting facts

Mutant World is a 2014 Canadian-American neo-sci-fi western horror television film directed by David Winning and written by Matt Campagna, produced by Nomadic Pictures on behalf of SyFy. The film follows the adventures of a group of doomsday preppers who emerge from an elaborate bunker a decade after a meteor wipes out civilization, finding the world overrun by mutants. Shot in Alberta, the film stars Holly Deveaux as the leader of the preppers exploring their new world, Ashanti as a mysterious stranger who shadows them, and Kim Coates as the original leader who saved the handful of people ten years earlier.

Production

Mutant World is a production of Calgary-based Nomadic Pictures, founded in 1995 by executive producers Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev,

who "gleefully" called Mutant World a B movie, which he defined as "big ideas brought to the screen with very little money". Director David Winning, who regularly divides his time between Los Angeles and Calgary, having carved out "a long history as a gun-for-hire director with a penchant for guiding actors" through "B-movie terrain", offered a slightly different take on making them: "It's so tongue-in-cheek.

Mutant World was the third television movie for SyFy written by Toronto-based screenwriter Matt Campagna, all of which have followed a certain formula, as Eric Volmers points out: "take a supernatural, action-packed premise, add an established character actor ... and shoot it all cheaply and efficiently". The film's working title at the start of principal photography was Fallout Asylum.

The "star power" of Mutant World comes from Sons of Anarchy actor Kim Coates, whose role in the film is "small but meaty", requiring only three days for his scenes. He was asked to star in the film by its Calgary producers, Chad Oakes and Mike Frislev, who had a past relationship with the actor after casting him in 2008's coming-of-age drama 45 R.P.M., but he insisted on changes to the script to give his character "a more poignant arc." Coates to…

The project gave a few local actors a chance to play against type: Amber Marshall, who plays Heartland's earnest Amy Fleming, plays Nicole, "a scrappy, machine gun-toting medic", while David LeReaney, a veteran theatre actor and dialect coach, plays "an action-ready military man", and was an actor David Winning had been wanting to work with "forever": "I wanted to cast him in things when I started out in movies.

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