Blood Mountain


The real name of this movie is "Blood Mountain", not "Above Suspicion".

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dongroves/2016/06/14/game-of-thrones-emilia-clarke-set-to-shock-in-new-movie-blood-mountain/#5eb21c116176

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I am thinking they are keeping it under wraps for production so people do not pirate it. It's one of those "things" movies do before distribution.

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You're right, I guess.

"The movie features "Game of Thrones" star Emilia Clarke as Susan Smith, an impoverished informant for FBI agent Mark Putnam, played by Jack Huston of "Boardwalk Empire." Filming began in May in Harlan, Kentucky, under the working title, "Blood Mountain," but Sharkey said he expects the movie to be called "Above Suspicion" in the end."

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Emilia even calls in Blood Mountain in her Instagram posts.

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She has to. If she let out the real name, before distribution, she could be heavily sued by the production company. Even the actors are not above the production. They are the slaves to it.

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This sounds plausible in theory, but the reality is the final title is not yet decided. She definitely would not be "heavily sued" for using the book title that we formed the LLC under. The film was being produced as Above Suspicion until it was changed shortly before principle began. Source: I worked in production on this film.

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Oh. Well if you actually worked in production....

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Joe Sharkley (book writer) is not happy with the title "Blood Mountain"
"And that strange new title? Well, in the initial media accounts surrounding the announcement of the movie going into production, the movie title was always given as “Above Suspicion,” the same as my book. But at some point during the two-month shoot, the daily call sheets began referring to the production as “Blood Mountain,” though I almost never heard anyone on the set actually call it that. In a feature story last month, meanwhile, Forbes Magazine, which I didn’t realize still existed even as a website, referred to the production as “Blood Mountain,” and (given the entertainment media’s propensity for repeating the last thing they read), it is now often referred to that way in the media.

However: Blood Mountain is famously the name of a popular hiking mountain in Georgia. It is also the title of another movie to be released in 2017 about trail bikers’ “deadly encounter” on a mountaintop. Furthermore, to me, “Blood Mountain” sounds like the title of a B-feature at a drive-in movie in the 1970s.

When I asked women on the set, and back home as well, about the title “Blood Mountain,” they made a face. Let’s just say that female moviegoers are not likely to flock to a movie with that title, and moviegoers in general won’t be aware, given “Blood Mountain,” that Phillip Noyce and his cast have created a tragic, emotionally complex motion picture about hope, betrayal, desperation, and the death of dreams, in a locale that already occupies a dark niche in the American psyche.
Cast and crew hate “Blood Mountain,” as do producers I talked to. The trucks on location all said “Above Suspicion,” and the production is still referred to as such as “Above Suspicion” in all of the industry listings on the Internet movie data base IMDB.com
So, since I am frequently asked about this these days, I would say that it is highly doubtful that “Blood Mountain” will prevail as a title. Among the alternatives I’ve heard are “Mountain Betrayal” and “Lonesome Holler” and even “Blue Kentucky Girl” — among others.
By the way, I’m now completing research and finishing the writing for an updated new edition of my book, which will be titled, as it was before, and as I expect the movie will be too: “Above Suspicion."

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I hope they keep Above Suspicion as title, to me it´s a good name for a thriller, Blood Mountain sounds more like a horror movie.

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