Andron – The Black Labyrinth Movie Review

Andron – The Black Labyrinth is an upcoming sci-fi thriller film, directed and written by Francesco Cinquemani. There is still nothing much spilled out for this film, which release date is still unknown. However, as the storyline writes, this sci-fi film will be about a group of people that are being plunged into a dark and claustrophobic maze, in which they need to fight to survive while the outside world watches. The story sets in the year 2154 and the young men and women of the group cannot remember who they are once they wake up and find themselves in the maze.

In order to survive, the young men of women of the group have to learn the ways to survive, such as how to decipher the codes, beat the tests in the Black Labyrinth of Andron, and understand the various signals. Without being able to remember their identity, the group struggle out of necessity and create a bond in order to survive. With the tagline “Only one can survive”, we can already expect that Andron – The Black Labyrinth will be much like the thriller movies in which the characters need to play a survival game while their fate is being controlled by the invisible hand(s)—a plot that is much expected from post-apocalyptic, dystopian stories or movies.

Produced by AMBI Pictures and Premiere Picture, Andron – The Black Labyrinth will star Alec Baldwin and Danny Glover as both actors have agreed to sign on to star as reported in September 2014. Baldwin and Glover will not be the only ones, though. This film also stars Michelle Ryan, Mauro Conte, Leo Howard, Gaia Scodellaro, Antonia Campbell Hughes, Gale Harold, Clara Pasieka, Margareth Made, Job Kortajarena, Marysia S. Peres, Alex Matrin, and Elettra Dallimore Mallaby. Aside from those actors, the lead singer from Skunk Anansie, a U.K. band, Skin also joins the lineup.

AMBI Pictures itself is a relatively new film production and finance company run and owned by Andrea Iervolino and Monika Bacardi. Andron – The Black Labyrinth aside, which will be released in the future as the official release date is still veiled, the production house has also produced and released The Humbling at the 2014 Toronto Film Festival, a film directed by Barry Levinson and stared Al Pacino. Both Bacardi and Iervolino are financing and producing Andron, which will be available for the U.S. distributors. AMBI Distribution, the company’s international sales subsidiary, is the one to handle the worldwide sales.

Andron – The Black Labyrinth also marks Francesco Conquemani’s directional debut, as he himself is also the one responsible in writing the screenplay. Iervolino himself said that the story this thriller sci-fi film would be enough to make the sci-fi fans worldwide excited, and with actors like Baldwin and Glover added, the parameter rose even higher. The production house itself was very excited to add Andron to its production slate and keen to get to work on this one, which Iervolino believed to have a big breakout potential. Other films AMBI adds to its waiting list is a crime-thriller titled Hope Lost starring Mischa Barton, Michael Madsen, and Danny Trejo, an action-thriller titled 2047 – Sights of Death, and an animated feature movies titled Arctic Justice: Thuner Squade and East End.

Francesco Cinquemani himself is known for being an author and screenwriter first, before he finally made his directional debut with Andron – The Black Labyrinth. The man has a lengthy career as director and journalist of magazines. Even so, as a director in general, Andron is not actually his very first work as he has worked on a feature-length documentary titled Offstage, in which he also wrote.

Cinquemani has a pretty long list as a director aside from Andron – The Black Labyrinth, and most of them are short film, documentary, or TV series, as in Ti Uccidero(2014), Offstage: Lontano Dal Palco (2014), Amici Veri (2013), L’Appuntamento (2013), The Place (2012), Virus (2010), Lo Stinco di Natale (2006), Ciufoli Tra Le Stelle (2006), and The Snack (2001).

Meanwhile, as a writer, Andron – The Black Labyrinth is not his first one. Cinquemani has also worked in writing for Ti Uccidero (2014), Offstage: Lontano Dal Paco (2014) where he co-wrote, Buio (2013), The Place (2012), Virus (2010), Lo Stinco di Natale (2006), and Ciufoli Tra Le Stelle (2006). It is seen that his talent is undoubted.