New project for Mr. Stahl it seems!

The former Prospect Middle School on Mt. Washington will stand in for a hospital for the criminally insane in a locally produced film.

“In NorthWood,” a psychological thriller, begins shooting July 21, says the film’s co-producer, Mike Wittlin.

Shooting on the $2.2 million project is expected to last four weeks.

The title refers to a mental hospital for the criminally insane. Nick Stahl stars as an inmate coping with life inside the hospital, where violent offenders are kept.

A while ago we posted about that you could post your questions to Nick at Current.com. And the videos are now done and you can view video 1 and video 2 a their website. Enjoy!

Screencaps of Nick’s performance in ‘Soundman’ have been added to the gallery. Nick’s role in the film is quite small but quite fun, especially the last scene he’s in. Once my video program is fixed, I hope to be able to make a couple of clips. Until then, enjoy the caps.

Variety reports that Kevin Bacon has signed on to star in “My One and Only,” joining Renee Zellweger, Chris Noth, Nick Stahl and Logan Lerman in the film, which director Richard Loncraine has begun shooting in Baltimore.

Charlie Peters wrote the script.

Pic is inspired by George Hamilton’s childhood adventures as he and his brother were taken on a road trip by their eccentric and glamorous mom, who drove along the East Coast looking for a rich man to take care of the family. Bacon will play the philandering band leader she tries to leave behind.

Director Carlos Brooks sets out to tell a modern day detective story with his first feature-length film.

The Latin phrase Quid Pro Quo refers to equal exchange, usually in a legal context. In director Carlos Brooks’ new movie of the same name, however, the repercussions of this tit for tat agreement concern not property or tangible goods, but psychological reciprocation. Quid Pro Quo the film follows paraplegic hero Isaac Knot (Nick Stahl), a reporter for public radio investigating a community of “wannabes,” able-bodied persons who long to be disabled. In his sleuthing Isaac encounters Fiona (Vera Farmiga), a seductress who herself fantasizes of life in a wheelchair.

The film marries allusions to Hitchcock with an exploration of a mysterious subculture while investigating Isaac and Fiona’s emotional plight. Their unconventional romance, and the film as a whole, is unusual and twisted, but tender, too. Outlandish as its premise may seem, it is ultimately a grounded story about the quest to be an “authentic” individual. Brooks spoke to ARTISTdirect about his first feature-length project, discovering wannabe culture, and writing a modern day detective story.
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An obscure and terrifying mental disorder leads a reporter to the strangest and then the most terrifying story of his life. A neat film noir in a very modern setting amongst people who are not all there.

Newcomer writer/director Carlos Brooks has produced one of the best first-time efforts in recent history with this much understated mystery thriller about people who want to be less than whole. Strong performances by lead Nick Stahl and supporting actress Vera Farmiga make this a very neat package of low budget indie thriller.

Nick Stahl comes to this film off his Screen Actors’ Guild nominated part in the sizzling “In the Bedroom” (2001) with Sissy Spacek and Tom Wilkinson. In 2003 he was John Connor in “Terminator 3” opposite Arnie, his governorship, hisself. In this film he is inquisitive but sincere Isaac Knot, a Public Radio reporter in New York City who has been confined to a wheelchair since a childhood auto accident.
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A new ’sneak peak’ trailer has been released for Quid Pro Quo, and it contains a longer trailer and also behind the scenes footage and interviews. We haven’t added it here yet but you can view it at our family site Vera Farmiga Online for now.

Nick Stahl is back in the limelight! Not that he ever left the industry – he just seemed rather elusive for a while, becoming quite selective regarding the roles he played. After taking the lead in The Terminator way back in 2003, Nick only made one film a year for the next four years. But 2008 will be a banner year for Stahl – he has four movies on offer and one of them is Quid Pro Quo.

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What is that makes a sexy, able-bodied blonde bombshell not only a devotee of paraplegic men but also determined to live out her own life in a wheelchair? This is just one of the many puzzling questions explored in the thriller Quid Pro Quo, which stars Nick Stahl as Isaac, a semi-paralyzed journalist, and Vera Farmiga as Fiona, a beautiful wheelchair wannabe with a thing for leg braces and corsets.

An anonymous tip from someone who calls herself Ancient Chinese Girl leads Isaac into a subculture of people who seek various forms of amputation and/or paralysis at any cost. In the course of his investigation, Isaac meets Fiona and finds himself lured into her strange world, perhaps aware that a deeply buried truth about his past is inexplicably connected to her dark desires.

Nick Stahl (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Sin City, The Thin Red Line) chats exclusively with Premiere about the subculture of disability fetishists, the psychological and physical challenges of playing someone in a wheelchair, and acting opposite the red-hot Vera Farmiga.

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Been searching the net for material related to Quid Pro Quo, a movie I’m very much looking forward to see. I’ve found production stills, behind the scenes photos and the first trailer out for it which I also made captures of. The movie will be in the theatres in USA in June 13, 2008. View the trailer here and enjoy the new treats!