Key takeaways: This article explains why Adam Green’s survival thriller Ascent may remain unreleased and clarifies the film’s premise. Readers can compare the original shark-thriller description with Green’s account of a hot air balloon thriller.
- Release status: Adam Green says the completed film Ascent will never be released.
- Film premise: Green says Ascent was a hot air balloon survival thriller, not a shark movie.
- Production account: Green alleges that a producer took the production money and disappeared, leaving people unpaid.
- Cast and setting: The film was shot in Malta and featured Inanna Sarkis, Gregg Sulkin, Timothy Granaderos, Paris Berelc and Bill Moseley.
Adam Green, the filmmaker behind Hatchet and Frozen, says his completed survival thriller Ascent will never be released. Green recently said the film was shot in Malta, but alleged that the production was left in financial chaos after a producer took the money and disappeared. This report summarizes Green’s account and clarifies the film’s premise.
Our friends at Bloody Disgusting brought the story to our attention, pointing out Green’s appearance on the YouTube channel FanZcene Vids. During the conversation, Green clarified confusion about the project: despite its original announcement as a shark thriller, Ascent was not a shark movie. Green described it as a hot air balloon thriller.
“It was never a shark movie. But we don’t need to worry about it, because it’s never coming out. You’ll never see it. … The producers… I don’t want to name names… his name was Ryan Hamilton, he stole all the money and just disappeared. So, we actually filmed the whole thing in Malta. That was actually the same producer who f*cked everything up… he’s the one who announced it as the shark movie. He should’ve read it. It’s actually a hot air balloon movie.”
Green described the shoot as an incredible experience, then explained why he believes audiences are unlikely to see the completed film. His statements about the production and producer are allegations attributed to Green.
“It was the craziest shoot ever, it was amazing. And then we left, got back to LA, and nobody ever got paid. They did that to four productions in one year. So they’ve been on the run. And when you’re talking about people in another country, trying to get any sort of legal justice is painful. So. Yeah. That one will never come out.”
These are Green’s allegations about the production and its producer. Bloody Disgusting notes that Ryan Hamilton was part of Simple House Films alongside Addam Bramich and Volodymyr Artemenko. The company also had another horror project, Zipline, on its slate.
What Was Adam Green’s Ascent About?
Ascent was a survival thriller about friends stranded in a hot air balloon, according to Green’s clarification; the project was initially described as a shark thriller. The two synopses differ on the danger facing the characters, but the later version focuses on their height above the ground.
Ascent’s premise was a group of friends stranded in a hot air balloon 3,000 feet above the ground.
The first announcement referred to the film as a shark thriller, with this synopsis: A group of friends arrive in Europe for a glamorous but daring destination wedding. The fun and games turn into a nightmare when they find themselves precariously suspended above shark infested waters and in a battle for survival. A later synopsis removed the reference to sharks and instead focused on the characters being stuck in a hot air balloon: a group of friends attending a destination wedding in Europe find themselves stranded on a hot air balloon 3,000 feet above the ground.
The cast assembled for the survival thriller included Inanna Sarkis (Boo 2! A Madea Halloween), Gregg Sulkin (Runaways), Timothy Granaderos (13 Reasons Why), Paris Berelc (Hubie Halloween) and genre icon Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects).
Green was particularly excited to return to the survival thriller genre after directing Frozen (2010), which trapped its characters on a ski lift with hungry wolves waiting below. Both films place characters in dangerous situations where survival is at stake.
“I’m incredibly excited to be returning to the survival thriller genre,” Green said when the project was announced. “Ascent’s story about a recreational activity gone terribly wrong is going to play with people’s real life fears and be a total thrill ride for the audience.”
An Adam Green Survival Thriller We Won’t Get to See
According to Green, Ascent is unlikely to be released, despite having been filmed with an assembled cast. The director’s account connects that outcome to the alleged financial problems surrounding the production.
Ascent was filmed, but Green says the completed survival thriller will remain unseen.
That outcome is frustrating for fans waiting to see Green return to the kind of survival filmmaking he delivered with Frozen. Based on Green’s account, Ascent is unlikely to join Frozen in his released filmography. The movie was filmed, the cast was assembled and the story placed its characters in a precarious situation, but Green says the finished film will not be released.
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Questions readers ask about Ascent
Adam Green’s statements indicate that the film will not be released, and his account identifies it as a hot air balloon thriller.
Adam Green says Ascent will not be released.
- Will Ascent be released? Green says the completed film will never be released.
- Was Ascent a shark movie? Green says it was not a shark movie; he describes it as a hot air balloon thriller.
- Where was Ascent filmed? Green says the film was shot in Malta.
- How high above the ground were the characters? The later synopsis placed the stranded friends 3,000 feet above the ground.
