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Director Marcus Alqueres has sent us another great short film he directed called "Lasiurus." This is the same guy who directed the superhero short "The Flying Man" and the sci-fi football short "NF7." 

"Lasiurus" is a horror film that follows "a young family dealing with the morbid secrets of an uncharted town. The short focuses on a single character, Julian, who, unsuspecting of his surroundings, stumbles upon a deserted market. The eerie atmosphere builds up to the reveal of the dark presence around him."

The film was made on a shoestring budget, but Alqueres is a talented individual who made a solid movie that I enjoyed. If you're a horror movie fan, you've gotta check it out!

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Sony Pictures has picked up the rights to The Flying Man, a short film written and directed by animator and visual effects artist Marcus Alqueres (300, Source Code, Rise of the Planet of the Apes) with the intent to adapting it into a full-length feature.

In this beautiful, unsettling short, a powerful Übermensch acts as judge, jury, and executioner as he goes around killing the criminals in his city. Unlike most superheroes in comics, the audience isn’t meant to casually rationalize with this hero nor are audiences expected to agree with his methods of dropping people from dizzying heights to their terrifying deaths. And what’s most interesting about this short is its refusal to turn its superhero into a personality while also making a parallel between the anti-hero and a drone. Infact, here the protagonist doesn’t seem like an anti-hero, so much as a terrorist.

Sony Pictures has picked up the rights to animator and visual effects artist Marcus Alqueres' 2013 short film "The Flying Man" with plans to adapt it into a full-length feature.

The short tells of a vigilante superhero enacting justice seen through the eyes of a man about to commit a crime.

The deal also includes a spec script by Chris Collins ("The Wire," "Sons of Anarchy"). Scott Glassgold will produce.

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Why Watch? A small town sheriff, a bizarre set of murders, a programming genius locked into a conspiracy. This short from Anthony Scott Burns (the Dp from the eerie The Flying Man) feels like one of Edward G. Robinson’s sweaty nightmares set on an abandoned farm-to-market road. Calmly paced and filled with unease from the start, it also features the kind of grizzled frustration we’ve come to expect from actor Stephen McHattie as well as smart, economic writing from Burns. It’s a beautiful movie, but Manifold also injects enough science fact into its science fiction to make it stay nervously in your mind beyond the runtime. What Will It Cost? About 8 minutes. A New Short Film Every Weekday...

Hi everyone and welcome to the final Fun With Short Films for 2013. Today’s entry is titled The Flying Man. The premise focuses on a mysterious flying man who has been spotted flying around the city and taking out criminals.

The film opens with mock police footage of the figure flying around the city being chased by police helicopters. It’s interesting as this movie feels like it has borrowed elements from various superhero action/adventure films as of late. Seeing the figure fly around the city skyline reminded me very much of Hancock, but as the focus shifts to two small time criminals everything screams Batman Begins. Between the tone and the mysterious nature of the vigilante it’s a mystery you want to understand, but of course with it being a short film, the mystery is part of the fun.

Flying Man was created by Marcus Alqueres, who...

"He is reckless and violent." Perfectly timed to kick off the week of Comic-Con is a short film that's trying to reinvent, or maybe rethink, the superhero genre yet again. It's called The Flying Man, directed, produced & edited by Marcus Alqueres (@marcusalqueres), and tells of a darker superhuman origin story from the angle of the general population. The film has an excellent opening with news reports about "Flying Man", however the conversations in the middle get a bit boring, though it all makes sense by the end and that final shot is fantastic. This stellar short poses a couple of thought-provoking darker questions about superheroes. From Vimeo: A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero? The Flying Man short film was directed, produced, financed and edited by Brazilian-born filmmaker Marcus Alqueres, now based out of Canada who works on VFX for a living.

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Speaking of comic con, I found this really Hot short film about a flying superhero vigilante called The Flying Man. In less than a week since it’s debut, the hot short film is approaching 200k views on Vimeo. We embedded the short for your below. My favorite part comes 51 seconds into the short.

The Flying Man is a short film envisioned, financed, produced, directed, edited and co-written by Marcus Alqueres. Marcus Alqueres is a director based in Toronto, Canada. Originally from Brazil, Marcus began his career in 2002 as a visual effects artist and animator on commercial advertising projects. In 2005, Marcus made the move to feature film work and has since worked internationally with top Visual effects production facilities on A-list feature projects such as 300, Source Code, Rise of The Planet of The Apes,...

Here's an impressive new short film for you to watch called The Flying Man, and it comes with the following tag line,  

A new superhero is coming, only this time it's on his terms. Will he still be considered a hero?

The movie was directed, produced, financed, edited, and written by Marcus Alqueres. It was really well made, and I enjoyed it.  It has a solid beginning and a solid end. I hope you like it!

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The line between superhero and vigilante extremist has often been blurred in film (and in real life, as the whole Phoenix Jones saga demonstrates), but a new short film defines that dark space between heroism and anarchy. The Flying Man by Marcus Alqueres, which Dangerous Minds introduced us to, presents a lone figure soaring through the air. The man's motives are uncertain. Narrated by a flurry of news commentary, the mysterious flying man tries to shield himself from the spotlight, but doesn't think twice about killing people in public. Do the victims deserve it? They seem to be people with criminal records, but we don't get the full story — and it feels as though anybody could be next on his list. Is the man even human? His "suit" could be...

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