Every actress worth her box office salt has a super heroine alter-ego these days. Charlize Theron has her "Aeon Flux" assassin. Angelina Jolie does Lara Croft in the "Tomb Raider" series. Kate Beckinsale layers on the latex as Selene from “Underworld.” Even Jennifer Garner has found her inner warrior in "Elektra."
Now Kristanna Loken has Rayne.
Loken — last seen in “Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines” as the totally nude T-X who gave Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger a run for his ball bearings — hit the red carpet at Graumann's Chinese Theatre last night wearing a white chiffon gown for the premiere of “BloodRayne.”
Loken's new fantasy film is based on a video game, always a good sign, about the daughter of the world's most powerful vampire, who seeks revenge on dad for having the bad manners to kill her human mommy. The catch is that Rayne is also a vamp, but she turns her perky nose up at human blood and only feeds on other vampires.
“The film was shot in Romania,” explained the statuesque blonde. “It's a post-Communist country and it's like a teenager, still figuring what it wants to be when it grows up. But the castles are absolutely amazing. And I think shooting there really helped the look and feel of the film.”
Not enough. Some in the audience wondered how on earth the filmmakers snagged Oscar-winning British actor Ben Kingsley for the role of, yes, you guessed correctly, Daddy Vampire. Did he just have a free day? And whose idea was the eyeliner, lipstick and that bad plastic hairpiece?
The film was produced and directed by Uwe Boll and distributed by Romar Entertainment. Boll, taking the stage before the film began, ranted about all the greedy thieves in Hollywood, always a great way to endear yourself to the L.A. film industry. He dragged his stars — including Loken, Michael Madsen, Billy Zane and Udo Kier — onstage but didn't let them speak because, “I hate it when actors talk."
He then made a fevered pitch for Romar as the only truly independent film studio that makes and distributes their own films very cheaply, um, inexpensively.
That much was obvious from the evening's cost-cutting measures such as:
Photo: Kristanna Loken looks like angel at the premiere of hew new film, BloodRayne, based on a video game about vampires.
(Steve Granitz / WireImage)
