<Tr> <Td> "It's thrilling, imaginative, unexpected and dominated by two extraordinary characters on a collision course" </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td>--Paul Breuls, Corsan's Chief Executive Officer, when asked about the film . </Td> </Tr> <P> The project was originally set in the 1970s and titled Shrapnel . It was being considered by John Travolta and Nicolas Cage as a project to follow up on their film Face / Off and by director John McTiernan as a directing vehicle . Subsequently renamed and modified to take place in modern - day Appalachia, and co-financed and co-produced by Corsan, Nu Image and Millennium Films, filming began on January 16, 2012, in the Appalachian Mountains of north Georgia . Major filming was scheduled for Tallulah Gorge State Park and Black Rock Mountain State Park . The locations in Rabun County were chosen by director Mark Steven Johnson to create the effect and mood he had previously seen in the film Deliverance . Other minor filming locations included Sofia, Bulgaria, Sweetwater Creek State Park, and the Pine Mountain Gold Museum in Stockmar Park, Villa Rica . International sales for Killing Season, offered by the American Film Market, commenced on November 2, 2011, in Santa Monica . American cellist / singer / songwriter Ben Sollee contributed solo cello performances as well as an original song, "Letting Go", for the end credits . </P> <P> Killing Season was released in the United States on July 12, 2013, to both the home screen and in cinemas . Boyd van Hoeij of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that the film would be better off as a "small - screen item". The film has received almost exclusively negative reviews from critics, and as of November 2016 holds a 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, out of 19 reviews counted . Joe Neumaier of the New York Daily News awarded the film one out of five stars, panning Travolta's character's Serbian accent . David DeWitt of The New York Times stated that "(i) t's not worthless, but it's not good . As a genre film, it's too ambitious; as an art film, it's too obvious ." </P>

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