So, I mean, like, Bloody hell how long has it been since I did this blog thing? Well it's half a year since the over-inflated suck fest of TDKR, so that long. Damn, a lot can happen in half a year. And has!
If you have a look back over previous posts you'll see at one point I involved in writing a film called "MidKnight Rising" (which, ironically, has Nolan-esq under-tones, and sucked just as much. Or more!) Well now that little brain-child of mine has grown up, mutated, and is getting ready to slap you repeatedly in the face. With a trout, for some reason. Not only have I written a script for a TV Pilot/Preview/Trailer type thing (It’s a new genre’!), but, in a shock turn of events that makes even my own eyes brows raise skyward, we're making the bloody thing!
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| Look - it's a script!! |
You already know about my attempt to get it made as a film, and how that turned out. Well ever since I’ve been pitching it to people as a TV show, and all the time I would get the same response: “We like it, but…”. 6 months ago I pitched it to the commissioning team at Sky TV. Result: they “loved” it…..”but”. Another smelly, hairy “but” staring me in the face. They couldn’t “pigeon-hole” it, which isn’t a sexual act (as far as I know!). Basically they couldn’t classify it – was it a comedy? Was it a drama? My answer was “neither and both”, which probably didn’t help. Anyway, once again the answer was “no”.
So this time, instead of just sitting around thinking “why do I bother?” I thought “stuff it!” (Or words to that effect!). “I’ll make it myself”. I mean when you ignore the “but” (which is now a mantra of mine – “Ignore The But!”) and concentrate on the whole “we love it” bit, which I’ve heard loads over the last few years, then there’s clearly something good here. Great even! So I asked around to see if anyone else would be interested in getting involved. I quickly found a guy at work called Richard Reay who also happens to be a director with the same outlook on the project as myself. (He co-directed a zombie short film called "Z-Word" with another talented dude called Garry Douglass. Its bloody awesome!) I found musicians, trained TV technicians, actors, designers… Talent. You’ll be amazed how much there is if you ask around.
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| Left to right: Actor John Cunningham, Director Richard Reay, Actor Scott Latty |
So now there’s this rag-tag bunch of people at my place of work who are making this Pilot/Preview/Trailer type thing that I wrote. Everyone working on something, away from their jobs, to make the best damn Pilot/Preview/Trailer type thing imaginable, with no money, no budget…Proper gorilla team.
We start filming some footage in the next few weeks. We've cast two of our main actors, and literally just now we've finished going through hundreds of actors CV's, show reels and photo's to come u with a short list of potentials we want to audition. Meetings are being held, music is being made, designs drawn, rehearsals organised. We’re aiming to get a 10/15 minute Pilot/Preview/Trailer type thing finished by the end of the year, hopefully with a big “Premiere” event right here in Newcastle which will be raising money for an as yet undecided charity. You can follow our progress on Twitter and on Facebook. Or you can just come back here for more. I'm sure I'll be back to rant soon enough.
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| Me. Talking guff. After drinking too much coffee! That bloke on the end, his surname's Latty. Which sounds like Latte'. I did not drink him. |
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