Can't pinpoint what exactly it is about the pic above that I dig so much, but there you have it. Not sure who the artist is, but hopefully it's not AI...
Soooo, on the T3 front, part of me was hoping one of the crucial people I need from the cast would tell me they're not interested/can't do the flick, and I could just go "Okay, that's it, we're not doing it."
But I've checked with all but two, and they're all up for trying it. If those last two tell me sure, then I guess the ball's back in my court.
I'm working on the shooting script and breakdown now, to see how many days I think we can shoot this in. (the main part of the script, which is 66 pages--if we get that done, we can work on the segments later) Let's say, 8 shooting days over a 9-day period?
That's about 8 pages per day, which is certainly doable for some of the stuff. However, some days will be heavier and some days lighter--the end of the flick involves fires, plus lighting that will fake fires so I can composite additional fire in later.
Also involves lighting someone on fire a little bit. If the actor's too scared to do it, I'm always prepared to try it myself.(the actor in question has a mask on, so the only difference you'd notice is that I'm thicker than the actor)
Then I gotta figure out what it'll all cost. There's a chance that it'll all be more money than I'm willing to spend. The distribution has gone back to shitty--tubi's not paying that much any more, so the question of how I'm going to get the money back is up in the air.
If I figure we can do it--and I'll try to crowdfund some of that money, but they're always hit-or-miss--then I need to see if I can find an actress to replace the main girl. I located a couple that SEEM like they'd work, but the question remains--let me see what they look like reading the part, and then are they willing/able to do it for that length of time for the amount of money I can pay them?
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Saw In The Lost Lands a couple of nights ago. It's not as bad as you've heard or the RT score shows, but it's not good. Entertaining enough if you're just looking for something to put on in the background.
Last night we saw Ash. It's a semi-low-budget(I'd guess in the million dollar range) sci fi/horrorish movie. The trailer tells me it's from somebody named "Flying Lotus", who I've never heard. Now, it's not like the director's out there creating the trailer, so I'm not gonna say the guy is super egotistical based on that.
Then I see the movie. The guy--who apparently is a musician turned director--also did the score for the movie, PLUS has a small cameo. If you added up his screen time, I bet it's not 60 seconds. The movie ends, it rolls the cast list, and at the end is AND FLYING LOTUS.
Like, seriously? You're giving yourself an AND acting credit for what's barely a cameo? That seems pretty egotistical.
As for the movie...I'm a bit torn. On the one hand, it's not terrible. You can tell it's fairly low budget by some of the shots, while other shots are pretty impressive. The biggest problem is the script--it's sort of a mashup of Alien/The Thing/Pandorum...where a woman wakes up with no memory of who she is or what happened.
But...pretty fast I was guessing in my head, and turns out that I was right, and yet during all this the movie makes you feel like you don't know what's going on. It takes a bit too long getting to where it's going.
So I'd say it's okay, but not great. If it was much lower than a million dollar budget, I'd even swing it some more leeway.
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I got those auction videos done. A full 85 minutes of edited stuff. That's gonna cost them, cuz I was working some long hours to get them up on time.
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