If you have more than one. Which one would you make and why?
I would make Love, Money, Bombs because it is that type of alternate reality scifi no one makes anymore. Plus my other have a chance of being made by someone else. This is the runt of the litter.
So, WHY would you choose the one you choose?
I'd make my superhero comedy Ultimate Man because done right it would do a billion dollars of box-office. Then I could finance all of my others scripts myself.
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I'm really concentrating on 'Our Time' - a dual character driven short based on the theme of letting go the past in order to move into the future. It's a short that I'm going to work very hard to make worthy of a live action Oscar. I'll produce it myself and bring in new start-up cast & crew to help them get a leg up in the industry. That's my goal and New Year's resolution. We'll see how it goes.
Tully Archer I love actors. Watching them work material is amazing. So I have to agree.
Richard Buzzell you’re going the Luc Besson model. Very cool.
Dan Guardino all the faith. You have the track record.
Doug Nelson sounds horrible, but I have heard a producer of a short raise funds within the production. The cast and crew contribute. Like I said, sounds horrible.
Ismael Judá Moraes Reis Dias the reason I think video games fail is that they are. Episodic in nature. Action is contained to sections. That type of story telling is death to a film. It would take clever writing to lift the story above that, yet keep the feel of the game.
Craig, I'd love to make "Really Old School" myself...especially if I had the dough.
"ROS" would be my choice because (1) it all could be shot here in the Omaha/Council Bluffs/Bellevue area, where the bulk of the screenplay is set (even Scott Sanderford's San Antonio cell-phone scene could be filmed here rather than in the Alamo City); (2) coming into the current global pandemic, the Omaha Metro's stage scene was pretty darn active, what with the Omaha Community Playhouse and the Omaha Theater Company for Young People leading the way; and (3) you'd have a teen movie where, for a wrinkle, a different form of music other than rock or hip-hop was the main focus.
Maybe some local stage performers would want to step forward and go in front of the camera with "Really Old School." (After all, the OCP was the springboard for two legendary Oscar winners: Henry Fonda and Marlon Brando.)
Great question, Craig...and all the VERY BEST to you!
Craig – what part of that sounds horrible to you? Is it that I'm attempting to write an Oscar worthy script? Is it that I have the wherewithal to produce it myself? Is it that I'm trying to help inexperienced cast/crew develop interest/experience in the filmmaking industry. Is it that I may fail? What is it that you find horrible?
If asked this ten years ago, I would say probably...
Now? No way....directing is a hustle way beyond my current zen-ish proportions.
I'd love to direct my feature LIAR'S TOWN. It's a fictionalized/reflexive true crime thriller that takes place in rural NH. I'm already casting in my head.
I'm up to sixteen feature scripts now, but I like CONFESSIONS OF ST. MARY'S the more I read it. It involves kids and a rogue type burglar. I like kids (have twenty grandchildren) so I wish this screenplay could get produced. A little bit of everything for all types of people.
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I'd produce my in-dev comedy, "Casper Van Dien is a D*ck" because it would be the cheapest to make and if produced with excellence, could potentially provide a start to my full-time career.
Craig - My model will probably be more Neil LaBute - make a film on next to no budget and hope to breakthrough with it. It's a great plan except for the challenge of finding the right partners to work with.
Right now, I'd make "MASKS". It has the most chance at cross-over appeal, it would full a niche (I believe) in genre films that has not been successfully filled and could (and I emphasize COULD) lead to sequels and/or an expanded universe.
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Doug Nelson I think unless you know the people well. This type of model could quickly grow into next “industry readiness report prepared by expert script analysts”.
Getting hopefuls to pay. Making them think they need to pay to get a foot in the door.
You know - horrible.
Not your endeavour to make a short film.
Craig, I don't follow your line of reasoning at all.
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Doug Nelson there is an entire industry established to take money from writers. It feeds on the desperation.
Now, asking people to pay to be on a movie set to get experience feels the same to me. I can see an industry forming around this very notion. Which I think is a horrible notion.
However, if you had a group of people that all decided to throw in money to make a film, that would be different. You have honourable intentions, no doubt.
But this model could be the next exploitation system to blight this industry at the amateur ranks.
Craig, wherever you got the idea that I want people to pay me to be on set is way beyond my understanding.
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Guys. I said I heard of someone that used that method to fund a film. I said it should bad. I never said Doug was doing that.
I said it may be a way if you were comfortable with the people you were working with. However, I could see it becoming a bad thing in the future.
Not Doug..... Someone else....
Yes people work for free all the time to gain experience.