Good News

Well, good news has come to my ears today - our main shooting location has been found. Wait, let me try that again. Our main shooting location has been FOUND!! That's better.

Most of the movie revolves in and around my character's house. Paul's house has been the number one priority location to find - and that has finally come to pass. After sickness and the holidays (what do you mean you'd rather spend time with family than shoot a movie?? I just don't understand you normal people), things have finally picked up again - right where they left off. Our next hurdle is finding a good bar to shoot in, but that is only for one scene. Paul's house just about starts and ends the movie, and is the set for some very important scenes throughout.

Haha, I'm really very tired... because I should be more excited about this than I am. Perhaps it's just shock, though, that is yet to wear off and tomorrow morning I'll end up running around the house like a madman. Perhaps. Anyways, thanks for the tip on the house, Todd... good find.

I look forward to seeing it, myself, to shooting this movie with some great actors, and of course, as always, I really look forward to shaving ;)

Second Month of Production

Haha, well... things are the same as they were last month - in that nothing has happened. Now that sickness and the holidays are behind us, though, things should start up again soon.

I hope.

I really, really hope.

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In other news, though, last week I finally sat down and read the script for The Dark Knight. Even just reading the script left me in awe at the end. It's a wonderfully written movie. A few days after that, Nick told me we should be rehearsing this coming weekend, so I picked up the Get Back script to go over my lines. As I read through, I fell in love with the story all over again. I'm not tooting my own horn, but I really love the layers that are in the script. It was a good story, that became a better script, that has improved even more so with rewritten/additional scenes. I wouldn't dare compare ANYTHING I've done to what was done in The Dark Knight, but in some ways, I find a similarity. Both deal with personal, human issues while in the setting of something more grand and potentially cliche. When people ask me what Get Back is about, I can't sum it up by saying it's a "revenge movie," because there is much more to it than that. I know I wrote it, so it's hard to not sound arrogant, but believe that it is only because of how proud I am of it that I talk like this.

As an actor, I can't wait to give life to this flawed, lost character. As the writer, I can't wait to see the wonderful nuances of the various characters and dialogue come to fruition as we shoot. And as a movie lover, I can't wait to see the final product. I hope we can put together something that isn't just "good for our level," or "better than what we've done before," or at the very worst a "cool" movie, but something that stands on it's own simply as a good, solid movie.

I hope.

I really, really hope.