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| Name: Ryan Roe Email: prawnrr-rmv@this.com-yahoo.com Position: Movie / Television / Comic Book / Trivia Geek View Ryan's Personal Profile |
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| Back in my sophomore year of high school, my buddy Tom Visel and I started work on an epic project., a script for a feature-length film. I had been making silly sketches and things with my family’s video camera for years, but this would be bigger than anything I had ever done before. The mere fact that it was scripted raised to a completely different level from my previous movie-length video, The Bottles, a Beatles parody/ripoff of Eric Idle’s The Rutles (which, without any kind of script or outline, ended up with a running time of 2 hours, 10 minutes). So Tom and I started writing this script, working on it during church youth group meetings and at lunchtime. Confident that we had something special on our hands, we decided to start shooting it before it was finished. We soon found that making a movie was pretty hard… our first and only day of taping ended with my cat pooping on the floor of the church rec room. The difficulty of realizing our vision may explain why we never finished the script. Or it could be that we just lost interest. When I look at it now, a few things come to mind. One is that it’s pretty stupid. Tom was interested in giving the whole thing a Monty Python feel, but I’m not sure we hit that mark. Another thing that strikes me regards the casting. We had in mind which of our friends were going to play which major roles (we even shot the intros for Dr. Gullet, Ringa, and Octavius), but who did we think would play all the minor characters? We didn’t know that many people! And would Tom, who hated theater arts class, really have been willing to memorize lines and think about characterization for his portrayal of Dr. Gullet? Anyway, I’m going to post the existing script pages here, just so they’ll finally see the light of day. And I’m going to do it in installments, to make it easier to read. And if any Hollywood agents are reading, I’m certainly willing to entertain offers for the rights to the script. CLICK HERE to read part one! Comments on this post are closed. |
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