While we're working on filming and trying to be wrapping up on American Nightmare 3D and possibly shooting another film as soon as we're done called Consumed 3D; I want to address the elephant in the room, Simon Lange and his return. We were planning on having Simon Lange back almost two years ago, but, we needed a budget. And also, with how American Nightmare 3D ends and establishing a "universe" in my films, AN3D has a connection with Simon Lange and Damien Frost. The plan was to make a sequel to American Nightmare 3D called the Next Day. The plan now is to integrate the Next Day into Afterlife thus making this an epic three hour feature, or possibly longer than three hours.
While we have shot most of the ending to AN3D with green screen elements which need finished with the bathroom back drop being a bloody mess. Simon Lange is not in the initially shot ending, but, who knows. We might just give a tease to Afterlife and bring a Simon Lange cameo into the film. That's not to say that the ending is all ready a tease to Afterlife.
We will be recasting and doing flashbacks for most of the characters who appeared in American Nightmare 3D as Christina will be playing a character known as "The Villain" in Afterlife and I will be playing Damien Frost and doing double duty with Jamie on Simon Lange. Lionel Wallace, played by Abby, will be re-casted as there is a Rebecca Lange flashback and footage from The Tape will be seen in Afterlife.
Another problem we might run across is the run time. If we make the movie long as in over three hours, we might have to divide the film in two. And the problem is where to say; "Roll Credits"! Even though I did a whole rant and didn't really get to focus and concentrate for a majority of the movie, Attack on Titan: Part I just kind of stopped. You had this whole revelation about what happens to the main character and someone is laughing and the movie ends. Matrix Reloaded did that too. The only other movie that I can think of that didn't do that was Kill Bill Vol. I. It might just end up being Afterlife - Part I & 2: Traumatic Possession 3D. Time will tell on that decision.
The next draft of Afterlife: Traumatic Possession 3D will commence once we finish up post-production on American Nightmare 3D.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
The Orlando Eastwood Channel
So, big plans for the studio. We're working on the new website which will probably launch sometime in 2016. We still got a long ways to go on it, but, I have a section called "COMING SOON". In this section, I make reference to the shop, which will launch when we open. Hopefully in 2017/2018, we will be launching our own internet network! The Orlando Eastwood Channel is coming...
I've been looking at service providers and I have lowered it down to the line. I just have to contact them once we're within reach of going live. This place also gives you the option of multiple broadcasting channels. We are thinking of starting one channel and then moving on to a second channel. The initial roll out channel will be an eight hour loop which will repeat three times a day. We will repeating a whole daily broadcasts to help make viewing better. There will also be a VOD option.
I will be doing a video podcast regarding this whole channel soon.
I've been looking at service providers and I have lowered it down to the line. I just have to contact them once we're within reach of going live. This place also gives you the option of multiple broadcasting channels. We are thinking of starting one channel and then moving on to a second channel. The initial roll out channel will be an eight hour loop which will repeat three times a day. We will repeating a whole daily broadcasts to help make viewing better. There will also be a VOD option.
I will be doing a video podcast regarding this whole channel soon.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
#Waiting4ThisDay aka Birthday Celebration aka Attack on Titan aka NSFW aka Fan Vs Fanboy/Girl Rant
So, I know I am supposed to be AWOL here, but, I got a long NSFW rant here. Please divert your virgin eyes any further as I am going to be dropping some serious bombs here on FUNimation and various other things. Before I begin my rant, I want to quote 42nd Street Pete. Here's a film historian who focuses primarily on adult and exploitation films from the 60's to 80's. If anyone reads this and feels that my view is wrong on 42nd Street Pete, I do apologize for this generalization of the man. But, he knows his stuff regarding those two topics at hand that I have mentioned. I am wanting to share a quote with you from Mr. Pete regarding fans versus fanboys and fangirls. This was from his 42nd Street Pete radio show from January 8th, 2011:
Let me skip back to the beginning of September; Attack on Titan: Part I & II were announced for a small limited theatrical release here in the United States. I was dead excited. There was a theater that I go out to Columbus that both Abby and Bob Tesla turned me onto. This theater was announced later after a movie theater in the opposite direction in Oberlin was announced first. My fiancée and I were kinda opposed to the idea of Oberlin as it was unfamiliar to both of us.
The showtimes slowly updated through the weeks and a week or so in September and we saw that the theater in Columbus was playing Attack on Titan: Part I and was playing for a whole week as opposed to the three odd showtimes that the theater in Oberlin were playing it. And Tuesdays are the only day my fiancée doesn't have class and easy for us with our day jobs. The theater in Columbus had it scheduled for a 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM on the 6th whereas Oberlin was playing it only at 7:30 PM. Columbus worked in our favor. Columbus worked. Then the release date came for Part I and all hell had broken loose.
With this whole digital projection stuff, it's all computers and computing. Consider it like Netflix whereas if something is wrong with a video on Netflix, everyone sees the flaws across the country until Netflix fixes it. So, the subtitles screwed up on the last half of the movie and continuously displays; I've been waiting for this day!
Guess what? Theater in Columbus is effected by this subtitle problem. Oberlin received a good copy. All the showtimes were pushed back by a day to get the fixed version with the subtitles. I was bummed out and my fiancée knew that this was what I wanted to do for my birthday even though it wasn't until a week or so later. She felt bad, I felt bad, but; she wanted to make it right and we went to Oberlin. The theatrical experience made me go into a frenzy and I almost violent. Violence almost ensued at this movie theater.
A group of fanboys and fangirls came running into the theater wearing all this snazzy Attack on Titan apparel with pennants for their scout group and what not all over themselves. The biggest "attention whore crying out 'look at me, I need attention'." These cunts and I mean the word cunt with a passion. This group of kids sit next to my fiancée and I and blab through the whole fucking movie because of the changes. As a filmmaker, I can go on and on about the legal nightmare that it would be to get actual Japanese teenagers to do all the roles needed for this film. And I could go on that since it's a Japanese movie and that the kids have some European names and some have blonde hair and blue eyes, I am sorry that this is a Japanese film with Japanese actors. I am sure Toho could have given a bigger budget for this film, but, I am sure that the Japanese actors who auditioned for Eren and Armin knocked the casting directors dead for their roles.
But, my God, my fiancée even yelled at them to shut up after I went out twice to talk to management about these kids. Did anyone working there at the theater do anything? No. Just telling them to please be quiet DOES NOTHING! You kick these fuckers out and say DON'T COME BACK! One of these cunt-rag's phone went off and he answered it in the fucking theater. I was about raging hard. The blood was pumping hard in my hands and head. These were fanboys and fangirls, not fans.
To sit there and just criticize while there's a whole audience who paid hard earned money to watch this movie and to have it spoiled by you means you have no respect for art of film. Actual fans would have just sat there and took the story in. No film adaption, be it of a book or cartoon or of an older movie is usually good. There's few exceptions to this rule, but, I that's a topic for another day. These are the same kids who probably fifteen years ago thought that anything Japanese was for the weird kids. And probably also illegally torrent anime off the internet instead of supporting the genre which has been going the way of music via compact disc.
This is why I quoted 42nd Street Pete in the opening. Fans go all out to support their genres of choice. In the case of anime, my interests have died down these past few years with the exception of Studio Ghibli titles which are must watch at all costs. In my late teenage years and early adult years, even to this day; I've tried to attend theatrical screenings of Studio Ghibli films. I've managed to see big screen showings of Ponyo, Secret World of Arrietty, and When Marnie was There. I made my fiancée aware of Studio Ghibli films even though she had all ready seen Kiki's Delivery Service. And she even bought me the Blu-ray for that and Spirited Away.
Fanboys just download all this shit illegally and wonder why you can't find this shit in stores and distributed here in the United States. They've been subsequently killing the genre that they love and they do not care. These cunts probably downloaded all the episodes of Attack on Titan and said; "Fuck buying that shit!" Netflix has it currently for streaming and even then, probably don't have nine dollars to pay for that.
This is how hardcore of a fan I am, by no means I am not die hard like 42nd Street Pete, but, I do consider myself a fan of cinema and the art of film. Since I am a pro at encoding movies, I know how make my own private back ups of foreign movies with English subtitles so I can show my friends and my fiancée. I cough the money for German Blu-rays and use my skills with the German language to make a coherent English subtitle script for my personal viewing pleasure. I just went out yesterday before going to Oberlin to Best Buy to pick up Blu-ray copies of Tremors 5: Bloodlines and When Marnie was There. I show my support and loyalty to the high definition format and studios because maybe if I do this, I might get my wish and have a sixth Tremors movie.
As a fan, if there's a movie that I really love, I try to track down movie posters and various other goodies by studios. I have a giant box filled with over a hundred movie posters as well as numerous movie posters that are in nice 27 x 40 frames. And being regarded as a misfit, I was heavily inspired by Godzilla and Japanese cinema. I have a nice collection of Godzilla stuff up on my wall that is just amazing. I got posters, DVDs from all over the world, German and Spanish and U.S. Blu-rays that I have shoved fistfuls of dollars out to the various Amazons. I've been in love with Godzilla since I was three years old and it's a lifelong love that kids in school made fun of me for.
But, within the last fifteen years, we took a turn where all this nerdy stuff became mainstream. Some point after the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings films, this stuff became real mainstream. And with that, anime and nerd culture with scientific stuff became the norm. High school girls who were probably against that shit completely thirty years ago are now dealing with their kids who just eat this shit up like it's going out of style. These Marvel comic book films are filled with teenagers and teen girls who probably wouldn't give two shits about Iron Man or Avengers fifteen years ago and would have given me no time of day if I ever mentioned Hulk or Captain America. So, to this generation that loves this nerd shit with the Big Bang Theory, you can all go fuck yourselves.
Let's move on to Funimation. These assholes are the ones to blame for who fucked it for me and my fiancée. According to Bloody Disgusting, this is what Funimation gave in terms of an explanation;
So, let me repeat that; the handful of theaters that experienced the subtitle problem last night did not implement the fix, which resulted in the glitch during their screenings. And then they say and I repeat; FUNimation will be hardcoding subtitles on Attack on Titan Part 2 and other future releases to prevent this problem from happening again. So, they knew that there was a problem, blames the theaters and then this whole mishap goes down. And then claims that they'll actually burn the subtitles into the video for the movie itself for Attack on Titan Part 2. If you weren't planning on releasing the film dubbed into English along with the Japanese version with English subs, why make the subtitles a separate file in the DCP? No one will know the difference if you give the theaters a master that has the subtitles in the video file itself? No, we wouldn't! And to give this bullshit spiel is ridiculous. A part of me wants to just say; "Fuck you, Funimation! I'll buy the Hong Kong Blu-rays when they come out in the next few months!"
If you honestly knew that this was messed up, why even send it out to theaters to screen in the first place? And I even ranted on Facebook to which fanboys ranted back at me about my misfortune of not being able to see it in Columbus. Funimation almost not got my money! Bastards shouldn't have even gotten my cash. So, fuck you Funimation. I've been waiting for this day!
There is a difference between a fan and a fanboy.
Real fans respect the genre.
And we were happy to get anything associated with the genre. Be it books, toys, model kits, or whatever. We didn't have much to choose from, but, we were fucking happy to have anything. We were a minority. We were castigated and ridiculed for liking this stuff. We were branded weirdoes, creeps, and misfits and we wore that mantle proudly. We didn't want to be like anyone else. We respected the genre. Then came the fanboys.
Then you have the internet critics that, you know, criticize everything from content to box art and granted, these fuckers never saw the film in an actual theater. But, it'll take me the task because I didn't see this or I didn't see that. And these are the same guys who get a fuckin' woody for every little remake that's announced and things and says how much the original suck and say how much the new Last House on the Left was much better than the original.
And someone goes, the films are all streaked and beat up and stuff and that we changed the soundtracks. You're lucky we put the fucking shit out. And no matter what we do, they're bitching about it! And you know, unfortunately, the people who have good things to say are the minority because they are overshadowed with these fucking scumbags that keep doing this and fucking pissing all over the genre. It's really fucked up. Like I said; I grew up with this shit. You know, I wore my fuckin' weirdness and offbeat-ness as a badge of honor as I didn't want to be like everyone else. And now they took this whole, thick corporate crap and make it horror.In regards to burning film prints of exploitation films, Pete says;
No, it taking away what they want and breaks their little fanboy hearts to see something that they can't fucking download or fucking criticize.
They're not respecting anyone in this fucking genre. [In regards to illegal downloads of his restoration work.]
Let me skip back to the beginning of September; Attack on Titan: Part I & II were announced for a small limited theatrical release here in the United States. I was dead excited. There was a theater that I go out to Columbus that both Abby and Bob Tesla turned me onto. This theater was announced later after a movie theater in the opposite direction in Oberlin was announced first. My fiancée and I were kinda opposed to the idea of Oberlin as it was unfamiliar to both of us.
The showtimes slowly updated through the weeks and a week or so in September and we saw that the theater in Columbus was playing Attack on Titan: Part I and was playing for a whole week as opposed to the three odd showtimes that the theater in Oberlin were playing it. And Tuesdays are the only day my fiancée doesn't have class and easy for us with our day jobs. The theater in Columbus had it scheduled for a 1:30 PM and 7:30 PM on the 6th whereas Oberlin was playing it only at 7:30 PM. Columbus worked in our favor. Columbus worked. Then the release date came for Part I and all hell had broken loose.
With this whole digital projection stuff, it's all computers and computing. Consider it like Netflix whereas if something is wrong with a video on Netflix, everyone sees the flaws across the country until Netflix fixes it. So, the subtitles screwed up on the last half of the movie and continuously displays; I've been waiting for this day!
Guess what? Theater in Columbus is effected by this subtitle problem. Oberlin received a good copy. All the showtimes were pushed back by a day to get the fixed version with the subtitles. I was bummed out and my fiancée knew that this was what I wanted to do for my birthday even though it wasn't until a week or so later. She felt bad, I felt bad, but; she wanted to make it right and we went to Oberlin. The theatrical experience made me go into a frenzy and I almost violent. Violence almost ensued at this movie theater.
A group of fanboys and fangirls came running into the theater wearing all this snazzy Attack on Titan apparel with pennants for their scout group and what not all over themselves. The biggest "attention whore crying out 'look at me, I need attention'." These cunts and I mean the word cunt with a passion. This group of kids sit next to my fiancée and I and blab through the whole fucking movie because of the changes. As a filmmaker, I can go on and on about the legal nightmare that it would be to get actual Japanese teenagers to do all the roles needed for this film. And I could go on that since it's a Japanese movie and that the kids have some European names and some have blonde hair and blue eyes, I am sorry that this is a Japanese film with Japanese actors. I am sure Toho could have given a bigger budget for this film, but, I am sure that the Japanese actors who auditioned for Eren and Armin knocked the casting directors dead for their roles.
But, my God, my fiancée even yelled at them to shut up after I went out twice to talk to management about these kids. Did anyone working there at the theater do anything? No. Just telling them to please be quiet DOES NOTHING! You kick these fuckers out and say DON'T COME BACK! One of these cunt-rag's phone went off and he answered it in the fucking theater. I was about raging hard. The blood was pumping hard in my hands and head. These were fanboys and fangirls, not fans.
To sit there and just criticize while there's a whole audience who paid hard earned money to watch this movie and to have it spoiled by you means you have no respect for art of film. Actual fans would have just sat there and took the story in. No film adaption, be it of a book or cartoon or of an older movie is usually good. There's few exceptions to this rule, but, I that's a topic for another day. These are the same kids who probably fifteen years ago thought that anything Japanese was for the weird kids. And probably also illegally torrent anime off the internet instead of supporting the genre which has been going the way of music via compact disc.
This is why I quoted 42nd Street Pete in the opening. Fans go all out to support their genres of choice. In the case of anime, my interests have died down these past few years with the exception of Studio Ghibli titles which are must watch at all costs. In my late teenage years and early adult years, even to this day; I've tried to attend theatrical screenings of Studio Ghibli films. I've managed to see big screen showings of Ponyo, Secret World of Arrietty, and When Marnie was There. I made my fiancée aware of Studio Ghibli films even though she had all ready seen Kiki's Delivery Service. And she even bought me the Blu-ray for that and Spirited Away.
Fanboys just download all this shit illegally and wonder why you can't find this shit in stores and distributed here in the United States. They've been subsequently killing the genre that they love and they do not care. These cunts probably downloaded all the episodes of Attack on Titan and said; "Fuck buying that shit!" Netflix has it currently for streaming and even then, probably don't have nine dollars to pay for that.
This is how hardcore of a fan I am, by no means I am not die hard like 42nd Street Pete, but, I do consider myself a fan of cinema and the art of film. Since I am a pro at encoding movies, I know how make my own private back ups of foreign movies with English subtitles so I can show my friends and my fiancée. I cough the money for German Blu-rays and use my skills with the German language to make a coherent English subtitle script for my personal viewing pleasure. I just went out yesterday before going to Oberlin to Best Buy to pick up Blu-ray copies of Tremors 5: Bloodlines and When Marnie was There. I show my support and loyalty to the high definition format and studios because maybe if I do this, I might get my wish and have a sixth Tremors movie.
As a fan, if there's a movie that I really love, I try to track down movie posters and various other goodies by studios. I have a giant box filled with over a hundred movie posters as well as numerous movie posters that are in nice 27 x 40 frames. And being regarded as a misfit, I was heavily inspired by Godzilla and Japanese cinema. I have a nice collection of Godzilla stuff up on my wall that is just amazing. I got posters, DVDs from all over the world, German and Spanish and U.S. Blu-rays that I have shoved fistfuls of dollars out to the various Amazons. I've been in love with Godzilla since I was three years old and it's a lifelong love that kids in school made fun of me for.
But, within the last fifteen years, we took a turn where all this nerdy stuff became mainstream. Some point after the Star Wars prequels and the Lord of the Rings films, this stuff became real mainstream. And with that, anime and nerd culture with scientific stuff became the norm. High school girls who were probably against that shit completely thirty years ago are now dealing with their kids who just eat this shit up like it's going out of style. These Marvel comic book films are filled with teenagers and teen girls who probably wouldn't give two shits about Iron Man or Avengers fifteen years ago and would have given me no time of day if I ever mentioned Hulk or Captain America. So, to this generation that loves this nerd shit with the Big Bang Theory, you can all go fuck yourselves.
Let's move on to Funimation. These assholes are the ones to blame for who fucked it for me and my fiancée. According to Bloody Disgusting, this is what Funimation gave in terms of an explanation;
Both FUNimation and fans of Attack on Titan have been waiting for the day when the live action movie would open in theaters in the U.S. Unfortunately, fans at a handful of theaters last night did not have the experience that we hoped they would have.
As reported online, there was a glitch in the middle of the Attack on Titan Part 1 which caused the subtitles to freeze on a single line of text for 10 or more minutes while the movie continued to play. FUNimation became aware of the subtitle problem on Monday, September 28. All exhibitors were alerted to the issue and worked with Deluxe to provide a simple fix that same day to correct the software error. FUNimation and Deluxe followed up with all exhibitors the next day – Tuesday, September 29.
The handful of theaters that experienced the subtitle problem last night did not implement the fix, which resulted in the glitch during their screenings. Our theatrical division and Deluxe are in contact with these specific locations to confirm the fix is being implemented and what, if any, assistance FUNimation can provide to ensure this problem does not occur again during the remainder of the Attack on Titan Part 1 theatrical run. FUNimation will be hardcoding subtitles on Attack on Titan Part 2 and other future releases to prevent this problem from happening again.
So, let me repeat that; the handful of theaters that experienced the subtitle problem last night did not implement the fix, which resulted in the glitch during their screenings. And then they say and I repeat; FUNimation will be hardcoding subtitles on Attack on Titan Part 2 and other future releases to prevent this problem from happening again. So, they knew that there was a problem, blames the theaters and then this whole mishap goes down. And then claims that they'll actually burn the subtitles into the video for the movie itself for Attack on Titan Part 2. If you weren't planning on releasing the film dubbed into English along with the Japanese version with English subs, why make the subtitles a separate file in the DCP? No one will know the difference if you give the theaters a master that has the subtitles in the video file itself? No, we wouldn't! And to give this bullshit spiel is ridiculous. A part of me wants to just say; "Fuck you, Funimation! I'll buy the Hong Kong Blu-rays when they come out in the next few months!"
If you honestly knew that this was messed up, why even send it out to theaters to screen in the first place? And I even ranted on Facebook to which fanboys ranted back at me about my misfortune of not being able to see it in Columbus. Funimation almost not got my money! Bastards shouldn't have even gotten my cash. So, fuck you Funimation. I've been waiting for this day!
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Damn Weather Means Green Screen Work!
So, I am not making this post right now as I shipped my computer back to get the money back as it was having problems before the warranty expired. My gain as I am saving up to buy a nice $700 computer from Best Buy! I am halfway through the saving up. I should hopefully have the computer ready to go by November. So, I am going to be offline for a month.
However, the weather got cold fast. My fiancée and decided that it would probably be best to go out and film the back drops on the family property where we filmed Campaign and shoot. That means we will be bringing the actors back to my place and inserting them into the footage and having them act in front of the green screen. I was talking to a new buddy of mine about this and he was pretty happy with my decision to do green screen instead of taking them out there to film. This will make the filming portions easy for everyone but it means that I will be working harder on the post-production process.
I personally feel that this is something that is a good challenge for me. It means that I'll be doing a lot more work to try to make the December deadline. If not, it's not the end of the world. I'll be back ... soon.
However, the weather got cold fast. My fiancée and decided that it would probably be best to go out and film the back drops on the family property where we filmed Campaign and shoot. That means we will be bringing the actors back to my place and inserting them into the footage and having them act in front of the green screen. I was talking to a new buddy of mine about this and he was pretty happy with my decision to do green screen instead of taking them out there to film. This will make the filming portions easy for everyone but it means that I will be working harder on the post-production process.
I personally feel that this is something that is a good challenge for me. It means that I'll be doing a lot more work to try to make the December deadline. If not, it's not the end of the world. I'll be back ... soon.
Monday, September 21, 2015
The "CAMPAIGN" Project.
Back in September 2012, after my second ex-fiancee had left me, I was a mess. In an attempt to help get Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape finished, Abby pushed me to do a project about something that I really am passionate about. Thus, I had announced a project called Campaign. I had written three drafts before started filming and Abby helped out along the way.
Before we started filming, we did some test photos with me and some toy guns. I had informed a few friends about the project, some from Germany and Hawai'i who are very close friends. Then, I decided to get my buddies Jamie and Stephen involved to help with camera work. Since I was going to be doing the lead acting work in this, I wanted a two camera shoot. I geared up my Vivtar 810HD and my Kodak ZxD which are both 720p.
I had a friend who was suppose to be Rebecca Lange long before Abby took the role. She had given me the contacts for a few of her friends who were wanting to act and there was another person who was involved and wanted the female antagonist role. All had bailed on the project on the day of filming. While I understand that there was problems on their ends, I am not mad in anyway about them bailing. In this business, it's hard to get people who really want to do this. This left me with a dilemma. We lost the female antagonist along with the other two male antagonists.
Jamie and Stephen both arrive and I had to end up sticking them in front of the camera. They were unprepared but we filmed for four hours and wrapped up. Took the footage home and there was a lot of loose footage that we missed and ultimately, I decided to scrap it and move over to my old beat up hard drive. To those who are wondering what the Campaign is ... Marvel's The Punisher.
Out of all of the characters in the Marvel universe, Frank Castle by far my favorite character. Next to say Bruce Banner and possibly Magneto. In the early 2010's it was announced that Castle had came home to the Marvel film-world. As soon as I saw that the film rights had reverted from Lionsgate to Disney, I knew that I needed to somehow get my name out there as a possibility. Ultimately, I came, I saw, and I failed.
With Disney making Castle as part of Daredevil; I felt that now is the time to tell my story. I think that Joe Bernthal will be another great addition to the line up of actors who have portrayed Castle. It will also give me a reason to watch Daredevil as most people who know me know that I do not watch television shows at all.
With Campaign, I based my version of the character from characteristics from all three film adaptions. I liked the moody-ness of the Tom Jane; the brutality of Ray Stevenson; and the overall tortured soul of Dolph Lundgren's portrayal. Ironically, in my script, I did include mentions of Matt Murdock and did include Typhoid Mary as the female antagonist in the short film.
In the short film, I established that Castle is going to hunt down the three children of crime mob boss Ma Gnucci; the woman responsible for killing Castle's family. Castle finds out that her sons are meeting up to buy drugs from Maginty. He intercepts Maginty's men and meets up with Ma Gnucci's kids to slaughter them. However, when he arrives, only two of the three kids are present. Typhoid Mary was called in by the eldest son, Bobby. It turns into a bloodbath and Castle manages to kill the two brothers and spares Mary.
I wanted to show that Castle wasn't the mindless killing machine that we saw in Punisher: War Zone, but, keeping the brutal tone of vengeance as these are the people who killed his family. And at the same time show that he has some humility and something of a soul left intact. And there was an ending where we were going to bring in Micro and Lynn Michaels to help get Castle and Typhoid Mary back into town and to take Mary to Murdock to face his justice. But, with us losing who was supposed to be Typhoid Mary that day, we never finished it.
What had I had in mind for the project if I had gotten my wish and I was Frank? If we did manage to get a Marvel reboot, the film would have taken place across "Phase One" and "Phase Two". We would have revealed that it was Castle behind the scenes in the first Iron Man film as a soldier in Afghanistan as well as bringing in the injured soldiers who were apart of the Extremis Program in Iron Man 3. These injured soldiers were to be apart of his unit who were attacked and kidnapped by the Ten Rings terrorist organization.
Castle was to be one of the only surviving and mostly uninjured soldier being held in another part of the cave that Tony Stark was in. He was to have interaction with Ho Yinsen in the cave and Yinsen and Castle were the ones who put attached the battery to Stark's chest. Castle, being the soldier that he is, promised to bring back help to Yinsen and Stark. He escapes and kills a few of the terrorists on the way out the door. We then show Castle arriving to an F.O.B. and then all the events of Iron Man happen with Stark in the Mark I suit.
We would then get Castle home to his wife and have Rhodes play a predominant role in the story. Rhodes would be on par with Louis Gossett Jr's role in the 1989 film. We would soon get to the chase and have Castle's family executed while out on a picnic at a park in NYC. Frank would be injured and in a coma but would wake from his coma during the events of the Avengers with the aliens arriving and attacking. Unable to walk, Castle would manage to get out of the destroyed hospital, a la the Bride in Kill Bill, by crawling to safety and managing to help save a few New Yorkers in the process by managing to kill the aliens with their own weapons.
However, Frank would not be able to see the survivors to safety as debris from the hospital cracks him in the head and ironically puts him back in his coma. This heroic act from a paralyzed man gets back to Nick Fury who digs around and discovers who Frank Castle is. He knows that Castle has ties to some members of the Avengers and wants Rhodes to bring him into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s care. Frank was to wake up during the events of Iron Man 3. My planing points after that far in the script that I did start to write was show the Punisher dismantling AIM Technologies and the mob organization ran by Ma Gnucci.
Ultimately, the villains of my vision were to be Ma Gnucci and M.O.D.O.K. Ma Gnucci was to be left dead as in the comics by Castle throwing her into a bear habitat in a zoo. After doing the deed, Fury would call Frank to head to the AIM headquarters to destroy it. This would be happening as Tony and Rhodes would be off trying to save Pepper and the President of the United States at the oil tanker.
M.O.D.O.K. was to be a fierce and very systematic killing machine. I had it imagined that it would basically be doing all the killing of the AIM workers while it tried to kill Frank. Police would go into the AIM building and get slaughtered with the exception of a scared police officer who would be Lynn Michaels. She would be inspired by Frank and his methods to his madness and tries to help him kill M.O.D.O.K. and they would ultimately succeed.
So, what happened? In the months prior to Joe Bernthal being announced as the iconic Frank Castle; myself, Abby, Jamie, and Stephen talked about redoing the short and possibly doing it as a television pilot. To my irony, this is the route that Disney decided to go. I guess my dicking around is what caused the downfall. I have no one to blame but myself on this. Do I have any resentment towards Marvel and everyone involved with Daredevil? Hell, no. I would love to be back working with Disney like I did with my production assistant job on Lost. Because I know, that in this business, there are more failures than successes. But, when you do have a success, no matter how big or small, be thankful for it. It could just all disappear one day.
I am Orlando Eastwood. I love all my fans. Thank you for supporting me throughout the years and I hope once we have American Nightmare 3D ready, I can scare you all again. Take care.
I had a friend who was suppose to be Rebecca Lange long before Abby took the role. She had given me the contacts for a few of her friends who were wanting to act and there was another person who was involved and wanted the female antagonist role. All had bailed on the project on the day of filming. While I understand that there was problems on their ends, I am not mad in anyway about them bailing. In this business, it's hard to get people who really want to do this. This left me with a dilemma. We lost the female antagonist along with the other two male antagonists.
Jamie and Stephen both arrive and I had to end up sticking them in front of the camera. They were unprepared but we filmed for four hours and wrapped up. Took the footage home and there was a lot of loose footage that we missed and ultimately, I decided to scrap it and move over to my old beat up hard drive. To those who are wondering what the Campaign is ... Marvel's The Punisher.
Out of all of the characters in the Marvel universe, Frank Castle by far my favorite character. Next to say Bruce Banner and possibly Magneto. In the early 2010's it was announced that Castle had came home to the Marvel film-world. As soon as I saw that the film rights had reverted from Lionsgate to Disney, I knew that I needed to somehow get my name out there as a possibility. Ultimately, I came, I saw, and I failed.
With Disney making Castle as part of Daredevil; I felt that now is the time to tell my story. I think that Joe Bernthal will be another great addition to the line up of actors who have portrayed Castle. It will also give me a reason to watch Daredevil as most people who know me know that I do not watch television shows at all.
With Campaign, I based my version of the character from characteristics from all three film adaptions. I liked the moody-ness of the Tom Jane; the brutality of Ray Stevenson; and the overall tortured soul of Dolph Lundgren's portrayal. Ironically, in my script, I did include mentions of Matt Murdock and did include Typhoid Mary as the female antagonist in the short film.
In the short film, I established that Castle is going to hunt down the three children of crime mob boss Ma Gnucci; the woman responsible for killing Castle's family. Castle finds out that her sons are meeting up to buy drugs from Maginty. He intercepts Maginty's men and meets up with Ma Gnucci's kids to slaughter them. However, when he arrives, only two of the three kids are present. Typhoid Mary was called in by the eldest son, Bobby. It turns into a bloodbath and Castle manages to kill the two brothers and spares Mary.
I wanted to show that Castle wasn't the mindless killing machine that we saw in Punisher: War Zone, but, keeping the brutal tone of vengeance as these are the people who killed his family. And at the same time show that he has some humility and something of a soul left intact. And there was an ending where we were going to bring in Micro and Lynn Michaels to help get Castle and Typhoid Mary back into town and to take Mary to Murdock to face his justice. But, with us losing who was supposed to be Typhoid Mary that day, we never finished it.
What had I had in mind for the project if I had gotten my wish and I was Frank? If we did manage to get a Marvel reboot, the film would have taken place across "Phase One" and "Phase Two". We would have revealed that it was Castle behind the scenes in the first Iron Man film as a soldier in Afghanistan as well as bringing in the injured soldiers who were apart of the Extremis Program in Iron Man 3. These injured soldiers were to be apart of his unit who were attacked and kidnapped by the Ten Rings terrorist organization.
We would then get Castle home to his wife and have Rhodes play a predominant role in the story. Rhodes would be on par with Louis Gossett Jr's role in the 1989 film. We would soon get to the chase and have Castle's family executed while out on a picnic at a park in NYC. Frank would be injured and in a coma but would wake from his coma during the events of the Avengers with the aliens arriving and attacking. Unable to walk, Castle would manage to get out of the destroyed hospital, a la the Bride in Kill Bill, by crawling to safety and managing to help save a few New Yorkers in the process by managing to kill the aliens with their own weapons.
However, Frank would not be able to see the survivors to safety as debris from the hospital cracks him in the head and ironically puts him back in his coma. This heroic act from a paralyzed man gets back to Nick Fury who digs around and discovers who Frank Castle is. He knows that Castle has ties to some members of the Avengers and wants Rhodes to bring him into S.H.I.E.L.D.'s care. Frank was to wake up during the events of Iron Man 3. My planing points after that far in the script that I did start to write was show the Punisher dismantling AIM Technologies and the mob organization ran by Ma Gnucci.
Ultimately, the villains of my vision were to be Ma Gnucci and M.O.D.O.K. Ma Gnucci was to be left dead as in the comics by Castle throwing her into a bear habitat in a zoo. After doing the deed, Fury would call Frank to head to the AIM headquarters to destroy it. This would be happening as Tony and Rhodes would be off trying to save Pepper and the President of the United States at the oil tanker.
M.O.D.O.K. was to be a fierce and very systematic killing machine. I had it imagined that it would basically be doing all the killing of the AIM workers while it tried to kill Frank. Police would go into the AIM building and get slaughtered with the exception of a scared police officer who would be Lynn Michaels. She would be inspired by Frank and his methods to his madness and tries to help him kill M.O.D.O.K. and they would ultimately succeed.
So, what happened? In the months prior to Joe Bernthal being announced as the iconic Frank Castle; myself, Abby, Jamie, and Stephen talked about redoing the short and possibly doing it as a television pilot. To my irony, this is the route that Disney decided to go. I guess my dicking around is what caused the downfall. I have no one to blame but myself on this. Do I have any resentment towards Marvel and everyone involved with Daredevil? Hell, no. I would love to be back working with Disney like I did with my production assistant job on Lost. Because I know, that in this business, there are more failures than successes. But, when you do have a success, no matter how big or small, be thankful for it. It could just all disappear one day.
I am Orlando Eastwood. I love all my fans. Thank you for supporting me throughout the years and I hope once we have American Nightmare 3D ready, I can scare you all again. Take care.
Tuesday, September 15, 2015
The General DVD-R Release. Triple Feature.
So, I am currently looking at DVD-R duplication sites for the best deal. This is what we are going to do for the planned DVD-R release once we run out of DVD-Rs of the "Bootleg" editions. We are wanting to do dual sided artwork. One side will contain the artwork for Traumatic Possession: The Tape and the opposite side will contain artwork for American Nightmare.
The DVD-R will be a dual layered disc that will have all three films; Traumatic Possession: The Tape - Director's Cut, American Nightmare, and Into the Madness: A Documentary on the disc. The aspect ratio on all three films will be 2.35:1. There's not going to be any bonus materials included. I am not even sure if any of the planned commentary tracks will be included with the disc. I know we will have English subtitles included for those who are hard of hearing. I will be doing the menus and all of the authoring for the disc. And I will have myself and several others check for quality control issues.
The DVD-R will be a dual layered disc that will have all three films; Traumatic Possession: The Tape - Director's Cut, American Nightmare, and Into the Madness: A Documentary on the disc. The aspect ratio on all three films will be 2.35:1. There's not going to be any bonus materials included. I am not even sure if any of the planned commentary tracks will be included with the disc. I know we will have English subtitles included for those who are hard of hearing. I will be doing the menus and all of the authoring for the disc. And I will have myself and several others check for quality control issues.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
American Nightmare 3D - The Teaser Trailer and What's Next...
We're still filming. I got a week off from work and we're going to be hitting the cameras hard for American Nightmare 3D and the new director's cut for Traumatic Possession 3D: The Tape. Let's get this out of the way first.
The film will probably be up via online VOD first. Might do it on Youtube or Vimeo. I am also going to be working up distributions ASAP for Germany and Italy as I have a few contacts over there. The home video releases here in the States are going to be the deluxe "Bootleg" edition DVD-R and the VHS tapes. Both will be 100 copies. The "Bootleg" edition will contain four versions of the movie; 3D scope 2.35:1, 2D scope 2.35:1, 2D open matte 1.78:1, and the 2D 4:3/1.33:1 for the VHS version.
We are waiting on Afterlife: Traumatic Possession 3D as we need a budget. Abby is working on the Rebecca Lange spin off film. A Cat's Tale might be next. Not sure.
The film will probably be up via online VOD first. Might do it on Youtube or Vimeo. I am also going to be working up distributions ASAP for Germany and Italy as I have a few contacts over there. The home video releases here in the States are going to be the deluxe "Bootleg" edition DVD-R and the VHS tapes. Both will be 100 copies. The "Bootleg" edition will contain four versions of the movie; 3D scope 2.35:1, 2D scope 2.35:1, 2D open matte 1.78:1, and the 2D 4:3/1.33:1 for the VHS version.
We are waiting on Afterlife: Traumatic Possession 3D as we need a budget. Abby is working on the Rebecca Lange spin off film. A Cat's Tale might be next. Not sure.
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