Okay, many of you already know this, but to make it official, we’re shooting a movie this summer.
The working title is “You Can Only Do It In Black And White”. It’s a comedic murder mystery set in Frankfort, MI.
We’ll be shooting on a very low budget, guerrilla style. We should have a web site up soon and we’ll start begging for money then.
I’ll be writing and producing,
Brian Bentley will be directing,
Micah Carnes will be starring as Noah Wexford,
my wife, Tia Twigg will be doing most of the design work along with coaching and training the actors.
Cassie Frank is our Production Assistant, in charge of keeping us all organized and on schedule.
We are in the early stages of casting the rest of the flick.
More on the project as it develops….
This is not what I expected.
When it was announced that Tom Cruise had been given control of the old United Artists label, I (like many others) assumed that it would quickly become a summer blockbuster factory. The one thing that Cruise has always been very good at is spotting commercial potential. I expected action flicks, sci-fi flicks, thrillers, maybe even some romantic comedies.
I did not expect Lions For Lambs.
Politics aside, it looks like an interesting film. A quiet little picture, mostly focused on two conversations. One between Tom Cruise (a US military commander) and Meryl Streep (a reporter). The other between Robert Redford (a college professor) and Andrew Garfield (one of his students). The structure allows Redford’s character to preach the anti-war argument, while Cruise’s character preaches the pro-war stance. The conversations are balanced out with footage of two of Redford’s former students in combat.
In a film like this, I’d like to see a balanced presentation. Give both sides of the story and let the viewer decide. But this is a film directed by Redford and his political ideology is right upfront, this is an anti-war movie.
And it may be an excellent one. Unless it opens wide, I’ll have to wait for the DVD release to know for sure. But it sure does sound interesting, if incredibly non-commercial. And it really makes me wonder what Cruise and United Artists have up their sleeves for future releases….
