Slowly chugging through post on SMART HOUSE for a end-of-March deadline. Got a picture lock in and sent to the composer, with the color timing, sound mix, and some effects to put in. Really happy with this one.
Some sweet merch from SMART HOUSE, print run of two, came out from Ashlee Britt, who did script supervision on the film and also designed the Mothman tee shirt you see in the movie. It memorializes the image she drew on the slate, and one of her favorite lines. I got one and co-writer Richard Pierce got the other.
I just use a whiteboard for a slate. I don't need to use a fancy clapboard with my name written on it, and the DP, and whoever else. We know who worked on it. It seems like people like to have clapboards with their names written on it so maybe this is sacrilege.
Production on my new grandbaby wrapped up a few weeks ago as well. Her name is Amelia Rose and she is keeping everyone pretty busy. She cries whenever her Boompa looks at her so she may end up being pretty smart. Her great-grandma worked in the costume department on this project, as seen here.
Just got back from England, where I went on a field study with my wife and a group of students to learn more about Jane Austen. I read PERSUASION to prepare, which is about a dried-up spinster of 27 who tries to find love again. It actually would make a pretty good contemporary Lifetime movie. It would be fun to do a modern adaptation. I'm going to read NORTHANGER ABBEY next, which apparently is more of a Gothic and might also have trappings to do a b-movie version, you never know. I'd like to go more highbrow, at some point.
Best of all my week-long search to find my favorite comic 2000 A.D. ended at the airport, with a good story from Judge Dredd in it.
I've got another recommendation for those who follow this e-newsletter, and it's THE SORCERER OF PYONGYANG by Marcel Theroux. It's about a kid in North Korea who finds a D&D Dungeon Master's Guide a delegation from the West accidentally leaves behind, and everything that happens to him as a result of it. Someday I'd like to write a D&D adventure based on what's going on in the novel.
As far as my own writing, I'd like to pitch a new movie to shoot in the spring after we wrap SMART HOUSE for well and for good. I've got two things cooking and maybe will pitch both and see what happens.
Thanks for sticking around; a lot coming down the pike soon.
