This week I started reading Bret Stern’s How to Shoot a Feature Film for Under $10,000 (And Not Go to Jail) Great book, funny as hell. If you ever had the desire to become filmmaker it’s a good book to pick up and thumb through. A few of my film making friends decided to stop making short films and going for features. So I figures what the hell, I’ll at least entertain the idea. Though I do have one feature length script written it still needs a lot of work. Also it is a collaboration so I need my friends blessing before proceeding. However, do I want to get two more short films under my belt before proceed down the path of the great feature length film.
I’ve decided that I want to do a bare knuckle, hard hitting, gritty action movie. No explosions, no guns, just fist, bats and a lot of ass beatings. The plot is pretty simple. Thug breaks legs for a living. Thug wants more out of life. Thug wins the lottery and wants to skip down, all hell breaks loose. Though out the course of the story and want the protagonist to get more and more beat up as well as do a fair bit of ass kicking himself. So I guess we’ll see where this goes. I really want to get Dodging Bullets and 187 done first.