doug maverick
03-28-2005, 10:57 AM
Hey guys,
just wanted to get something off my chest! i just finished shooting my first feature i wrapped like two weeks ago, the film was called the "Steel Project" it was produced by my company M.A.T.E. inc(martial arts theater ensemble), the exec producer and project leader was david blanc. from day one there were so many proplems, and arguments between me and the producer, he also wrote the film. I tried to give him a great film but he fought me on it tooth and nail, not verbally but through action, i won't get into details but through all that i think i put togather one hell of a film, and when it's finished in june i think people will agree(by finished i mean edited and scored). word to the wise for all would be directors if your producer says his girlfriend is an acting coach and then she becomes a producer, run like hell.
Now i'm working on my second film called "THE HIT", and action drama about a hit man, who runs into a whole **** load of trouble when his boss finds out he sleeping with his sons wife, it's set to be shot in three short films that will be put togather to make a feature(ala john woo's bullet in the head, didn't find that out till recently that he did the same thing) it stars, chris notarile(also the co-director) as the main character bruce, i'm already forseeing proplems with this one, but it's production proplems, you see chris has know athletic ability what so ever, so when i tell dude you can't do this cause it looks like crap, he gets upset like i don't respect him, and i have to tell him that i don't film crap so if you can't do it it doesn't go in, but i found a way around that, in a little japanese actor named kon tanaka, i'm going to use him as the "weapon" in terms of he will be handling all the hand to hand stuff (and even some gun stuff) while chris will stick to just shooting, and brawler type like fighting(E.i. punches in the face, rushing enemies crap like that) one thing i'm happy about this project is that i'm producer and co exec with chris and we work very well togather, we always come up with some crazy ass ideas, anyway we are still looking for a fight crew and though i posted here a few times i haven't gotten any responses, don't pass this chance up if you live in nyc and want to be in a cool action film, email me! anyway glad to have got that off my chest later!!!!!!!!!!!
just wanted to get something off my chest! i just finished shooting my first feature i wrapped like two weeks ago, the film was called the "Steel Project" it was produced by my company M.A.T.E. inc(martial arts theater ensemble), the exec producer and project leader was david blanc. from day one there were so many proplems, and arguments between me and the producer, he also wrote the film. I tried to give him a great film but he fought me on it tooth and nail, not verbally but through action, i won't get into details but through all that i think i put togather one hell of a film, and when it's finished in june i think people will agree(by finished i mean edited and scored). word to the wise for all would be directors if your producer says his girlfriend is an acting coach and then she becomes a producer, run like hell.
Now i'm working on my second film called "THE HIT", and action drama about a hit man, who runs into a whole **** load of trouble when his boss finds out he sleeping with his sons wife, it's set to be shot in three short films that will be put togather to make a feature(ala john woo's bullet in the head, didn't find that out till recently that he did the same thing) it stars, chris notarile(also the co-director) as the main character bruce, i'm already forseeing proplems with this one, but it's production proplems, you see chris has know athletic ability what so ever, so when i tell dude you can't do this cause it looks like crap, he gets upset like i don't respect him, and i have to tell him that i don't film crap so if you can't do it it doesn't go in, but i found a way around that, in a little japanese actor named kon tanaka, i'm going to use him as the "weapon" in terms of he will be handling all the hand to hand stuff (and even some gun stuff) while chris will stick to just shooting, and brawler type like fighting(E.i. punches in the face, rushing enemies crap like that) one thing i'm happy about this project is that i'm producer and co exec with chris and we work very well togather, we always come up with some crazy ass ideas, anyway we are still looking for a fight crew and though i posted here a few times i haven't gotten any responses, don't pass this chance up if you live in nyc and want to be in a cool action film, email me! anyway glad to have got that off my chest later!!!!!!!!!!!