Hitting a Dead End

June 30, 2009 at 3:45 pm | Posted in Mike Lavoie | 2 Comments
Tags: dead end, when a hero comes along

What would Jason Bourne do?

As Keith struggles to make sense out of mutilated chunks of the Untitled Improv Movie, we are concurrently avoiding the conversation of what exactly we’re shooting this coming weekend. The good news is we know what we’re NOT shooting:

My “Whiteboard” and “The Proposal” are in varying states of disrepair
Keith’s “Spirits” takes place largely in a subway station and his “Still Life” roams all around Manhattan; so both are highly dependent on NYC not being a mob scene of tourists and police officers. Clearly, we did not take into account the July 4th weekend when we mapped out the shoot…
Keith’s sister, Caitlin McEwan, submitted a treatment we both like a lot, but it’s not quite ready to shoot
Other scripts that were submitted need rewrites, are too long or would blow our budget out of the water (ie: military Command Central, lake house in Seattle, Hospital helipad with a slew of EMTs awaiting a patient, etc.)

Now that that’s perfectly clear, what are we actually doing?

We just did our improv movie and we are planning on making another 24-hour film this fall for the Brooklyn Film Race, so those gimmicks are out. We have a very sexy “secret bar” that we MAY be allowed to use at some point, but it’s unavailable this weekend. We could also do a “one-take” movie, but that’s a gimmick that can tread perilously close to being just a gimmick, and the first priority, as always, should be to make a good movie.

We do have one script that has been sticking in my brain like a thorn, submitted by a friend of James Fauvell’s, Rick Lattimer. It’s an untitled acid trip of a movie that would make Salvador Dalí proud. Moreover, it’s unlike anything we’ve shot yet. Anything I’ve ever shot, in fact.

In action movies, when the hero is stuck in a dead end, he just kicks down the door, or scales the fence, or some deus ex machina rises over the wall behind him in a helicopter and blows away the Nazis with a couple M134 Gatling Guns. Could Rick be the pilot of that chopper?

Stay tuned…

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