Yesterday I had a minor procedure on my jaw because it has been locked for, oh, the last 6 months. So needless to say I'm very grateful to have it over and being able to open my jaw, but even a minor procedure where they knock you out, really takes it out of you. Besides, who doesn't like drug induced dreams? It was those drug induced dreams though gave me some really exciting ideas that popped into my head early this morning. Since this blog is supposed to be about my journey to become a film maker, it's only appropriate that I actually write about said journey.
For the last year and a half I've been working on a screenplay, a time traveling action romance that takes place during WW2. It's the one that I went to LA to pitch and that got some interest while I was out there. It's also the script that I panicked over and never sent. It's a moot point now and I'm moving past that.
Anyway, I've been trying to figure out how on earth I would be able to shoot this film. I never figured that there would be anyway that I would ever be allowed to direct it. I know that I need to get a feature film under my belt and I figured that I would do that with my script, "Watch Me Disappear". While I love the script, I realize that it really won't be a commercially viable script, but it would probably do really well on the festival circuit. I also know that overall it's not the kind of film that I want to make on a regular basis. I would much rather make action adventure, science fiction type films.
So going back to my time traveling action romance script with the working title "Just After a Lifetime", I really though that it would just be too big for a first time film maker. Which leads me to the brilliant (though it could mostly be the drugs) idea that I had this morning. The script was written for the most part to take place in a single location and with a relatively small cast. I think in the back of my mind, I figured that the only way it was ever going to sell. But its just those parameters that made me think that I might just be able to shoot this film after all.
It goes back to a film that was shot here in Utah several years ago called "Saints and Soldiers". It's a WW2 film that has basically a single location and a minimal cast and shot for about a million dollars. While I'd love to say that I have a million dollars just sitting in my back pocket, I don't, but it's because I know that film was shot here in Utah that I know that I can shoot most of "Just After a Lifetime" here in Utah. There would need to be some location work, and oh darn, we'd have to go to Italy, but it's entirely within the realm of reality for me to direct.
Now that I'm not in complete survival mode, it's really just time for me to stop being scared of putting my scripts out there and start contacting some of the local producers here and see if I can get some traction and see what it would REALLY take for me to get a feature film under my belt.
In the meantime, I think I'm going to crawl back under the covers for a little while longer to see what other strange and wonderful drug induced dreams might come my way.
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