Last week seemed to fly by, but I guess it’s understandable given all the
stuff that’s been going on. With a deal getting ever-closer to put Visions
of Sarah into production, one of the producers wound up getting a tour of
the immense new studio being readied up in Connecticut by DogstarDGM. I’m
told the producers came away quite impressed with the facility, the
management up there, and of course, with the tax credits available. The
place is huge, will have everything a film company needs right on-site, and
with the company I’m dealing with having offices in New York, Connecticut is
a hop-skip-and-jump away. I know I was pretty jazzed just listening to the
online presentation, and that was even before I got the first-hand
recounting of the grand tour, so that made for a good weekend, despite the
way the NFL games went on Sunday.
Also on the film front, it appears that investors are making firm
commitments to the producers now, the financial instruments & paperwork
necessary to actually secure financing are in place and are being sent to
prospective backers, and there’s already been one request for a meeting. I’m
planning to go up to New York anyway sometime in the next month or so, so it’d
be nice to tag-team in some producer head-to-head time while I’m in town.
Also getting my blood pumping is the knowledge that they’re now dealing with
a casting agency to explore potential leads for the film, and that’s where I’m
dangling my mental rabbit’s foot at the moment. The folks being talked about
are A-list and in demand, so that always creates headaches when it comes to
trying to nail down a production schedule, but if they can secure even two
of the top four targets, this project’s going to get thrown into
pre-production so fast it’ll probably give a couple of us whiplash.
But so what. I can always go to Walgreens and get a neck brace…
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Currently listening to: Today I Woke to the Rain of Blood by Combichrist
