Interwebs interactivity

Attempting to create a way of making it easier to get updates on all the stuff that I am working on, whether it's a new review of "The Bet" or an update on Detox, or something else that happens to be in the works. Not that anyone reads these blogs... but I can pretend.

What I've got now is a feed into the new Detox blog (set to launch next month), and not much else. I am doing the best I can in the few days I have between work and side projects (and film stuff, of course), but got Feedburner going for rubberblog and tried to get the Detox feed updated on its Facebook page. I've got the rubberblog feeding to "The Bet" Facebook page. Just crazy how disjointed everything is:

Personal MySpace page
"The Bet" Myspace page
"The Bet" Soundtrack MySpace page
Detox MySpace page
Personal Facebook page
Rubbersquare Fan Club on Facebook
"The Bet" Facebook page
Detox Facebook page
rubberblog
Detox movie blog
Rubbersquare forum
Rubbersquare site
"The Bet" official website
Detox official website

Not to mention the built-in aspects at IMDb, Amazon, Film Baby, and soon IndieFlix for "The Bet" - and the RSS feeds from the blogs...

GAH!

New Blog

My name is Michael Dunn (also "The Man in the Planet) and I am a filmmaker.
Shortly after completing my directorial debut, the short film, "The Bet," I had an idea for a feature-length film. My co-writer on "The Bet," Chris Smith, agreed to tackle the project together.

In the next couple of days, I will begin this blog - which will go back in time to discuss how the script was conceived and written and follow it through the submission to festival and contests on its way to being produced. Should production actually happen, every facet of that will be covered here as well.

On the right is a box with "rubberblog Feed." That's my regular blog that covers everything that pops into my head. This blog is dedicated to Detox.

Feel free to comment, question and subscribe.

Final Detox teaser poster

Here it is.

As always, clicking makes it bigger.

Thanks to Francis George and Francis R Baytan for another excellent photoshoot and Leana Hildebrand for another awesome model.

Why is there a poster if there's no film yet? I wanted to promote the script with the same level of promotion I would give a film. I figure, if you don't advertise, no one will know about it. And I want people to know about it. So I am promoting it.

Why the religious imagery? Firstly, it was my gut response when imagining the syringe on the poster. Secondly, I am a huge fan of religious imagery. Third, it makes a weird kind of sense of how an addict would feel. And finally, it's a bit controversial - and controversy can be a good thing when you want attention.

The Farting Scientologist

No idea how long this will stay alive on the internets. I'm working on a longer version.



And, I just realised this isn't the first farting scientologist video out there. When Shannon was playing with the Whoopie Cushion widget over Tom Cruise's weird ass video, I nearly died and we thought it'd be great to do to him what other had done with the Farting Preacher. Well, as I've learned (with both Detox and Beautiful) there's no such thing as an original idea.

Death sucks

While roaming the user films section at DVXUser, I came across a post that shocked me. It mentioned that an actor named Chase Korte had died in a car accident early last year. Don't know him? Most people probably don't. I did.

I have this morbid joke about how, when I'm developing a script, I'll mentally cast people to help develop the characters - some of those actors have been: Heath Ledger, Brandon Lee and Brad Renfro - I think you get the punchline.

I did a spot for a local hospital a few years ago (I didn't direct, I work for the ad agency that developed the spot based on my idea) and, during casting, immediately was drawn to Chase's audition. He really stood out. As rarely happens, there was no second-guessing his casting from the agency nor the client. And he was great to work with. So great, I tried to contact him to see if he'd be interested in playing James in "The Bet." He was even one of my mental notes when working on Detox (as was Brad Renfro).

It's a shame there's so little of him in the final commercial, but I'm including it in the post anyway. He's the one who starts it off with "It's hard to explain the feeling..." Hard indeed.

Scarier

The transition in Jacob's Ladder from the normal hospital to the hell hospital was and is far scarier and creepier than the CGI paint peel in Silent Hill - the movie. Very subtle. But haunting. Even the change in Silent Hill 2, the game obviously, was scarier than peeling paint. Maybe not as visual, but much more sustaining in the creepy world.

I'll remember this.

Also, Jezzie's swap from evil to good to evil... remembering that, too.