"The Bet" script published

After too much tinkering, you can finally own "The Bet" - The Screenplay and Original Short Story from Rubbershop (which also has lots of other goodies) or directly from Lulu. You can also get a 24" x 36" print of either "The Bet" poster or the Detox teaser poster, as well.

The screenplay for “The Bet” by Michael Dunn & Chris Smith, available for the first time, is presented with the original short story by Michael Dunn. Together, they provide a unique insight into a moral tale, different in each medium, yet both with a strikingly powerful message.

In the hallway of a derelict building, a young woman is dumped and left. She is bound and gagged. Alone. The door on the opposite side of the hallway opens. Another man drags her away and into his room.

One minute. That’s the rule. One minute in each room.

As each of the two men wait for the minute to pass, biding their time in their unique way, they reveal more about the truth behind the game. And, slowly, the young woman will understand where she is and why she’s there.

Lulu is a print-on-demand service, but the entire book was laid out by me (yay, control freak) and looks pretty awesome. It's a 72-page paperback and has a bunch of photos.

At some point (hopefully in the next few months), there'll also be the Deluxe version, an 8.5" square paperback with color photos, annotations on the script and story, storyboards, and whatever else I can pack into it to get the demons out and close the book (so to speak) on this chapter (another unintended pun) of my life. Well, at least until I get the soundtrack done. THEN I'll be done with it.

So buy a copy now - or wait for the deluxe edition (which'll be quite a bit more expensive) or, hey, buy both!

Detox Fail #1

The Movie Deal (which we would have passed on HAD we won) has announced their finalists. Not us. Not even a finalist, though... that kinda stings.

Meh.

Also, Wildsound has fucked us for the second time, still not sending feedback, despite our payment for such.

Beginning to think this is a cursed project.

Ok, not really. It's too awesome for that kind of stigma.

FAIL #1

The Movie Deal (which we would have passed on HAD we won) has announced their finalists. Not us. Not even a finalist, though... that kinda stings.

Meh.

Also, Wildsound has fucked us for the second time, still not sending feedback, despite our payment for such.

Beginning to think this is a cursed project.

Ok, not really. It's too awesome for that kind of stigma.

3 degrees from Kevin Bacon

I was playing around tonite, after my kid was worried that the "long-haired guy in the red shirt) in Tremors was gonna die. And I said, "Kevin Bacon won't die!" Which prompted my son to ask who is Kevin Bacon. Which prompted me to tell him about the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. Which led me to this site which will connect any two actors. And while I didn't come up in the search (bastards!), Walt Turner did with a degree of 2 (he was in Vegas: Based on a True Story with Nancy La Scala who was in In the Cut with Kevin Bacon. And since I was in "An Uncommon Wager: The Making of 'The Bet'" with Walt, that puts me 3 degrees from Kevin Bacon. That's kinda cool. And it puts me higher than Kaleigh who has a Bacon Number of 4 - yes, it took a long time to find someone higher than me. Fuck it.

I miss writing

It's been an amazingly long time since I've written a story (screenplays don't count). I was just starting to get that little whisper of inspiration, the feeling like a nicotine craving or being horny that compels me to put words on a page (and not blogging).

Hopefully something will churn up. Now that I know it can be published (ok, publish on demand is good enough for me). Maybe the fucking novel will finally come out.