Trouble in Hollywood

[OrlandoEastwood]

Yeah, I know the feeling. I was supposed to be shooting two films right now; Damien Frost and it's sequel The 2012 Effect. You know what happened? The local producers in the area jumped ship so they are not getting made anytime soon. So, I am now spending my own cash to finance Maze of Thought.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

Yeah, I know the feeling. I was supposed to be shooting two films right now; Damien Frost and it's sequel The 2012 Effect. You know what happened? The local producers in the area jumped ship so they are not getting made anytime soon. So, I am now spending my own cash to finance Maze of Thought.

You're currently working on 3 films? Are these full length or shorts??

[OrlandoEastwood]

Full length. I've been doing short films and PSA work for the past four years.

[WyldeMan45]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

Full length. I've been doing short films and PSA work for the past four years.

Damn and aren't you like 21? I thought I read somewhere you where even younger than me.

[OrlandoEastwood]

I'm 19, pushing 20 here in the next 4 months. I've been taking film classes since my eight grade year in middle school and I've committed myself to it. I decided that it's what I wanted to do at the age of 4.

[fatediesel]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

I'm 19, pushing 20 here in the next 4 months. I've been taking film classes since my eight grade year in middle school and I've committed myself to it. I decided that it's what I wanted to do at the age of 4.

You're 19 and you've already been engaged twice? When I was 19 I was nowhere near mature enough to get engaged. Honestly I'm 26 now and I don't think I'm mature enough to get engaged.

[SquidPuppet]

stars Jessica Biel as a small-town waitress who, upon getting a nail in the head, starts to get overtly horny.

And its halted.....BUMMER

[OrlandoEastwood]

Originally Posted by fatediesel

You're 19 and you've already been engaged twice? When I was 19 I was nowhere near mature enough to get engaged. Honestly I'm 26 now and I don't think I'm mature enough to get engaged.

I get that a lot. I moved to Germany in 2003 and had a nervous breakdown due to the language barrier and I just went nuts and decided to shape myself up with the German language to get around and learning the language and then throwing French on top of that was even more challenging. So, I spent my time just working on my language skills and somehow I just noticed how childish all my peers acted and they were the typical "Dumb American" stereotype who lived in Europe but did not care to learn the language and claim that they are all the best without knowing the proper history and so on. So, I wasn't going to fall in with those groups and then I met fiancee #1 and we were together for two and a half years and we called it off in '06. Long story short; German chicks are a little crazy, at least the ones in the area I was living in.

But my second engagement has been going good since October when I popped the question. What the first engagement was missing was the emotional commitment. It wasn't really there at all and with my fiancee, we both feel it and we both acknowledge how much was love each other and all the other things about love.

Originally Posted by thunderclap

You're having better luck than me. I was well into pre-production on my second feature when an investor backed out due to debt. When he pulled out another investor got nervous and backed out. So now I'm scrambling trying to find other investors but keep bumping into walls because of the economy. No one wants to invest.

And this was the cheapest of three features I have in development, one being an adaptation from a New York Times Bestselling Author. I thought that one would be the easiest to get funded but that proved to be wishful thinking since I've been trying to get that one off the ground for six years. So I'm sitting on three really good scripts and can't do anything with them at the moment.

Anyway, good luck to you with Maze of Thought. I hope it comes to fruition for you.

Thank you for the good luck.

I had my first film pitch when I was 15, back in May 2005. I did a pitch to an indie studio out in Ohio and I pitched a film called Hallelujah. It was a police/detective drama about hunting down a serial killer. When I did the pitch to one of the head guys at the studio, he liked it and gave me the green light to write the script for them and take my time with it since they were all ready busy with their next project. So, about a month and a half later I had a majority of the script written. It probably needed about another 30 pages and it would have been completed and the studio went bankrupt and they closed and that was that. So, in shock and horror, knowing that the script wasn't going anywhere, I have never completed the script for Hallelujah but I have re-visited the pages I've written for inspiration.

I had my second deal last year with Uwe Boll and that was just a can of worms I should have never gotten myself into. That man is the king of arrogance. I was to write the script for Janjaweed which is now retitled Darfur. Pretty much it's a pointless two hour massacre film that takes place in the Sudan. There was no real plot nor character development in the treatment that Uwe Boll wrote. Uwe wrote a seven page treatment that basically described how he wanted poor Sudanese women to get raped and infected with HIV and AIDS; children getting slaughtered; and men getting limbs hacked off by machetes from the rebels aka the Janjaweed. You know who he told me he wanted for the lead in the film? I s*** you not, he wanted George Clooney. He wanted me to write a script that would attract big name actors and I gave that script 150% when I wrote it; just to have it thrashed by a man who did not like that I added all the character development to the story.

Due to creative differences, I left the project and I took my script with me. Since I cannot do anything with that script since it's not based off my work; I am redeveloping it into a real serious dramatic film that is about finding the will to survive in Darfur through the hellish conditions that the Sudanese men, women, and children face.

On Damien Frost and The 2012 Effect; I wrote them back in December and March and planned filming mid-April through mid-May. Yes, two films in one month. I wrote Damien Frost as a Blair Witch/Cloverfield type film where it's all from the point of view from the video camera which was something that I always wanted to try doing. So I figured that something like that can be shot in a good two weeks if it's done properly. I was planning to shoot it second and do The 2012 Effect first. I had about 3 people interested in producing the films and they were all like; "These are going to be great! Let's go out and make it happen!"; etc, etc, etc. They bailed on me when it got down to start casting back in March. So, I was really; and I mean; REALLY pissed off that this had happened.

One was doing work with VH1 for Antonio Saboto Jr's dating show; 'cause a has been actor is all the rage for reality tv. The other left for Europe. And then the third one just never really gave a damn about the projects. I was S.O.L. I am still planning on making those two films but just right now there is no way I can do them on a small couple of thousand dollar budget.

I am moving to Ohio here in the next couple of weeks. I wrapped on the script for Maze of Thought a couple weeks back and I am almost finished on the scripts for The Alpha Experiment and Damien Frost: Affliction. I'm planning on shooting in July and spending a month after filming to do editing and then shooting the next movie and repeating that cycle. I have a lawyer and in our contracts we have it stated that the actors are not really going to get any money until after said film is released and the studio can make money off of it. Casting hasn't started yet on Maze of Thought, but casting is almost finished on The Alpha Experiment.

The stuff I am doing right now is going slow but steady which is the kind of pacing I need for right now so I can get better at doing full length feature films. I even have distribution in line for Maze of Thought; hopefully if all goes well with the studio, we can have my other stuff released by them.

[thunderclap]

Originally Posted by OrlandoEastwood

Yeah, I know the feeling. I was supposed to be shooting two films right now; Damien Frost and it's sequel The 2012 Effect. You know what happened? The local producers in the area jumped ship so they are not getting made anytime soon. So, I am now spending my own cash to finance Maze of Thought.

You're having better luck than me. I was well into pre-production on my second feature when an investor backed out due to debt. When he pulled out another investor got nervous and backed out. So now I'm scrambling trying to find other investors but keep bumping into walls because of the economy. No one wants to invest.

And this was the cheapest of three features I have in development, one being an adaptation from a New York Times Bestselling Author. I thought that one would be the easiest to get funded but that proved to be wishful thinking since I've been trying to get that one off the ground for six years. So I'm sitting on three really good scripts and can't do anything with them at the moment.

Anyway, good luck to you with Maze of Thought. I hope it comes to fruition for you.