Ah, yes, I’d forgotten that when you’re doing really interesting stuff you generally forget to blog. That month just flew by. Damn it. This will be resolved, honest.
Quick catch up then – in the last couple of weeks I’ve…
- had an enormously entertaining lunch meeting with the awesome Gayle Cooper from Maverick FX to talk prosthetics and blood pumps
- been to London to talk future of television, sci-fi, webcomics, publishing and just about every other type of media with the heavy hitters that are @sizemore and @walkley (I’m just going to presume if you’re reading this you’re at least aware of Twitter and we shall say no more about it)
- Stayed in London to concoct cunning plans for our next publishing imprints. All progresses well there, but no announcements just yet.
- Spent weeks agonising over the figures of businesses which I eventually didn’t buy and still can’t discuss because of the NDAs. (they were quite exciting though, trust me)
- Went to the screening of Joseph Morgan and Matt Ryan’s short film ‘WITH THESE HANDS’ which my creative partner Luke Massey (@lukemassey) D.O.P.ed. Good stuff. (shame about the all-night drinking in Camden that ensued afterward.
- Met the fantastically talented young artist, Chris Wildgoose, who’s doing all our concept work for the film (Warhouse – full explanation in the next blog post)
- Came back home to find our location for the film had gone south. Bad.
- Got news that Joseph Morgan (our lead for the film) had just got the title role in the ABC remake of BEN HUR. Good.
- Spent a 50 hour week with Luke finishing the goddamn script so we could send it off to all the relevant parties. Nearly. Killed. Us.
- collapsed in a heap for a few days before digging back into the publishing to-do pile.
- Had the absolute pleasure of having Joe up to stay for a few days. We did a day with Gayle getting lifecasts done for both him and William Troughton (one of the other actors) to use for prosthetics. Great fun (as long as you weren’t claustrophobic). He then stayed for two days of read-throughs, rehearsals, script analysis and drinking. Good stuff all round and most entertaining watching the poor man struggle to get through the monster mound of calories and protein he needed to eat for his training diet for Ben Hur .
…and that’s sort of up-to-date. A proper film post next, I think, to talk about exactly what we’re doing and how we’re doing it.
TTFN