This weekend we have a special second update because news this hot can't wait until next week! A new character will be introduced in Hookman: Redemption, a character who plays a key role in the early part of the story: Jim-Bob. Up until this weekend, that role was to be filled by Molly (aka Tum-Tum) because she has such a good dramatic range. However, an opportunity arose to cast that character with another actor who is well-known as a creepy character actor in B-Horror movies: John Karyus.
John Karyus as "Freddie the Holy Hobo"
"Scaryus Karyus" has been in such films as The Summer of Massacre, Poultrygeist, and Silent Night, Zombie Night, among others. We are lucky enough to catch him after he wraps acting as a demonic clown in a new Full Moon movie. You can see his partial credits here.
Mr. Robert Downs, Jr. on May 15, 2011 - Day 1 of shooting Hookman: Redemption
May 15th marked the one-year anniversary of the first day of production on Hookman: Redemption - and what do we have to show for it? Well, quite a lot, actually. We started out with 52 scenes to shoot. As it stands right now, there are 26 scenes left. When you look at page count, we're at about 32 out of 60 pages. Crap, that's like half the movie!?
Well, sorta. We started out with seven poker scenes to shoot, and they're ALL complete, thank god. We also started out with ten songs to shoot, and eight of those are complete. Songs in the script occupy about 2 lines on a page, but can take up to four minutes of actual screen time. Plus they take much more time to shoot than a standard dialogue scene. So maybe we're a little over halfway done.
That's good, because as of this past week, everything that has been shot so far has also been edited into a rough semblance of a movie, and that clocks in at about one hour. ONE HOUR OF HOOKMAN GOODNESS.
The edit in its current form - clocking in at 56 minutes with half the movie left to shoot.
Two weeks from now, we'll just be wrapping up a three-day shoot aimed at knocking out the rest of the scenes that require all the main cast. In three days we plan on completing nine additional scenes, totaling 18 pages of script - comprising two fight scenes and two songs, among other things. Therefore, in two weeks time there will only be about 12 pages left to shoot over the course of four or five short pickup days with only partial cast - the scraps.
That's pretty good progress, I'd say. It still needs a TON of sound work, and many hours of visual effects work put into it, but that's what the fall is for.
Here's the edit in it's current form (sped up twenty-five thousand percent):
This weekend, the actress who plays Mrs. Svletfanzi is graduating from college. As such, we thought this would be the perfect time to launch the first in a multi-part series, "The Many Faces of Hilary."
Hilary has this special gift whereby she can seemingly turn her face into plastic and mold it into strange and grotesque shapes. The plasticity of her face allows her to achieve a wide range of expressions and shapes not normally found in nature. What follows is a glimpse into her unique talent - moments often caught by accident in between takes, or when she didn't know the camera was rolling. This is but a small sampling of her facial tableau; her true range is so full and diverse we could never dream of taking them all in, nor could we be lucky enough to have a camera rolling to capture them when they spontaneously occur. And keep in mind:these are just from one scene!
