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Darkchyylde t1_iu24ty1 wrote

Please for the love of all things holy don't cast Will Ferrell in it.

Where did you get the idea?

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stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu25uf1 wrote

Haha, well considering I'm trying to get it made on a smaller budget I doubt we'd be able to afford him. Would be tough to say no to him if he wanted to be in it though.

The idea just kind of came to me. I had been working as an actor doing small parts in big movies, doing the audition grind and was looking for a way to take my career to "the next level".

I saw an interview with Jon Favreau on Charlie Rose about how he was a struggling actor and wrote Swingers for he and himself to star in, and I related a lot to the things he was saying, and thought that maybe if he could do it, I could do it too.

I've always loved Halloween but I'm not a big horror movie guy, and I thought there was definitely a market for a movie like this. Especially nowadays I feel like there's not a lot of good comedies that are being made and I'd like to be part of the solution in changing that.

This is the Favreau interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLIdd2snOoU

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Darkchyylde t1_iu274bd wrote

That's awesome. I do love the idea and would totally watch it

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Ok_Quiet_9375 t1_iu252rr wrote

First off good luck! Are you free to say who has been previously attached?

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stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu26qs8 wrote

Thank you. The people who were attached were behind the scenes people, producers that most people wouldn't recognize the names of. I've had conversations with certain actors, and actors' representatives about being involved but until you have the money, it's tough to get any big name actors attached.

Since I'm still actively pursuing getting this made I'd like to keep those names private for now. Ideally my friend and I who play the two main roles in the short would play those parts in the feature, we'd get a name actress to play the part of the girl and maybe get a big name for a smaller role that we would shoot for a day or two.

The conversations I've had were with people trying to get the bigger name attached first, then I could go to money people and say "Hey, we have _______ attached." It's kind of a double edged sword. Money people want name actors before they give you money and name actors want money before they sign on.

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