stevesdemoreels

stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu2h0az wrote

Reply to comment by Story-Large in I'm an actor who made a short film based off a screenplay I wrote - a Halloween comedy about two 25 year olds who still go trick or treating every year. AMA! by stevesdemoreels

Tough to narrow it down to one and it changes all the time. I really like Lords of Dogtown and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford though. Others I like are The Place Beyond The Pines, The Prestige, Nightcrawler, Prisoners, The Sandlot, Point Break. I could give you a billion of them lol.

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stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu2fwu0 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Quiet_9375 in I'm an actor pitching my screenplay around Hollywood - It's a Halloween comedy about two 25 year olds who still go trick or treating every year. When their small town proposes cancelling Halloween due to fears of a serial killer in the community, they set out to find the killer & save Halloween. AMA by stevesdemoreels

This AMA got deleted so I had to re-submit it, here's the link to the new one: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yf9ki7/im_an_actor_who_made_a_short_film_based_off_a/

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stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu2fvm5 wrote

Reply to comment by Darkchyylde in I'm an actor pitching my screenplay around Hollywood - It's a Halloween comedy about two 25 year olds who still go trick or treating every year. When their small town proposes cancelling Halloween due to fears of a serial killer in the community, they set out to find the killer & save Halloween. AMA by stevesdemoreels

This AMA got deleted so I had to re-submit it, here's the link to the new one: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/yf9ki7/im_an_actor_who_made_a_short_film_based_off_a/

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stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu26qs8 wrote

Reply to comment by Ok_Quiet_9375 in I'm an actor pitching my screenplay around Hollywood - It's a Halloween comedy about two 25 year olds who still go trick or treating every year. When their small town proposes cancelling Halloween due to fears of a serial killer in the community, they set out to find the killer & save Halloween. AMA by stevesdemoreels

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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stevesdemoreels OP t1_iu25uf1 wrote

Reply to comment by Darkchyylde in I'm an actor pitching my screenplay around Hollywood - It's a Halloween comedy about two 25 year olds who still go trick or treating every year. When their small town proposes cancelling Halloween due to fears of a serial killer in the community, they set out to find the killer & save Halloween. AMA by stevesdemoreels

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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