Man. Long have I wanted to make a film here. Where I am from.
There are a number of reasons for this, all of which feel pretty right. But man... there are some headaches and lows that come with trying to do this. The people behind the camera are in fairly large abundance around here. Which is great. I love working with people who want to work on something like this... something they can apply their skills on and not be the same stuff they normally do. They get stoked. And I think they should. And the people I speak to I feel very confident in what they can bring.
Someone told me that was the hard part. The behind the camera part. You could always get people to be in front of the camera. No problem. I will have to respectfully disagree with that sentiment. Or maybe it is just not easy to find certain qualities.
Having met with a handful of people, I am very confident that smaller roles will be filled with competent people. I am working on getting the larger roles read for... some are filled, some will be hard going.
But so much of the film hinges on the lead. THE FILM hangs upon the lead. It is about as main character centric as you can get. And no one has come close to matching my vision. I have met with some solid actors, but I don't want to have to compromise so much that it is nowhere near where I wanted it to be.
We will see... shooting here makes me happy... but also can give me large headaches.
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