Switching Tracks

Saturday, 03 January 2009 03:48 John Shea
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Yeah.  The truth is, work on this has completely stopped.  Checking the dates on my files, I can see that exactly one day after I last mentioned this project was the last time I worked on it.  I haven't come up with any excuses for not blogging about it because I just flat out stopped thinking about it at all.  My total effort on the project is 9 pages of script and several pages of notes.  Hopefully I'll get back to it at some point because I do like the idea.

Work stopped because something else came up.  I should probably write about this at some length but for now, the short version is that I've hooked up with someone locally who very much wants to make a low budget movie.  Together we are slowly hashing out a movie that we can shoot for peanuts.  So right now I'm doing a lot of research, assessing what we can use and slowly writing a script.  I have about seven pages of heavily disjointed scenes at this point.  But I'm seriously working on scavenging an earlier incomplete script for parts to use in this one.

Basically, we have a basic idea but no story or characters.  The idea?  Zombies.  The rest?  I don't know yet.  I'm working on it.  Ever since I saw Shaun of the Dead, I've been pretty passionate about wanting to make my own zombie movie.   Which is weird because I'm just not much of a horror guy.  But I do have a great affection for zombie flicks.  And so here we are.  I'll write more later but right now I need to go to bed before my wife gets pissed off at me.