THE 11th HOUR
posted by Russell Johnson
Friday afternoon and the movie gets released tomorrow. 500 DVD cases sit awaiting their cargo, and the DVD's sit with Stormtrooper face label waiting to be burned.
Q: "Are you worried?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "Is it going to be a late night?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "Will you get any sleep?"
A: "Probably not."
Q: "Is it always like this?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "Why?"
A: "Who knows and who really cares?"
It'll get done, it always does. Whenever we set a deadline for a films completion we will work until the very final second on it and it doesn't really matter why. If it did we'd never be able to finish a movie. We all have things that have to be done, in our nine to five jobs, our personal lives, and our movie lives. They don't always coincide with one another and usually one suffers as a result of the others at some point or another.
The last movie we had a premiere for was THE MIDNIGHT. It was scheduled to play at 11:00 am on Saturday. Once again, Friday night and I was on the phone with David from around 10:30 pm Friday night until 6:30 am Saturday morning. The final DVD print of the movie was burning at 10 am. The movie played on time. God knows how but it did and that's just the way it goes. Yeah, I get stressed, but I always get stressed. The fact that I'm not bald and gray at this point in my life is a miracle. And the truth is, even though I may outwardly appear to freaking out, inside I know it'll be okay. Actually, I think we work best under the gun. As a matter of fact, we will probably be putting the DVD's in their cases in route to Indianapolis tomorrow morning.
That's the way this project has been from the beginning. It came together quick, it was shot quick, it was edited quick and the effects were done quick. (Believe me, my special effects supervisor made sure I understood that. Jason you're the man!) But even though everything was completed at a break neck pace the final product didn't suffer. All in all, this is probably some of the best work most of us have ever done. And if we could make money of this thing, we'd make more on this than any movie we've done so far, a lot more.
So, you're not going to make a dime and you've done nothing but worry and lose sleep. Stupid huh? Maybe to some people but not to anyone of us who have had even the slightest hand in this movie, or at least as far as I'm concerned. Sure we've lost a lot. Let me rephrase that, not lost, but given a lot, and willing to this project. For everything that we've given we have nothing to do but gain from it. And even if we don't it will have been worth it. It always is. If you don't believe in that then you should never be making movies in the first place.
What, me worry? Only if I wasn't surround by the very best people who have given everything they had to make THE UNKNOWN DISCOVERY the best it could be. If I wasn't, then I really would have something to be worried about.
NEXT UP: CELEBRATION III!
Friday afternoon and the movie gets released tomorrow. 500 DVD cases sit awaiting their cargo, and the DVD's sit with Stormtrooper face label waiting to be burned.
Q: "Are you worried?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "Is it going to be a late night?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "Will you get any sleep?"
A: "Probably not."
Q: "Is it always like this?"
A: "Yes."
Q: "Why?"
A: "Who knows and who really cares?"
It'll get done, it always does. Whenever we set a deadline for a films completion we will work until the very final second on it and it doesn't really matter why. If it did we'd never be able to finish a movie. We all have things that have to be done, in our nine to five jobs, our personal lives, and our movie lives. They don't always coincide with one another and usually one suffers as a result of the others at some point or another.
The last movie we had a premiere for was THE MIDNIGHT. It was scheduled to play at 11:00 am on Saturday. Once again, Friday night and I was on the phone with David from around 10:30 pm Friday night until 6:30 am Saturday morning. The final DVD print of the movie was burning at 10 am. The movie played on time. God knows how but it did and that's just the way it goes. Yeah, I get stressed, but I always get stressed. The fact that I'm not bald and gray at this point in my life is a miracle. And the truth is, even though I may outwardly appear to freaking out, inside I know it'll be okay. Actually, I think we work best under the gun. As a matter of fact, we will probably be putting the DVD's in their cases in route to Indianapolis tomorrow morning.
That's the way this project has been from the beginning. It came together quick, it was shot quick, it was edited quick and the effects were done quick. (Believe me, my special effects supervisor made sure I understood that. Jason you're the man!) But even though everything was completed at a break neck pace the final product didn't suffer. All in all, this is probably some of the best work most of us have ever done. And if we could make money of this thing, we'd make more on this than any movie we've done so far, a lot more.
So, you're not going to make a dime and you've done nothing but worry and lose sleep. Stupid huh? Maybe to some people but not to anyone of us who have had even the slightest hand in this movie, or at least as far as I'm concerned. Sure we've lost a lot. Let me rephrase that, not lost, but given a lot, and willing to this project. For everything that we've given we have nothing to do but gain from it. And even if we don't it will have been worth it. It always is. If you don't believe in that then you should never be making movies in the first place.
What, me worry? Only if I wasn't surround by the very best people who have given everything they had to make THE UNKNOWN DISCOVERY the best it could be. If I wasn't, then I really would have something to be worried about.
NEXT UP: CELEBRATION III!
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