WIRELESS

I haven’t been posting with any regularity lately due to the mammoth pile of work I’ve had to do with the production of Night Has Fallen (not to mention getting ready for the store release and launch in March/April) but I swear, trying to fix that. The Now Playing… feature was supposed to get me posting more often, and it’s worked—twice.

Thought I’d drop a quick update on Wireless and where we are. Because the script was OK’d quite a while ago (I actually finished the fourth draft in November of 2006) we’re not horribly affected by the strike. There were, however, a bunch of other things keeping the project from gaining momentum. For one, the Executive Producer, Ken Nakamura, is also the festival director for the Grand River Film Festival, and he had a lot of obligations there. But now things are full steam ahead, and we’re heading towards an August 11th start date in LA for filming. We’ll be in LA for six weeks then up in Saskatchewan (???) for two more weeks of on location stuff. Sounds like a natural fit, doesn’t it? Right… I was sent a package of pictures to go through last week and pick what I thought best represented my ideas—that was uber cool. I love seeing concept sketches and storyboards and renderings, but nothing beats the real live stuff. If I had a couple seconds to relax and appreciate these things I’m sure I’d be even more excited than I already am.

I’m not really supposed to say too much about casting until things are confirmed—so I won’t—but we’re working on two more fantastic actors that you guys are going to love. Once contracts are confirmed and people are firmly attached I’ll post. However, I thought this was pretty interesting—it’s the wikipedia entry for Jennifer Sciole, attached to star as Stacy Quinn. It’s the first time I’ve seen Wireless up on the net (not sure when it’ll be on IMDB).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_sciole

Oh, and for anyone that cares, here’s the Wireless blurb as it can be found in the back of Night Has Fallen.

One term removed from the Bush administration reckless US foreign policy has caught up with the most powerful nation on earth. International angst has risen to an all-time high. Terrorists have devastated the American intelligence community. The Vice President and other high-ranking officials are dead. With no other option, the President of the United States is forced to turn to a weapon more powerful than anything the world has ever known. A weapon able to infiltrate not only every piece of technological equipment ever built, but the human mind itself. When the group responsible for the destruction of the CIA steals the weapon, the President enlists the scientist who created it to get it back. Together they race against time to uncover a conspiracy that will take the world to the brink of World War III and beyond.

Oh, and one more thing. I heard a story a little while ago about the expression O.K. Supposedly during the American Civil War soldiers would report back to the commanding officers about the damages sustained during battle. When a soldier would report back 0 (ZERO) KILLS, this meant that everything was mighty alrighty. Not sure if this is even close to being true (haven’t looked it up on that glorious sink-hole of popular culture that is Wikipedia) but it sounds good to me.