Preparations
We had a small cast meeting on Monday to get the script and talk about the movie. Leo, Øyvind, and I were there, as well as Alex, our director/screenwriter, and Paola, Leo’s wife, who happens to be the producer of the movie.
The last movie we did was Comando Zorras (Slut Commando), of course, about a group of strippers who become deadly commandos and rescue a kidnapped little girl from becoming a human sacrifice at the hands of Colombian Satanist drug dealers. For some reason it’s not up on IMDB, I don’t quite know why. It was spectacularly bad, but that’s never stopped IMDB before.
Alex was assistant director on Comando Zorras, and did a heroic job, as far as I could tell. None of that movie’s badness was his fault, it had mostly to do with the script, and an inexperienced director. Anyway, from Alex’ drooling over the casting photos for CZ, I’d already surmised that he was a bit of a pervert. This was roundly and thoroughly confirmed when he handed over the script to the new movie, and started explaining in great detail about the parts he especially liked. Suffice to say, Leo gets to insert foreign objects into some girl’s vagina, I fart on some poor kid’s face, and Øyvind, well, Alex has some weird fixation on Øyvind’s nose (which is, admittedly, quite abundant).
Reading the script, however, it turns out he definitely knows what he’s doing. Apart from the genre conventions, slightly infantile humor, and tons of tits, ass, and sexual innuendo that can be expected from Mexican direct to video exploitation films, it’s structurally quite solid, it flows along nicely, and he has some good ideas, not to mention strong visual sense.
If this doesn’t turn out at least a quite acceptable direct to video production, at least it won’t be Alex’ fault. I’m worried that they somehow seem to think it’s doable to shoot a 1:10 (or so) movie in 14 days, but that’s not really my problem, apart from the getting up early in the mornings and working until late.
It seems Alex got wind of my writing too, so he asked me for feedback and suggestions on the script. I don’t have major problems with it, but I might try to get out of the farting scene. Who knows.
Shooting starts in the first half of November.