How not to Invest in a Film or Movie
out of film school they automatically broke every rule by believing the first script they write should be made regardless how horrible it is. Now, I am not knocking down film makers, I am just saying its 2009 and you don’t make films that seem to have a subject matter best for a 1992 Chuck Norris meets Jeff Fahey film (If anyone even remembers Jeff Fahey, I’ll owe you something–not sure what)
Anyways, with a B.A. in film and bad script, they did what a lot of first time film makers and producers do. They cast actors that they are fans off, and not actors that can help sell a film.
They also did so without enlisting the help of a foreign sales agent to tell them, okay–if you use these actors, you’ll get so and so dollars from Burma and Ivory Coast.
Worse, the lead actors they used, one of them was a season regular on a cable series with no
