Fire Assault Productions

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So, ever since Robot Season took like a year and a half to be 6 minutes long, I'd been itching to make something long and larger-scale. I mean, the last time we've successfully done that was Curse of the Wolf, and that was, what, 3-4 years ago? Time for something new.

So, I signed up to take an Independent Study where I'd make a 15-minute movie that I'd write over X-Mas break. I started writing a script about a guy who accidentally dishonors a samurai when he's 5, and the samurai comes to get his vengence when he's in college. There was two problems with this:

The script blew.
We don't actually know any Japanese people, so the samurai would have to be one of us in, you know, ...Japaneseface.

So, somehow, the goofy idea of "me and Eric as bounty hunters" popped into my head, and, since this was far more filmable, we went with it. I proceeded to write a first draft that was deemed either "bad" or "irredeemably bad" by everyone that read it.

So I rewrote. A lot. A whole lot. The main plot changed, subplots came and went. Oh, and check this out: ERIC GRAU wrote some stuff. Yeah. I know. It's got to be good, right? If a man can pull off a fake mustache that well, he can certainly write movies.

And so, I managed to get about 8 minutes of it shot before the quarter ended, at which time I signed up for Topics in Directing and Avery Lee came on as producer. He's a good dude.

And, yeah...everything went well. Acting's the best in anything we've done yet, fake blood looks decent, guns have mussel flashes (!), and all in all, I'm pretty damn proud of the final product. So...yeah. Enjoy.

P.S. This is probably the last "student film" we (or, at least, I) will make, due to my impending graduation, so have fun with it, cause everything after this will be different in some way I couldn't possibly know yet.

P.P.S. Madeline Wager did the black eye make-up. I...forgot to credit her for that in the thing. And if I knew how to type the fact that I'm smiling really big and shrugging in an apologetic way, I would.