The past month or so…

We had a Cast and Crew screening of The Continuing and Lamentable Saga Of The Suicide Brothers at MPC and then there was a sort of industry screening at the Soho Hotel. It was a lovely little party, put on by @leithclark at Lula Magazine with the generous sponsorship of Van Cleef & Arpels and Perrier-Jouët. I know, it sounds a little too classy for the likes of us but it was pretty chilled. Like, Rupert wore his Hawaiian shirt….

(Keira Knightley as Fairy)

(Tom Mison as Barath Suicide. Rupert Friend as Bourbon Suicide)

Anyway, it was good to see (and hear) the film on such great screens and to put it in front of an audience. A couple of finishing touches with VFX and it’s ready for festivals etc. –We just found out it has been accepted into the London Film Festival– All those details are still being worked out. The process of putting this film together has been incredible but mostly we are just really glad that it’s finished. The Suicide Brothers site has a making of by Chloe Domont.

Oban turns 1 on Saturday. Wow. She started walking. She just got up and decided to walk down the hallway.

We got our friend and mentor Steven Barron involved in Slingers. He directed a 3 min sizzler for it which is being edited right now. It is such a pleasure to work with Steve again, I can’t tell you how much we learn by watching him. We also learned a lot about Slingers by getting it up on it’s feet like that. It’s going to be fun getting back into developing the pilot and the series. We’ve turned into real fans of this show.

For more updates follow Slingers creator Mike Artherton or Sleepydog. And by the way, if you’re at ComicCon today Steve will be a panelist for the 25th anniversary of TMNT.

(Adrian Bower and director Steve Barron)

(Sean Pertwee as Colonel Hall)

(Adrian Bower as DM and Tom Mison as Frank)

(Margo Stilley as Jeannie)

(Haruka Abe as Marti with Junior as Junior)

Oh, and we have an agent now, Jack Thomas at Independent. He’s a great guy. Plus he knows all the best places in town to eat.

Excited about what happens next month.

Dudes

We’ve been wearing a few different hats lately. There’s the artist’s hat, the director’s hat and more and more the producer’s hat. Now that job is hazardous to your health. You talk on the phone so much that you have to adjust the tumour in your brain to get better reception and you type so many emails that you can no longer grip eating utensils. It’s just fucking crazy. We’d like to raise our glasses to those producers out there who can actually make things happen without hemorrhaging blood. It’s an underrated job

Right now we’re at the ICA having a beer and taking stock. It’s been a big month. We brought Chase Bailey on board The Suicide Brothers who is graciously going to help us take this short film to the finish line. He is a fucking DUDE! Speaking of dudes; Mike is a dude. As if writing a, soon to be, hit TV show isn’t hard enough, he has to wear a few hats himself -ass-hat is not one of them. Our friend and mentor, Steve Barron, is also a dude. It’s way to early to say why but the awesome dial on this TV show we’re working on just got bumped up to “holy shit no way!” (Read on …)

Post On A Train

We’re on a train heading back to London after a weekend with family up in Scotland. Our sister just had a baby and our mum was over from Canada to visit her new (and first) grandson. So it was a perfect opportunity to head up there.

So we have about half an hour or so before the Train gets to London King’s Cross…pretty bored…

Did we mention we were doing some concept stuff at channel 4 this year? Yup.

Ummm. What else. We did a bunch of Bridgestone boards for Daniel Kleinman. Apparently the commercials were used for Superbowl. Wouldn’t it have been great if one of those astronauts ripped the other one’s shirt down to reveal a throwing-star nipple jewel on his nipple?

Anyway, that was a long time ago.

Why is this train going so slow right now?

Now-a-days we are working with Mike and Sleepydog developing some cool ass teeveeeeee. More on that later as this will be an ongoing thing. It’s pretty fun stuff, robots and space ships. Actually we have a meeting with Mike tomorrow at the BFI if this train ever gets there.

Just pulled in at.. where the fuck are we? Stevenage? Bunch of teens on the platform. The place to be, it seems. One of them was flipping our whole train a barrage of double finger salutes, machine gun fuck you style. Ya? Fuck you too punk. Fuck you too. ~\/m m\/~

Let’s seee….That’s it for now.