MOVIEREVIEWS
LOCKER 13
continued they handled the rewrites based on their notes. In some cases, they rewrote the scripts themselves, in some cases they had the original writers rewrite them and in some cases they hired new writers. They turned out great and now we even have over 90 scripts to move forward with in the future. All scripts have been and will be negotiated as we put more into production. PRODUCTION: How long did Locker 13 take to shoot? Too long. Your film is visually stunning; who was your DP and what sort of equipment did you use (camera, lighting, etc.)? The majority of the film was shot with the RED camera, with each segment having a different Director of Photography. Russell Carpenter agreed to shoot one of the segments when Matthew Mebane came on to direct. Russell won an Oscar for Titanic, so we knew we were in good hands. All the other DP’s that came on worked very hard to maintain that level of professionalism from that
to act as concept for something bigger or even as a sort of back door pilot. You mentioned that there are more writers on the project; how many writers were there? How did the writing process work? Was the script divided into sections or did the writers work together on the entire script? We originally went out for submissions and had over 100 entries including several from the Brothers’ Ink guys and secretly from some of the producers and directors on the film. We had an independent panel of judges rank each script and in the end, it just happened by luck or by the sheer fact that the people closest to the project knew exactly what we wanted and were looking for…that the final 5 chosen for the film were the scripts we ourselves submitted. We then gave the top 5 scripts to the directors to choose from and A break in the shootout scene
Skip (Jason Spisak) and Archie (Jon Gries) day on. We were extremely blessed to have a great cast and crew on this project and everything seemed to fall together piece by piece. Was there anything you had in mind visually that you had to change? Things are always easier when you have a lot of cash. With that said were had nearly ZERO money to work with and I think truly that
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