INDUSTRYINSIDER
LOCKER 13
FOR FANS OF THE TWILIGHT ZONE
text and photos provided by Brother’s Ink PREPRODUCTION: When did you release the graphic novel/comic book for Locker 13? Is it available online? Did you publish it? The first graphic novel, Locker 13: Down and Out will be available this fall online at Amazon in digital and print. It’s the first in what will hopefully be a series of comics based on the feature film. Brothers’ Hitchcock Presents, Night Gallery, Tales From the Crypt, Stephen King’s Creepshow and Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories. When did you officially start preproduction on Locker 13? Adam Montierth and I (Donovan) came up with the original idea for Locker 13 in specific actors in mind when you wrote the script? At the Brothers’ Ink Production office, we had a great big white board that we cast the whole film. The 7 Brothers’ Ink guys read all the scripts, put actors pictures for each role on an index card and their name and we would mix and match the cast depending on how well they matched the other actors and who said yes to doing the film. We would approach actors by email, phone or through their agents, anyway to get ahold of them. We pulled in all our favors and kept working that board until we finished the film. It was a fun process and totally flexible based on the director’s vision for each segment and the input of the Brothers’ Ink guys. Who helped you cast the film? We did it all ourselves, the main people involved were the three Executive Producers, John, Adam and I and 2 of our Brothers’ Ink partners Nick Stahr and Jason Walters. Locations, locations, locations! Locker 13 looks like it’s got a ton of great
Ricky Schroedr Behind the Scenes Ink is the publisher. We will also publish a series of short stories from the Locker 13 brand and the first one, Capacity to Kill is available now through Kindle. When 13 are published we will then publish the first set as an anthology in the first volume in hardback and continue that way until several volumes are published. In your kickstarter video you mentioned that Locker 13 was inspired by The Twilight Zone. Did you draw inspiration from any other TV Shows or movies? Twilight Zone would be our main inspiration, but when you see the film, you will agree that we were also inspired by other TV and Movie anthologies. Specifically, Boris Karloff’s Thriller, Alfred
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early 2006, but preproduction didn’t happen until years later. Locker 13 has a ton of great actors. Did you hold auditions for any of the characters or did you already have
Eugene MacClemore (Bart Johnson)