DSF got the chance to catch up with
Paul Stapfer , one of the founders of
Terra Bulla Ink...
How did Terra Bulla Ink come
about?
Kyle and I met and worked together at
an ESL institute for several years.
On our breaks we'd hang out and
discovered we had some similar yet
differing interests, like Kyle is a huge
Star Trek (orig. series) geek and [I’m]
big on Star Wars (orig. trig). Having
similar types of humour, we trashed
and glorified our favourite worst
movies and rambled about that type of
jocular nonsense constantly.
Then when the “Jar Jar Abrams”
Star Trek reboot came out in 2009,
we went to see it and I never have
seen Kyle so pissed. He said if they
can do that to the purity that is Star
Trek, then we can do whatever the
hell we want with the ridiculous ideas
that we had been mulling over
We then started putting out ideas on
paper in scenes and such.
That's how "The Shadows of the
Aeons" came about.
It started as a patch work or scenes,
that became a screenplay and it
evolved from there into a novel. Now
we want to bring it into the world.
Tell us about some of the projects
Terra Bulla Ink has been involved
in?
We have written our first novel, "The
Shadows of the Aeons" which we
are currently seeking an editor and
publisher.
We have a seven story series mapped
out for that title, with the sequel
currently in the works.
We have various other stories in stages
of development, from a book of shorts,
another story with a badass militant
Christmas theme and half a dozen
screenplay and spec scripts on the
go. We have also collaborated with the
Late Night at the Plaza folks to
produce a short called "Fowl Play"
which can be found on Vimeo.
How has the filmmaking industry
changed since you first got involved,
and where do you see it going?
Movies, VR and gaming are going to be
organically incorporated into one
another, which we are seeing more and
more
of
today.