December 10, 2005
Feast trailer online
I've never seen the series Project Greenlight, but I'm told it's good, and one good thing may have come out of it in the form of the horror movie with a funny side, Feast.
Cinematical have the write up:
What's interesting about the trailer is that, halfway through, they actually rip on Project Greenlight by referring to Feast as the one Greenlight film that doesn't suck. I'll be curious to see if this kind of edgy advertising actually works for them.Feast tells a sort of generic horror story about a bunch of people who get stuck in a bar while monsters are attacking them. Supposedly, the great thing about this film, however, is that it doesn't take itself seriously.
After checking the very small and dark trailer [site removed at request of site owner - Richard], I'm actually quite interested to find out more. Anyone shed more information on this one?
Update - 04/02/2006
By request (see below) we've been asked to remove the link to the site and where the trailer was. Seems some socially inept people have been hassling the site owner for the trailer when it was removed some time ago. Of course, he could have put up a notice for you all to say, but never mind.
The trailer is gone...perhaps it created enough buzz for them and they removed it. We'll have to wait until the interest drops and they need to boost it again, then we'll see the trailer pop-up elsewhere!
Posted by at December 10, 2005 12:52 PM
Comments
Posted by: darren seeley at December 10, 2005 11:42 PM
Oh, why "Feast"?
Well, the last contest shifted focus towards more genre, as PGL folks thought that
1) Some genre scripts were not taken seriously as 'dramas';
2) Indie horror/sci fi pix made on the cheap have been successful in recent years (Open Water, 28 Days Later)
3) They need to make a quick turnaround profit, which 'Stolen Summer' and 'Battle Of Shaker Heights" did not do.
Posted by: darren seeley at December 10, 2005 11:48 PM
hi.
this is rachel. i work for
judah friedlander, one of the actors from "Feast".
i dig your site.
but i was wondering if you could take the link to judah's site (
judahfriedlander.com) for the "Feast" trailer off - because his site does
not have the "feast" trailer on it. it
was only up for about 48 hours 3 months ago. judah still get emails from
some
pretty pissed off dudes 'cause they go to his site expecting the trailer and
then can't find it.
thanks. let me know if it's not a hassle for you to do that.
any questions, feel free to email me back. or you can contact judah
directly at [email protected]
take it easy.
rachel
Posted by: Rachel at February 4, 2006 04:25 PM
Hey Rachel. Are the hits of the people complaining coming from this site?
Just to make sure you know, we have no control over what people say or do, so if they're giving him a hard time well that's just their poor social skills, nothing to do with us.
I will remove the link though as the trailer is no longer there.
Posted by: Richard Brunton at February 4, 2006 05:48 PM
You were 'told' the PGL series was good?
Hmmm...
Well, the biggest problem the PGL series had was the 'reality show' mentality, where I think the talent involved are not being chosen for 'talent' per se, but rather how can they be exploited and what gives the show ratings.
Having participated in the contest at least twice, I'll say some peer feedback was fine, but you run risk of low reads (writers are 'assigned" them) and torpedeos. The show in the end it's not a reality show based on filmmaking. It's all about film interference and looking over one's shoulder. "Feast" claims to have bucked the system. Maybe they did.
But the best film put out by PGL/Liveplanet to date didn't win the 'contest', but was a favorite script with Chris Moore, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. It was made, it was called "speakeasy"
http://www.answers.com/topic/speakeasy-movie
More on PGL:
http://projectgreenlight.liveplanet.com/