You can read part 1 of the "Gamers" movie blog by clicking onto
www.gamers-themovie.com
While making an ultra-low-budget indie, every bit of money counts.
You beg for a free camera, little people, and props! However, you always manage to waste money on something lame! Well, at least I did.
In the making of "Gamers" we wasted a bottle of Dom Perignon champagne 1996 I believe.
In the movie there is a scene in the backyard of Gordon's house, (which you can see in the teaser trailer) and he's talking about retiring his DND character and he raises a toast to the crowd. Well, we thought, it would be funny to have the Fernando character pour the expensive bottle of champagne over Gordon's head to celebrate like they won a football game, instead of retiring a 38th level elf!
The only champagne we had in my house was a bottle of 1996 Dom Perignon that I thought would bring good luck to the movie. Everyone told me I was an idiot, and I said screw it! How often do I ever make a 35MM movie? Which, by the way is like never!
Sadly, we were so rushed to shoot 15 scenes a day that we lost lines that John Heard's character was going to say! "Christ, is that’s a thousand dollar bottle of champagne? He's an idiot!"
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msilva1616
18 years ago
Remember, to view the other part of this blog to click onto www.gamers-themovie.com.
And now part 2 -The character of Gordon of what might have been?
The lead role of Gordon was originally offered to actor Jarrad Paul, who is the talented actor who played Adam Rafkin, from the TV show "Action."
No audition needed, the filmmakers were just "huge fans" and wanted to work with him.
However, since the filmmakers behind "Gamers" had no credits and the budget was less than the craft services budget on the movie "Bewitched"
It took over a month to get his agent to take the project serious and not think of them as "stalkers". The casting agent and team had to move on. Auditions were held and the perfect "Gordon" was found and one day after casting Kevin Kirkpatrick, Jarrad's agent called and said he would accept the role.
However, they were a day late.
And since the filmmakers were huge fans of the show "Action" they also contacted Jay Mohr to appear in the film. However, his agent flat out told the team that "Jay's not interested in appearing in a movie, where they pay more money to the camera rental house."
Well, we got the camera donated so he might have a good point.
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