Cool film coming soon -- Freeborn
Here is the main website:
Freeborn
This is from the "About the Project" page:
In late 2004, during a shoot for a horror film by ReQuest entertainment entitled "They Feed", the producer, Cory Turner, and his associates offered Anthony Brownrigg the opportunity to direct an upcoming low budget werewolf film they had written entitled "Devoured".
Brownrigg looked at the project, and thought that the script needed some work. He already had an idea of what he wanted to see – but thought he would take a different approach. He thought it would be a good idea to get some feedback from 'werewolf fans' before he started work on the script. The people who buy the tickets might have some ideas on what they wanted to see. It might be worthwhile to ask the customer what they wanted.
He put a small message board on the Internet. He titled it "Building the Ultimate Werewolf", and explained on the board what he wanted to do; to get the fans' input, on what they wanted, and didn’t want, in a werewolf movie.
By the second day, the site posted over nine thousand hits. Turner and Brownrigg immediately began to conference; discussing the significance of letting the fans have a voice before scripting began. On the boards, various topics were raised. Topics such as, "How tall is a werewolf", "What kind of fur does a werewolf have?" and "do werewolves have tails?" Due to the fan on-line discussions, the questions continued to get more and more detailed. Ideologies got more intricate, and it became more and more clear that the original script just wasn’t fitting. It didn’t have the scope the fans were looking for.
Brownrigg and Turner decided that an entirely new script was necessary. Brownrigg was already in agreement with what the fans were saying - it was more in keeping with his own vision. So the entire project became the property of Brownrigg, with ReQuest taking a lesser role of Associate Producers.
Over the weeks the fan site became larger. Thousands of hits became millions of hits, from over forty-seven different countries. Brownrigg asked the fans to give themselves a name, and "The Pack" became an entity.
Ohh this looks really good. The trailer is simple but I like the moodiness and the premise. No word on the site as to when the film is due (they say sometime in 2006) but it will be eagerly anticipated by this household.
I for one loved Jack Nicholson's character in
Wolf.
My Father is a
textbook writer and growing up, I had the occasion to meet many people in the publishing business.
Wolf skewers them wonderfully.
Posted by DaveH at June 20, 2005 9:00 PM