Short and sweet, we’ve put up the first of some short teasers we shot for one of our four upcoming features, PAIGE & HADLEY’S PROM FROM HELL. Check it out at www.paigeandhadley.com.
Somewhere between John Hughes and John Landis, PROM is the first in a franchise of 80s “punk rock teen romantic slasher comedies” on the Deviant slate.
People keep asking me when we’re shooting this one, but I’ve determined that’s the wrong question. One day it’s a $2M movie, the next an $8M one. For a spell it was possibly 3-D. Exciting names have come and gone and regrouped as we’ve followed her around the world being chased by and chasing money, promises and opportunities.
To date, the script has placed in 13 competitions including Slamdance, PAGE Awards and Scriptapalooza. It also reached finalist status in the Sundance Screenwriters lab. With each new award, new possibilities seem to emerge. But all of the necessary puzzle pieces have not come together just yet.
So, we still don’t know precisely when, where, how, or even if PROM’s our next feature as we have three other projects on similar development rollercoasters of their own (it’s been a wild few months for sure). Such is show biz, eh?
Rest assured, we’re not sitting idle by any stretch. Later this month I am workshopping some scenes with actors at Judith Weston’s fabulous Two Light Studios. We’re tweaking it some more with the fabulous writing mentor Pilar Alessandro . And AFM’s just around the corner, as is the Midwest… (Prague and the U.K. are a bit further, but also in the running. ) Who knows? As long as the momentum keeps steering us on this fun path, what’s the rush? If the journey rocks, the destination’s bound to be awesome too, right? More teasers to come soon…