I have a dream,
I'm an action star, making action films that are received well
worldwide, and audiences anticipate my next movie fingers crossed and
gossip heavy. I have a great home life with my wife and kids, and when
I'm not working I'll be traveling the world in search of adventure and
truth and to top it off I'm making movies for a living. Most of my
movies are filled with inspirational stuff, witty one liners and some
kick ass action scenes. People are entertained and I feel at peace. This
is my dream.
But I still have my reality. I have a fulltime job and I am waiting on
an opportunity that will hoist me from being an unknown to being a name,
a myth, and this webseries idea is my first ticket on a long journey.
Time to punch it you can't wait for things to happen, you have to make
things happen!
Parnell Rise is a webseries is designed to show off my skills as a
director/writer/actor and show off some of my signature action I hope to
share. The premise is based in Parnell Auckland, hence the name (some
pics below from preproduction) and is about 2 friends who each have
their own relationships work together as private investigators, but you
dont have to be a detective to figure out theres a spark between them,
The series will take them on a series of small but fun adventures which
will culminate in a decision at the end of the series. I hope you enjoy
it, as its the first of many such projects I have planned.
Below are some photos I have taken while setting the scene of where our
characters work from. As I went to school in the this area, I know a
couple of nice photogenic spots which will be great to shoot at.
The cast is always the important aspect of any series or film, I have
watched alot of television series and sitcoms and casting the right
leads will be important in making the show believable no matter how
outrageous the premise. I'll be playing the male lead, Ken, and I have had trouble casting the girl, I've had 3 pull out for various reasons, studies, work, me being not professional enough, one never even got back to me after applying, but in the end fingers crossed I will be working with someone I have worked with before and she's awesome. I'm just waiting to hear back from her now, I can shoot out of order anyway but Ideally I would have liked to have someone there first. I already have Victoria (Phone call) playing a supporting character who appears in episode 3 plus and a couple other people I've worked with before so this show should be fun to make :)
We begin shooting the first of the episodes next week which introduces
the characters and story. The weather has been crap lately as I wanted
to shoot today but will have to wait til my day off next week and
hopefully the son is shining as its a fight scene I'm shooting with
awesome Taekwondo martial artist Steve Heke (you may remember him from Ambush). I have been watching alot
of funny sitcoms and Hong Kong movies lately so I hope to blend the two
with this series, If you have anything particular you would like to see
in this series, drop me a line :) I will blog as I make this series so
for any budding film makers or fans out there can get an insight in how
to make an awesome web series work, thanks for reading :)
ps. I need a haircut, but I think having longer hair is cooler in fights, maybe more dynamic? we'll find out next week after having shot the showdown between me and Steve's character Barry :)
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