In advance of April 23rd, 2011, debut of Syfy Original Film Roadkill, Dread Central had an opportunity to chat with screenwriter Rick Suvalle about his approach to this project and how he managed to make it slightly different than the average Syfy Original entry.
I can tell you from personal experience writing a Syfy Original Film is not easy. You know going in budgets are thin (transparent even), the special effects aren’t going to be very good, and casting is always a game of Russian roulette with four bullets in the cylinder. So, as a writer, you have to try and compensate for all of those hazards up front: use modest locations, limit special effects screen time, and include no complex dialogue or characters which require too much acting muscle. Yet, you still have to deliver the goods and tell a compelling, visually interesting story even though you don’t...
I can tell you from personal experience writing a Syfy Original Film is not easy. You know going in budgets are thin (transparent even), the special effects aren’t going to be very good, and casting is always a game of Russian roulette with four bullets in the cylinder. So, as a writer, you have to try and compensate for all of those hazards up front: use modest locations, limit special effects screen time, and include no complex dialogue or characters which require too much acting muscle. Yet, you still have to deliver the goods and tell a compelling, visually interesting story even though you don’t...
- 4/20/2011
- by Raider Redux
- DreadCentral.com
Overture Films is partnering with Echo Lake Prods. to produce 105 Degrees and Rising, a film set against the backdrop of the fall of Saigon in 1975.
Jon Amiel (Copycat, Entrapment) is attached to direct from a script by William M. Akers.
The story weaves together several arcs as the characters struggle to escape South Vietnam during the final days of the U.S. control over the former capital city, culminating with the dramatic evacuation of the last Americans and many South Vietnamese via helicopter from the roof of the American embassy.
The film's title is based on a secret code broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. The announcement that "the temperature is 105 degrees and rising," followed by eight bars of Bing Crosby's White Christmas, meant all U.S. citizens should immediately evacuate Saigon.
There is no cast attached yet.
Echo Lake's Doug Mankoff, Mike Marcus and Andy Spaulding are producing alongside Rob Cowan. Echo Lake developed the project with Amiel and brought it to Overture, where it is the first production to be developed by the new company under the leadership of Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett.
Jon Amiel (Copycat, Entrapment) is attached to direct from a script by William M. Akers.
The story weaves together several arcs as the characters struggle to escape South Vietnam during the final days of the U.S. control over the former capital city, culminating with the dramatic evacuation of the last Americans and many South Vietnamese via helicopter from the roof of the American embassy.
The film's title is based on a secret code broadcast on Armed Forces Radio. The announcement that "the temperature is 105 degrees and rising," followed by eight bars of Bing Crosby's White Christmas, meant all U.S. citizens should immediately evacuate Saigon.
There is no cast attached yet.
Echo Lake's Doug Mankoff, Mike Marcus and Andy Spaulding are producing alongside Rob Cowan. Echo Lake developed the project with Amiel and brought it to Overture, where it is the first production to be developed by the new company under the leadership of Chris McGurk and Danny Rosett.
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