Monday, November 02, 2009

New Schedule

Link to Earthkiller script. That link should always keep the most updated version of the show. I had to make a change recently -- I realized that the same character at the beginning couldn't be the "half man" in the middle.

I put together a 19-day schedule for Earthkiller.
1. Helen plays all 19 days.
2. Raze plays 10 days.
3. Mach plays 6 days.
4. Tennyson 6 days.
5. Tybalt 4 or 5 days (depending on whether he's actually in the sick bay.)
6. Mina 5 (if she's there in the docking bay, 4 if not.)
7. Carlyle 4.
8. Therin 3 (unless she wants to come back as a zombie.)

Most of the other roles are one or two days. There are 21 listed roles although there are up to nine additional zombies on a given day.

I think I'd like to play multiple days in a row. Like: two days on, two days off, one day on, two days off. We might be able to do that if we shot "2nd shift" -- from 5pm to midnight or some such. That would suck for those people who worked in restaurants but be easier on those who worked during the day.

Well, we sure better like whoever plays Helen! ;-)


Thomas said...

Hey Andrew,

I just read the Earthkiller script (I'm at work, what the hell else am I going to do?) and it pretty well kicks ass. The first 10 or 12 pages were a bit confusing, which I think comes from it being written for the producers who already know what it's about instead of like a spec, but after that it rolled right along.

Only two non-major things bothered me a bit:

1. I assume that Helen appears human since they don't immediately recognize her as an android, so shouldn't at least one of the male soldiers have something totally inappropriate to say about the naked chick?

2. If Helen and Tybalt are both androids, why are the zombies able to kill Tybalt so easily but not Helen?

I'll definitely be following the production of this one.

Oh, yeah, one more question. Why does a head-butt lose you UK distribution? They picky about male to female head-butts?

Andrew Bellware said...

Yes, I obnoxiously un-spec a script and put things in which I suppose I really shouldn't. Because nobody thinks my jokes are funny.

To answer your questions:

1. It sort of amuses me when the men are all just like "yeah, another naked android" and only the women make misogynistic comments.

2. Um. That's a really good question and we're going to have to find an answer for it. Ahem. I'll get right on that.

Ooh -- what if she avoids that first large group of zombies -- they could in fact be the same zombie army which comes back.

As far as I know, the British censors will not allow a motion picture to have a head butt in it. I think that would just mean it'll get cut out.

Thomas said...

1. Yeah, I can see that. Maybe have someone, male or female, say "I've never understood why they put nipples on androids." And that character's name could be Schumacher.

2. Helen kicking zombie army ass doesn't need to be avoided. What if he gets momentarily distracted by the sight of the on-rushing zombies and Helen drives a pipe through his head, which could cause enough short-circuiting for the zombies to finish him off?

Just my 2 cents.

Andrew Bellware said...

I kind of like the stuff they do say, where they have a conversation with her and it's all about the matter at hand and then suddenly they remark "Is that regulation underwear?" or "Aren't you out of uniform?"

I think that when she first sees the room full of zombies she takes one out with her crowbar, makes a snide comment about how she can't deal with all of them, and then does her trick of going straight up into the ceiling. That's how I'm planning to deal with it -- I think it makes a lot of sense in the script and is organic to the story.