Had to share this.
Adult Swim interviewed The Founders of THE ASYLUM Studios.
Yup, the folks that broughts us TRANSMORPHERS, Snakes On A Train and Almighty Thor explain how its done.
When we asked Rimali and Bales how long it took them to go from saying, "Yeah, we could totally make our own Fast and Furious movie" to that thing actually playing on your TV, the answer was kinda shocking.
"Usually about four months," Bales says. "From the point that we come up with a concept to the film actually being released, it's about four months." They usually have a finished script within 4-6 weeks, and then get going from there. How do they do it so quickly?
"We have a third partner who's – he's not a meth addict, but he does not like to sleep." This dude, apparently, gets people used to working The Asylum Way. "It's about working fast, and working within the restrictions of a limited number of takes. We tend to hire crews including directors and writers, who are just starting out, and they learn to do it at the pace that we require." Which means that they tend to leave the burgeoning auteurs at home, because who needs someone like that around when you're trying to make Titanic 2? "We run into problems when working with people who haven't had the experience of working at the pace we work at, because the average studio film shoots an average of half a page to a page a day. We average 12-15 pages a day."
The movie turned out to be the best-reviewed of all of The Asylum's films – though the home video sales have been kinda sluggish, Bales says. "I'm not sure what to take from that except to avoid quality."
