Project Greenlight

I had been looking foreward to this show for a while now. It should be interesting to see first hand why Dimension Films make such complete dog crap year after year.

I just got through reading the script and it's pretty bad. It's something that could be sort of fun as a straight to dvd release if done right and made with relentless gore, but it's not a good script on any level. I refuse to believe this was the best script that was submitted.

Also, weren't the rules for this contest that the script had to be PG-13 ready? Feast is hard R. Pretty shitty to change the rules midstream and let mediocre thing win.

I would watch this if I actually had Bravo. But alas, my cable company sucks (though slowly improving) and I cannot get a satellite dish. Hell, I don't even have Comedy Central.

You Poor Poor Soul. well don't worry cable is been channels of crap lately, but I know the main channels that I need are: Sci-Fi Channel, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network for some others egh here and there to watch.

It was not so bad back when I didn't have to watch commercials for programs/channels that I don't have on the ones that I do. Oh well, someday I'll get out of this state and not have to worry about it, as well as other more important things.

This looks like its gonna have some major problems.

Should make for great TV.

The director's pretty egotistical for being someone making his first film with no background in the ins and outs of the undustry. Wanting to cast his family members in almost all the roles is a horrible idea, and the fact that he doesn't seem to realize that shows how incompetent he is. Not to mention the rather awesome creature designs that got brought in and the sinking feeling that they're going to be wasted on this guy's hissy fits that his god daughter is one of the best actors on the planet (in a word: yeah right). He doesn't even seem to understand the connotation behind nepotism.

And if next week's episode keeps with what the preview showed, I might not be the only one to see his incompetence. Thinking he can fly to New York and convince Weinstien that an all family cast is the only way to go? Fat chance.

Where can I find the script?

Early Draft here.

Cool, thanks a bunch.

The whole Project Greenlight thing was a mess from the start. Firstly, they specifically said that they wanted horror scripts. I actually entered one of mine. As a result of entering your screenplay, you had to read other submitted screenplays. Holly shit, how many NON-horror scripts did I have to read!?

I contacted Project Greenlight when I came across my first non-horror script and they said that I still had to review it because they were taking ALL submitted scripts. So this tells me that Matt and Ben were using us writers and directors to find something they were looking for. So they got us to do cheap (free) labor.

And for a contest looking for a horror script, why were the other two candidates NON-horror scripts?

Was "Feast" the best horror script in the contest? No. But it was a hell of a lot better than most. I actually got to review "Feast" and gave it rather high marks. Trust me, when you've read a polethera of bad horror, this screenplay was wonderous.

There were two other horror scripts that were what I considered the best. One was "Dust and Bones." This was actually my favorite. Kind of "The Thing" meets "The Old West." I don't even like westerns. The other script was "A Night in Defeat." It was almost simular to "Feast" but it was about bounty hunters tracking down Vampires. Even an Elvis impersonater gets involved. Reminded me of "From Dusk Til Dawn" but with more comedy.

I for one am glad that the Dimension suites forced them to choose "Feast." And I'm also glad they picked John as the director. Is the guy weird? Sure! Does that mean he won't get the job done? No. How many movies do we go see just because so and so directed it? 98% of the time I don't care who directed it.

Nevertheless,it looks to be a fun ride. Can't wait to see who they actually cast. I do like John's brother, not nessisarily for beer guy, but one of the other parts for sure. Oh well.

with the direct or i can kinda see his point. if i have been making home movies with the family i would try to get them placed into any and all roles that i could. i think that it would be easler to get them to do what you need them to do and you know what they are capiable of doing. but if john was smart what he would have done was stepped up and said" look cast them in these roles and you only have to pay them this amount of money." they could work for a smaller amount and save all that money on the budget. but it seems like no one is thinking that way
yes they have wes craven but that really doesn't mean anything becase all you have to do is watch "wes craven prestents dracula" and see that just becuase his name is on something doesn't mean it is good

Actually, most of the films I watch or purchase blindly are based on who directed them, or to a lesser extent, who the screenwriter is. I'd bet that a large majority of people here do exactly what you say no one does.

As to the director dude, I thought that Chris was going to shitcan him right there. That's some pretty big balls to suggest that a no-one like him was going to barg his way into the Weinstien offices and convince them that they should hire his relatives. That's kinda nutso for a guy who has no power in the movie industry.

Heads up to anyone interested, the show's been moved to Thursdays at 10pm.

why do they keep changing the date and time that the show is on? that is very annoying

I've heard they're in the toilet compared to last year, but I don't have exact figures (or even inexact ones).

yeah things are looking like "Feast" might wind-up being something of a clusterf*ck. The movie might be bad, but like any good clusterf*ck, it'll produce hours of amusing television.

I guess y'all didn't know there was another, more active thread for this in the TELEVISION forum:
http://chud.com/forums/showthread.php?t=78779

Wes Craven needs to stop acting like he knows how to make a good movie. He doesn't.

Chris Moore is an asshole.

Show is very engrossing.