Last Friday the cast and crew of Dirty Red Hands met at Neti's place to watch what Hector's assembled so far. Groovy shit. Hector has taken the material in a VERY Kar Wai Wong direction. I don't personally like Wong that much, but that's because I think he's a suck-ass writer. Seeing as how I know I'm not, I'm extremely interested to see what Hector does with his editing of the rest of the movie. Just to make sure he stays on track I made him promise not to go off the deep end into Maya Deren territory (we aren't making a wine and cheese movie, we're making a popcorn and Guinness movie). I also am trying to force him to watch Performance and
Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages to keep him on track.

During the screening I dumped a new script on the gang. It's a post-modern ghost story I've written called at this point SPIRITEUR (based on a novella I'm also thinking of turning into a podcast). I want to shoot it in the high desert. Really weird, creepy stuff. So far, no one really seems to like it except me. We'll see what the gang's reaction is.

After the screening we went to check out the

HYPERION TAVERN

where I want to have the soft opening of Dirty Red Hands. They seem interested in hosting us on a Friday like the first week of June or so. I'll go back next week with some footage to blow them away and finalize the deal. It'll go great and then I'm also putting together a hard opening later on in the month at this club in downtown. Groovy.

Meanwhile I continue to do Hollywood projects to try to raise the money we need to finish the traditional shoot of RED HANDS. Just finished a treatment with my Hollywood writing partner Bryn Mooser. It was commissioned by Billy Zane and this African prince. This Nollywood crossover project. I'm really happy with what we turned in - it's like Coming to America meets The Blues Brothers, meets Midnight Run. Right. Should find out in a couple of weeks if we're going ahead with it, and if that happens I'll start dumping my salary into RED HANDS, and hopefully SPIRITEUR. As it should be.