OK, so we’re almost at cut 4, and I think that might be a picture lock (although we will remain relatively fluid until the Online). Patrick has been fast forwarding through all of the tapes (500+ of them, as you might remember). He’s looking for possible shots that he might have missed. At first I thought this was a big waste of time, but it’s really paying off. The last time he looked at all of the footage was 2 years ago. At that time, we didn’t really have a film. Now we do…we have a context. The bits and pieces he’s extracting from his breakneck revisitation are adding richness to the film.
I’ve been tweaking the voice over, researching rights, and trying not to get overly excited. I have a festival wheel on my fridge. Sometimes I just look at it and dream of that future…that very near future.
We’ve been showing a few people cut 3.2. And, we are getting extremely good feedback. We showed it to MK the other day. He’s Japanese, so I was very keen to get his take on the film. He really liked it, and he thinks that it will have a market in Japan amongst the Japanese. That is fab. I just hope the cowboys are ready for that eventuality.
After this cut, we are going to show it to some really hard critics…just to see if the film and the two of us can stand up to it.
