After a furious week of work on the script, we are now officially “locked”. For those not familiar with the term, this means that the script has been approved by the director and myself for use as a production script.

From this point, the screenplay can be used to generate a complete shooting schedule among other things. If one were to trace the lineage of every document for every film, it always originates back to the script as the root. That is why it is considered so important. Without a locked script, you have no exact schedule/production board, no list of locations to lock or actors to cast, nothing.

This was, by the way, the 13th draft. Lucky number 13, heheh. I can’t wait to see this thing up on the screen.

The rest of the top-level crew arrives in rapid-fire order this week, including our other great producer and actor, the special f/x maestro, and the hard-working wardrobe and makeup people. They’re hauling a trailer all the way out from L.A. to here in Tennessee. They truly deserve all of the credit we can give them.

Our D.P. drove up from Florida (15 hours!) to get here the other day too. I gotta give our man Irv a lot of props for taking the journey by car to get up here and work with us on this amazing film.

Shooting begins in 12 days, and there’s still a ton of minutiae to take care of before a single camera begins rolling. So, from here forward, until principal photography begins, I will be getting more into the production side and helping the other producers do that thing called producing.

Stay tuned for more…