1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Let's talk about a movie that's going to be filmed 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,080 Speaker 1: around Port Adelaide. And if you know of a movie 3 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: called Drop Bears, a drop Bear singular Project Great White 4 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:16,560 Speaker 1: is on its way. Let's find out. Producer John the 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:18,520 Speaker 1: co is on the not on the line, he's he 6 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:20,800 Speaker 1: in the studio. John, good evening. Thanks for having me, Matt, 7 00:00:20,880 --> 00:00:24,520 Speaker 1: thanks for coming in. So tell me about Project Great White. 8 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: So it's a bit of a pseudo follow up to 9 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: Drop Bear follow up, but he will be able to 10 00:00:29,560 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 2: watch it without. 11 00:00:30,360 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 3: Having seen Drop there. 12 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:37,199 Speaker 2: So it's a a broke a broke influencer, a washed 13 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,400 Speaker 2: up movie star come over from America with a kind 14 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,760 Speaker 2: of shunky producer and they come here to shoot a 15 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 2: reality TV show with a grumpy old news cameraman and 16 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 2: a poor, unfortunate young journalist producer and unproknownst to them, 17 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:54,120 Speaker 2: the government's been doing a scientific experience on great white 18 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:55,000 Speaker 2: sharks right. 19 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 3: Among other Australian animals. 20 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: And I slapped a laser men on its head and 21 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 2: gave some super soldier see them, and mayhem happens from there. 22 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: Excellent, how do you do this around the port? How 23 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:07,840 Speaker 1: are you going to create the shark? 24 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 2: So but kind of the backstory was we did Drop 25 00:01:12,360 --> 00:01:14,480 Speaker 2: There for I TN from the US, and they were 26 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:16,480 Speaker 2: really they were thrilled with it and again in like 27 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:19,600 Speaker 2: great reviews because it's a satire B movie that makes 28 00:01:19,600 --> 00:01:21,640 Speaker 2: the fun of B movies well been a love letter 29 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:24,920 Speaker 2: of B movies. And they wanted to follow up, but 30 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 2: they wanted a shark movie. And initially I was like, 31 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:29,280 Speaker 2: I don't want to do a shark it doesn't really 32 00:01:29,319 --> 00:01:31,720 Speaker 2: interest me. And I was I pitched them about four 33 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 2: different ideas and They're. 34 00:01:32,600 --> 00:01:35,559 Speaker 3: Like, no, we want a shark movie. And I'm like, okay, 35 00:01:36,520 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 3: I no, yeah, so write. 36 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:42,080 Speaker 2: I'm the writer as well, so I was like I 37 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:43,520 Speaker 2: don't want to do a shark movie and they're like, no, 38 00:01:43,560 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 2: we want a shark movies. I was like, okay, and 39 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: drop their we'd finished Drop Beare and. 40 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:47,800 Speaker 3: We were happy with it. 41 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 2: And that sets up a bigger universe of scientific experiments 42 00:01:51,360 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 2: in Australian animals. And I think I was in the 43 00:01:53,800 --> 00:01:55,920 Speaker 2: shower and I was like, I gotta come up with 44 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,000 Speaker 2: a shark idea. And then I was like shooting on 45 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: the water a I get C six, So I don't 46 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:02,000 Speaker 2: want to be on the boat and be shooting on 47 00:02:02,040 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 2: the water. 48 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 3: Is expensive because it's dangerous X y Z. 49 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 2: And I was like, well, we can't actually shoot on 50 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:09,680 Speaker 2: the water here in say at the moment properly because 51 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:12,480 Speaker 2: so I was like, well, what if the shark grows 52 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 2: legs and turns it into a term like a kind 53 00:02:14,760 --> 00:02:16,960 Speaker 2: of predator movie. So I was like, well, get the 54 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:18,079 Speaker 2: shark out of the water and we don't have to 55 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:19,480 Speaker 2: worry about any of that. So then I was like, oh, 56 00:02:19,520 --> 00:02:21,800 Speaker 2: I'm more interested in that idea. So that's kind of 57 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:24,200 Speaker 2: where that kind of gem, that kind of germ of 58 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,240 Speaker 2: an idea from. 59 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 1: So this shark is going to be terrorizing the streets 60 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: of Port Adelaide and poor innocence walking along Saint Vincent Street. 61 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:32,880 Speaker 3: I think we're going to be at larks or before. 62 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:35,320 Speaker 2: We're going to figure out which which area is going 63 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,240 Speaker 2: to be more accommodating to our y Shenanigans. 64 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 1: Okay, all right, when's filming start? 65 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:42,679 Speaker 3: So we start mid March, so coming out pretty quick, 66 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:43,440 Speaker 3: You've got. 67 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:45,960 Speaker 1: To make some decisions. How long is the film? 68 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:49,240 Speaker 3: So it has it has to be at least over 69 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 3: eighty minutes. Drop out was about eighty six minutes, so 70 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 3: we trying to hit the same amounts. 71 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:56,239 Speaker 1: Right, tell me about drop Beer. So obviously this is 72 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,560 Speaker 1: a rogue koala that's been experimented on and falls out 73 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: the trees people. 74 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 2: Yeah, so drop There is about four US tourist paid 75 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,560 Speaker 2: on a schunky tour with a chunky tour guide called 76 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 2: Steve Irwing the Crocodile Punter, and he's drunk mate Bazar 77 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:19,520 Speaker 2: and they no kind of got around that, and well 78 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:22,959 Speaker 2: the character in the movie's borderline crossing over copyright issues 79 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 2: and they go on a chunky tour with his tour 80 00:03:26,040 --> 00:03:28,519 Speaker 2: guides and then all help breaks least when they run 81 00:03:28,560 --> 00:03:31,679 Speaker 2: into seven foot Koala King mutated Koala King and his 82 00:03:31,800 --> 00:03:33,640 Speaker 2: horde of calamity arranged. 83 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:37,600 Speaker 1: Excellent, all right, So that's enough of a picture. There 84 00:03:37,680 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: is this available on YouTube or somehow it's available. 85 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:44,040 Speaker 2: It's available internationally on to B and Amazon, going to 86 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:47,200 Speaker 2: We're having a screening next Wednesday night at the Piccadilly 87 00:03:47,320 --> 00:03:50,200 Speaker 2: excellent at seven o'clock, so with a Q and A 88 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:52,360 Speaker 2: with a cartonker after that, and then we've got home 89 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,200 Speaker 2: media released as well as streaming in the next couple 90 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:54,440 Speaker 2: of months. 91 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,400 Speaker 1: So imagine a bit of a fundraise of what you're doing. 92 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, so it allows us to keep making these movies 93 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:02,240 Speaker 2: because the studio funds a vast majority of the film, 94 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 2: but it allows us to do some more, put some 95 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 2: of our own money into it, especially because we had 96 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 2: the Australian rights. 97 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 1: Okay, the studio, who's the studio. 98 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:13,160 Speaker 2: So it's a studio that does a lot of B 99 00:04:13,320 --> 00:04:16,560 Speaker 2: movies out of America and they it was an interesting story. 100 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:19,640 Speaker 2: I kind of reached There was a producer from the 101 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:20,880 Speaker 2: Asylum that came over for. 102 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:23,280 Speaker 3: Anthony Thrift in. 103 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:27,960 Speaker 2: It's Sandy Cameron's great documentarial Mockbuster, which is getting a 104 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:30,880 Speaker 2: release soon and I saw it at the festival, was great, 105 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,760 Speaker 2: can't speak more highly of it. Met him and he 106 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,680 Speaker 2: just come off a Mickey Mouse horror film off the 107 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: UK and asked him about it and he's like, yeah, 108 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:45,719 Speaker 2: it's the it. They fund a bunch like fun, low budget, 109 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,320 Speaker 2: micro budget films and they just give filmmakers a shot 110 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:49,279 Speaker 2: and see. 111 00:04:49,080 --> 00:04:49,719 Speaker 3: What came out of it. 112 00:04:49,760 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, I'll reach out to him, 113 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 2: and so I reached out to him, sent Stewart an email, 114 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:56,479 Speaker 2: didn't hear anything back, and then I c seated the 115 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:59,360 Speaker 2: production manager Nicole, and I still didn't hear anything, and 116 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: I was like, I really want to make this work. 117 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,360 Speaker 2: And I was like, well, us Australians are so hesitant 118 00:05:04,400 --> 00:05:06,000 Speaker 2: to put ourselves out there. And I was like, well, 119 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:08,880 Speaker 2: they're American, so I'll just do something American. And I 120 00:05:08,880 --> 00:05:11,000 Speaker 2: put a calendar invite for the next Tuesday and said 121 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:13,479 Speaker 2: I'll meet I'll talk to you then. And I was like, 122 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:15,880 Speaker 2: they're now going to reply. And then Nicole Wroe back 123 00:05:15,880 --> 00:05:18,040 Speaker 2: will took to you then. And it was the weirdest 124 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 2: fifteen minutes in my career. I get on this phone 125 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:23,720 Speaker 2: call with Stuart was video call and he's just got 126 00:05:23,760 --> 00:05:26,120 Speaker 2: back from a Berlin film. First he's like, oh, because 127 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:28,479 Speaker 2: I sent the pitch for dropping and he's like, Keller cowhile, 128 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 2: that sounds good. Frank the lawyer saw it out the 129 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,800 Speaker 2: contract and four weeks later we're making the movie. 130 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 1: Wow. You mentioned to be as a streaming source and 131 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 1: two b's free and it's on my TV. I've watched 132 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,520 Speaker 1: a lot. There's a lot of B grade. Yes, old 133 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,120 Speaker 1: stuff and even modern stuff on there. So is that 134 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:46,600 Speaker 1: the sort of thing. 135 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:47,280 Speaker 3: That's the sort of thing. 136 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: But it's interesting to be here in Australia, hasn't really 137 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 2: like opened up like it has an American. In America, 138 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:55,320 Speaker 2: it's one of the biggest streaming players really because it's 139 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: it's right, well, essentially, what to B is is pre 140 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,040 Speaker 2: to a television in America this point, because it's if 141 00:06:02,080 --> 00:06:04,520 Speaker 2: you jump on a VPN and you change it over 142 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 2: to two b's America. So it's live television sports. They've 143 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 2: got the NFL and a whole bunch of rights. It's 144 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 2: actually owned by the Murdock guys. They owned part of it. 145 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 3: And yeah, it's huge in America. It's quite small here 146 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:19,160 Speaker 3: in America, it's massive. 147 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:21,800 Speaker 1: I've watched some excellent movies, some not so excellent, but 148 00:06:21,920 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 1: some excellent movies. 149 00:06:23,240 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 2: That's where kind of a few of the inspirations of 150 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:28,520 Speaker 2: some of the ideas come from. 151 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:31,440 Speaker 1: And that's all on to B all right, talking about 152 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,880 Speaker 1: shock horror flicks, and you'd be well up on this. 153 00:06:33,960 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: I imagine John, where copyrights are expiring for traditional movie. 154 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 1: I'm thinking Winnie the Pooh and there's a horror movie 155 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:42,120 Speaker 1: of Winnie the Pooh that somebody has made. 156 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:46,760 Speaker 2: Well this funny enough, this same studio made yeah, yeah, 157 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 2: out of the UK. So yeah, it's become a big 158 00:06:49,520 --> 00:06:53,400 Speaker 2: thing with public domain ipe. Now this hitting the public 159 00:06:53,400 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 2: domain as we come with this big trend over the 160 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 2: last five years of using I think it might be 161 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 2: dying out at this point, but it's yeah, I think 162 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:02,920 Speaker 2: there's still stuff to be mine that could be quite interesting. 163 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,560 Speaker 1: All right, let's come back to the Killer Shark project. 164 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,679 Speaker 1: Great White. So shooting starts in March. 165 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:13,000 Speaker 2: How long do you expect, Well, normally shoot these in 166 00:07:13,040 --> 00:07:14,760 Speaker 2: about two and a half weeks, so it's really you 167 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: turn around, yeah, to get a minute film. 168 00:07:16,880 --> 00:07:17,800 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a but. 169 00:07:18,680 --> 00:07:20,400 Speaker 2: With a crew that we have and the way that 170 00:07:20,440 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 2: we shoot it, it's quite efficient and we're kind of 171 00:07:23,560 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 2: a bit of a world or a machine at this 172 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:26,679 Speaker 2: point after years of working together. 173 00:07:27,320 --> 00:07:28,440 Speaker 1: So what else have you guys done? 174 00:07:28,560 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 2: So we did drop there and then we did a 175 00:07:30,400 --> 00:07:35,920 Speaker 2: number of short films, one about called Out the Mercy 176 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:37,920 Speaker 2: about drought out in the country that was supported by 177 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 2: Country Arts, and another one by Country Arts. But then 178 00:07:39,880 --> 00:07:42,200 Speaker 2: we did a documentary about Locks and Basketball Club, which 179 00:07:42,200 --> 00:07:45,480 Speaker 2: is going to be released on SBS soon on demand, 180 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 2: about the history their seventy fifth anniversary and the crazy 181 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 2: history of Locks and Basketball Club is like one of 182 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:55,520 Speaker 2: the first basketall clubs in the country, in the state. 183 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:01,040 Speaker 3: They essentially for the first couple of years. There was a. 184 00:08:01,000 --> 00:08:04,440 Speaker 2: Magazine a guy up there had and another bloke were 185 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,360 Speaker 2: reading through and it was just a picture of one 186 00:08:06,400 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 2: of the guys in the NBA shooting in America the 187 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:11,080 Speaker 2: basketball and I had no idea what the rules were, 188 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 2: and they're like, we should play that. So they got 189 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:14,840 Speaker 2: the Network court at the old show Hall, which is 190 00:08:14,840 --> 00:08:17,560 Speaker 2: like half cement half wooden flats, and they just made 191 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 2: up the rules until somebody at West Adelaide sent them 192 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 2: in the rule book and they were like, oh cool, 193 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 2: and yeah. 194 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,800 Speaker 3: That's how crazy that that was. 195 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 2: So I made that docco for the seventieth fifth, which 196 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:33,120 Speaker 2: was twenty nineteen, I think twenty twenty, so yeah, that 197 00:08:33,160 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 2: would have been ninety fifties, yeah, forties, and yeah, it's 198 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:38,920 Speaker 2: an incredible story across those decades. 199 00:08:39,640 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 3: So yeah, that'll be on SBS soon. 200 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: Okay, that'll be interesting to see Loxton Basketball club first 201 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:46,280 Speaker 1: in Australia. 202 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 3: You Reckon first, one of the first in South Australia. 203 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:49,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, goodness. 204 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 3: Obviously West Adelaide was already playing, but yeah. 205 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,360 Speaker 1: All right, so now what do you have in the 206 00:08:55,360 --> 00:08:57,119 Speaker 1: pipeline for next. 207 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,319 Speaker 2: Yeah, so we optioned the rights to a local novel 208 00:08:59,559 --> 00:09:04,680 Speaker 2: by author by called Matt Pike, and he's it's a 209 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:09,400 Speaker 2: sci fi action comedy and it's one that we're starting 210 00:09:09,440 --> 00:09:12,079 Speaker 2: to develop and hopefully there'll be the next step step 211 00:09:12,160 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 2: up from something like these B movies to be more 212 00:09:15,040 --> 00:09:18,320 Speaker 2: serious really but still that comedy element. 213 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:21,400 Speaker 1: Okay, be has to have comedy, doesn't It has to 214 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:23,120 Speaker 1: have shock and shlock. 215 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 2: Well that's the thing with the drop Bear movie. It 216 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,240 Speaker 2: was like for years, a lot of people have been 217 00:09:27,240 --> 00:09:28,800 Speaker 2: trying to make drop Bear movies. There was one made 218 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 2: a few years back here in Essay that was pretty good, 219 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,880 Speaker 2: but it was a thriller, like straight thriller, right, And 220 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:34,839 Speaker 2: when I was I've been over the years mulling over 221 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:36,480 Speaker 2: the drop Bear idea, and I was like, it has 222 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,720 Speaker 2: to be comedy. It has the whole thing's a joke. 223 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:41,880 Speaker 2: In the first instance, we've play on tourists, so it 224 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,200 Speaker 2: had to be based in that kind of comedy genre. 225 00:09:44,400 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 2: And also what we did would drop there that it's 226 00:09:47,320 --> 00:09:50,000 Speaker 2: been interesting and it's been a joy reading reviews is 227 00:09:50,040 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 2: that there's it was done intentionally shock shlocky and with 228 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 2: problems with the suits and that kind of thing was 229 00:09:56,840 --> 00:09:58,400 Speaker 2: part of the charm and part of the joke because 230 00:09:58,400 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 2: it was a satire about B movies because there's been 231 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:03,560 Speaker 2: this big culture around boom movies and it's become this 232 00:10:03,640 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 2: kind of weird thing where online there's like B movie 233 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 2: reviewers and this whole be culture and it's become like 234 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:16,800 Speaker 2: incredibly pretentious and like people arguing about what makes a 235 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:19,439 Speaker 2: bad movie good or good movie bad kind of thing, 236 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:21,679 Speaker 2: and we kind of set out to kind of take 237 00:10:21,720 --> 00:10:23,560 Speaker 2: the piss out of that as well as the whole 238 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,520 Speaker 2: general thing. So yeah, it's been quite a fun journey 239 00:10:27,559 --> 00:10:31,000 Speaker 2: watching something like people get that satire and been like, oh, 240 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:32,880 Speaker 2: they're just taking the piss out of the whole thing, 241 00:10:33,520 --> 00:10:37,120 Speaker 2: to people being completely missing the point, and that's amusing 242 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,440 Speaker 2: and enjoyable and self So we can't kind of lose 243 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:40,679 Speaker 2: this point with this movie. 244 00:10:40,880 --> 00:10:43,560 Speaker 1: So, Okay, there's a few of you involved here. You know, 245 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: you're writer, director, there's a producer, there's there's actors and 246 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: everything else. Do you make enough out of this one? 247 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:49,080 Speaker 1: You've got a family to feed? 248 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 2: Yeah, well this this is kind of a stepping stone. 249 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:54,199 Speaker 2: So I run a corporate video production company and a 250 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 2: couple other things, but this builds on top of the 251 00:10:56,640 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 2: next thing. So yeah, everybody on the project is paid 252 00:10:59,320 --> 00:11:01,000 Speaker 2: not a huge amount of but we get to hold 253 00:11:01,000 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 2: the back end rights for the theatrical and home media 254 00:11:03,600 --> 00:11:05,080 Speaker 2: here in Australia, so we do make a little bit 255 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:05,360 Speaker 2: off it. 256 00:11:05,440 --> 00:11:07,679 Speaker 3: But yeah, it's getting that all right. 257 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,200 Speaker 1: That's that's fantastic. This is how it's done. This is 258 00:11:10,240 --> 00:11:12,559 Speaker 1: you know, for anyone listening out there, this is you know, 259 00:11:12,760 --> 00:11:15,280 Speaker 1: almost a startup. You're on your way and who knows 260 00:11:15,320 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 1: where it's going to end. 261 00:11:16,480 --> 00:11:17,120 Speaker 3: We're getting there. 262 00:11:17,160 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 2: And I think the fact that I think Essay is 263 00:11:21,480 --> 00:11:24,440 Speaker 2: lagging behind the rest of the country, especially with film production. 264 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:26,360 Speaker 2: At the moment where you're looking at the Eastern States, 265 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 2: we're making close to a billion dollars of expaniture in 266 00:11:29,920 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 2: each of those states and we're only less than a 267 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:35,920 Speaker 2: hundred million. And with WA's Studios coming online next this year, 268 00:11:36,440 --> 00:11:39,640 Speaker 2: I'm kind of concerned around where we are in the country. 269 00:11:40,240 --> 00:11:43,439 Speaker 2: There's a lot of production seeking space that they can't get, 270 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,760 Speaker 2: and I think that there's a huge opportunity that's kind 271 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:48,600 Speaker 2: of been missed because film and to itself kind of 272 00:11:48,640 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 2: seems like it doesn't really spend a lot of money locally. 273 00:11:52,280 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: The kind of opinion is it goes off elsewhere, but 274 00:11:56,120 --> 00:11:59,080 Speaker 2: film spends six percent of its budget locally wherever it is, 275 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 2: straight up in the first couple of weeks, because you 276 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 2: pay for accommodation, travel, food, building, costs everything in the 277 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 2: local crew. And I think that the film industry has 278 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,160 Speaker 2: huge potential, especially here in Essay, and we need to 279 00:12:11,160 --> 00:12:14,160 Speaker 2: really start putting some more investment into it and focus 280 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:16,680 Speaker 2: into it, because I think it's a pretty easy quick 281 00:12:16,720 --> 00:12:19,840 Speaker 2: win for the economy here in Essay, especially when we're 282 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,440 Speaker 2: kind of in this weird transition point of interesting. 283 00:12:23,040 --> 00:12:26,920 Speaker 1: I'm just thinking about a potential location and surely the 284 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:30,480 Speaker 1: lugs per hotel lens itself doesn't can imagine the shark 285 00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,040 Speaker 1: chasing somebody across those ballustrade ball. 286 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:36,959 Speaker 2: I'm chatting with the council and trying to trying to 287 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: get lags over the lines. 288 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:41,000 Speaker 1: You'd have to have the road Jetty road closed off, 289 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: I imagine, and whatever else we're. 290 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:46,240 Speaker 2: Hoping the put out an end of field. Council has 291 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 2: been supporting us over the last few years. It's kind 292 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 2: of been fantastic, So yeah, we're hoping they'll be able 293 00:12:50,360 --> 00:12:51,040 Speaker 2: to help us out with. 294 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:54,160 Speaker 1: Us someone being grabbed by the shark of the lugs Jetty. 295 00:12:54,200 --> 00:12:55,560 Speaker 1: I mean, you can just see it, can't you. 296 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:57,360 Speaker 2: Just well, we've slipped the laser beam on its head, 297 00:12:57,360 --> 00:12:59,320 Speaker 2: so that part of the fun is going to be 298 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:02,840 Speaker 2: people getting cut up with a laser beer and kind 299 00:13:02,880 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 2: of playing on that whole shark cliches is the aim 300 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:06,880 Speaker 2: of the game. 301 00:13:06,960 --> 00:13:08,920 Speaker 1: The Shark's being done to dumb and jaws led the 302 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: way Shark Nado sharks on a plane. 303 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 2: That's why I didn't want to do a shark essentially, 304 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:16,760 Speaker 2: and I was like, well, everything's been done, and I'm like, well, 305 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 2: drop their work being a piss take of every other 306 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,040 Speaker 2: like kind of Preacher horror movie. And I was like, well, 307 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:25,760 Speaker 2: let's play into that whole shark thing, and like, let's 308 00:13:25,920 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 2: lean into cliche. The shark's got a laser beam, making 309 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 2: this silly stuff, and really kind of like play that 310 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,200 Speaker 2: comedy for the satire of that kind of thing, not 311 00:13:36,240 --> 00:13:37,320 Speaker 2: take itself too seriously. 312 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 1: Absolutely well, neither should should any of this, because I 313 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:43,319 Speaker 1: mean it's great, as you say, great for the economy 314 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:44,959 Speaker 1: and all of that. How many people, So if you're 315 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:47,440 Speaker 1: shooting in Jetty Road in Lugs in a couple of 316 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:50,240 Speaker 1: miles and a month from now, just over, so you'd 317 00:13:50,280 --> 00:13:57,320 Speaker 1: have obviously a cast, director, producer, boom, operators, camos, yep, 318 00:13:57,480 --> 00:13:59,920 Speaker 1: and a whole heap what thirty forty people on? 319 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: Yeah, normally about twenty to thirty people make cast, Yeah, 320 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:05,480 Speaker 2: make up all of that, all that kind of stuff, 321 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,079 Speaker 2: all the prospers and stuff in the costumes. 322 00:14:08,120 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 1: Boo. 323 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,439 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a it's a it's an organized chaos is 324 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,800 Speaker 2: the best way to put film together, Like, the best 325 00:14:14,800 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 2: way to describe filmmaking is organized chaos. And sometimes that's 326 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,880 Speaker 2: where some of the best stuff comes from, is having 327 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,320 Speaker 2: everything organized but having enough leeway that if something happens, 328 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,000 Speaker 2: you can adjust and use that to your advantage. 329 00:14:25,040 --> 00:14:27,760 Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, I love it. Well, good luck with it, Johan. 330 00:14:27,880 --> 00:14:29,960 Speaker 1: It's it's going to be wonderful and can't wait to 331 00:14:29,960 --> 00:14:31,560 Speaker 1: see it when it's done. How long before we do 332 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 1: get to see it over the year? 333 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 2: Probably should be, but about the same time as Drop Bear, 334 00:14:35,920 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 2: so run a Christmas launch, so yeah, and then next 335 00:14:39,520 --> 00:14:41,280 Speaker 2: Wednesday you can come check out Drop Bear at the 336 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 2: Piccadilly seven o'clock. 337 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:45,080 Speaker 1: Okay, booking through Wallace do you need to book it 338 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:46,840 Speaker 1: at vance, or if. 339 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:49,360 Speaker 2: You head over to the six four Productions Facebook page, 340 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:51,480 Speaker 2: there'll be a link to the tribalking page. Or if 341 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:55,600 Speaker 2: you're trib looking for drop Bear, it'll come up and tickets. 342 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:57,880 Speaker 1: Just yeah, book tickets for drop Beer, drop Beer of 343 00:14:57,920 --> 00:15:00,800 Speaker 1: the movie. Perhaps google that and six foot that's your 344 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: production company company. Yeah, okay, that's good to know. So 345 00:15:03,480 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 1: six foot four google that as well and go to 346 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 1: see Drop Beer at the Piccadilly. Sounds good fun next 347 00:15:08,920 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: Wednesday night. John, great seeing you back in the day. 348 00:15:11,680 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: You were a Camo for ten years. Yeah, for about 349 00:15:15,440 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 1: ten years, so yeah, that's a long time ago. Yeah, 350 00:15:17,920 --> 00:15:22,520 Speaker 1: it's been twenty years now. That's crazy. Good on you, John. 351 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:24,840 Speaker 1: Good luck of the movie. Thank you, John de cooee. 352 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:27,240 Speaker 1: I guess the movie to be filmed around Port Adelaide, 353 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:29,880 Speaker 1: Semaphore Lark somewhere down there in the next month or so. 354 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:35,640 Speaker 1: Great what was it called, Great Great White Project? Great 355 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:37,760 Speaker 1: White There we go, So look out for that along 356 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:40,240 Speaker 1: with Drop Beer at the Piccadilly next Wednesday night.