Today my calendar says it’s the first day of fall; I’m
happy about that, autumn is my favorite time of year. But looking back, I have
to say that this summer was pretty great. It flew by, as I stayed busy with a
number of excellent projects.
Editing for my third Sebastian and the Afterlife book
began (which I’m happy to get started). I
have already put in a bit of work on that; my chief editor and I will be
buried in editing for the next couple of months.
What really stuck out this summer is all of the
film-work I got to be involved with.
In the beginning of August I did some extra work in a
feature film called ‘The Spectacular Now’, starring some young Hollywood up and
comers you’ve likely seen on TV and other films. It was a high school dramedy
(drama-comedy) filming here in Athens. I got to be a pedestrian that walked by in a number of shots
filmed outside of a clothing store. If the scene stays in the movie, you should
be sure to see me this one particular time that I cross the street about twenty
or so feet behind a couple of the lead actors as they are delivering some heartfelt
dialogue. It will be coming out sometime in 2013.
The week following that, I found myself outside of
Chattanooga, TN, in a little horror movie called ‘The Hospital’. This was a fun
shoot, and my wife actually got to be in the film with me. We were diner patrons at this little restaurant called the Dixie Freeze. It was basically that classic scene where the young
college kid comes to the small town and says that they plan to go to the old
___(insert creepy location here)___ (in
this case it was the old abandoned hospital … oh, did I mention that it was
haunted?). At this point all of the town’s folk warn her not to go there, but the
visitor doesn’t listen… of course. My mind kept going back to the old crazy guy
in the 1980’s Friday the 13th movies telling the kids “you’re all
doomed!” The diner was small, and there were only a small number of us in the
scene, so you’ll definitely notice me. The movie will be in film festivals by
the spring of 2013, but from what I understand, it is not for the faint of heart.
Right at the beginning of September I was very excited to
get a chance to play a ‘Crawly Demon’ in the horror-comedy film Hell Hole. I
had a big costume/makeup job from head to toe to make me look like this
terrible monster… it was awesome. Everyone loved the character… a number of
people were taking pictures of me and with me. I kinda felt like a rock star on
set. I had a number of great scenes where I brought my monster swagger and
attacked people. I eat one guy, attack another, attack an officer, get beat up
by one of the lead girls, and attack the leading men. It was all part of a day’s
work for your local hell monster. The scenes I was in were both scary and
hilarious. You should keep an eye out for this film in 2013.
On another movie note: my picture will be appearing in a
short film currently titled ‘Masked’.
The image will appear in some mug shots of ‘The FBI’s 10 Most Wanted’.
I’ll be looking forward to that. I believe it’s a horror-thriller, but seeing a
mug shot of me as a serious villain is going to be pretty amusing. The movie is
in pre-production right now, I’m sure they’ll be trying to have it done in time
to enter film festivals early next year.
I was supposed to be playing a role in a horror movie
called Deathwoods, but filming got delayed. I will probably be a part of that
very soon.
If you're curious about any of the films I mentioned, (with the exception of the short film 'Masked') they are all already all on IMDB.com.
So it’s been a pretty insane summer… but it’s been insane
good. Now that it’s done, I can’t wait to see what the fall is going to bring.
I hope your summer was nice as well.
Take care; and I’ll talk to you again soon,
William
