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| MOVIE ENTRY |
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Atom Nine Adventures |
| directed by: |
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Christopher Farley |
| screenwriter: |
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Christopher Farley |
| location: |
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Studio City, California |
| press info online: |
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www.atomnine.com |
| official website: |
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www.atomnine.com |
| trailer: |
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www.atomnine.com
[ then click on video, then trailer - FLASH ] |
| contact: |
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cfarley@lostcityent.com |
| synopsis: |
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In a remote forest, Astrophysicist Dr. Adam Gaines (Farley) and his homemade robotic assistant Jimbot (Meade) recover a 3.5 billion year old meteorite containing an alien organism that may hold the secrets to the universe. What they don’t realize is that a mysterious terrorist named Gremlo Flugg (Armstrong) and his band of “Fluggmen” also seek the ancient contents of the meteorite so they can carry out their sinister plans to take over planet earth. |
| runtime: |
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77
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| screening: |
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Feature 3 [ refer
to schedule ] |
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| Dark Romance Review |
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| Q&A
with Christopher Farley |
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| How
long did your project take
to create, from conception
to final completion? |
| 4 years. Actual production was only 10 days but the special effects took 3 years for me to learn from scratch and execute. |
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| Where
did your inspiration come
from? |
| I have always been a huge fan of science fiction, adventure and super-hero movies. My inspiration for this particular movie came from a character I created for a radio show called "KUFO" back in the early 1990's. |
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Horror or Sci-Fi your primary
creative interest? |
| I'm actually an equal fan of both. Growing up, me and my friends spent many nights renting the latest low budget; straight-to-video "hack'em slash'em" movies. And I was (and still am) a bit of a prankster. I love to startle or scare people in as many creative ways as possible. Although my current movie is definitely Sci-Fi, I have two high-concept horror scripts that I'd love to make next. WIth the high saturation of horror movies in recent years, scaring people in the theatre is getting harder and harder...but I know I have quite a few tricks up my sleeve that'll do the trick! |
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| Can
you describe a typical day
in the creative process? |
| I really love the filmmaking process. I love making checklists, storyboards and schedules to have everything ready and organized on paper and in my head. I am always first to arrive on the set and I quietly visualize the set-ups for the day and then when the DP arrives we tweak the lighting for the first master shot and then once the actors arrive we figure out blocking, tweak dialogue and really just submerge ourselves in the creative process. The tough days were when we shot out in the desert. There was one day where it was 108 degrees and then another day when it was just 45 degrees! It is really difficult to work under those extreme conditions but the cast and crew were really professional and their dedication was (and still is) greatly appreciated by me to no end. And, in the end, those locations really lend themselves to terrific production value for the movie. |
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| Who
do you consider to be the
greatest horror writer? |
| As a one word answer, Stephen King. But I think the greatest horror writer for an individual is their very own imagination. What our minds and our fears can conjure up just by walking into an unfamiliar place in the dark or hearing an unfamiliar sound are often some of the most terrifying experiences of our life. And as many times as I might have been startled or had a feeling of "suspense" while watching a movie or reading a book, I've never felt the sheer terror I've experienced from some of my very own dreams. |
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| Can
you recall the first horror
film that left a lasting
impression on you? |
| I've seen lots of terrifying horror movies like The Changeling, Halloween and the Exorcist...but for some reason the original Amityville Horror back in 1979 has left the longest lasting impression on me. There was one particular scene where the mother (Margot Kidder) walks in on her little boy just after he had apparently been talking to someone (or some "thing"). When she went to the window to see if anyone was out there, she was startled to find two glowing red eyes looking back at her from the darkness! From that day on, I've never been able to leave my window open at night...even when it's really really hot! |
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| Who
do you consider to be the
greatest 'Masters of Horror'? |
| John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Joe Dante, John Landis and Steven Spielberg. |
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| How
did you find your cast? |
| I found most of my cast members using a number of online sites but the best talent came from my postings on Craigslist. The one exception was Paul Meade who would be the voice of "Jimbot" in my movie -- he is a friend of mine from college and I always knew he and his voice would be perfect for that part. |
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| What
is you most memorable moment
while making your film? |
| There are many, but the one that really stands out was when we were shooting the big finale. We were out in the desert (and on this particular day the temperature was quite nice) and had been shooting all day for two other sequences in the movie which we completed just as the sun started to cast its golden glow across the landscape. This was important because the last scene in the movie takes place at sunset and we had 10 set-ups, 4 people and a very short amount of time before the sun set. And at the time of year we were there, the sun was setting behind a small mountain which shortened our light by about fifteen minutes! But the cast and crew were really on the ball and everything went off without a hitch, including our one dolly shot. I still had three big scenes to shoot more the movie, but when I got the footage of the last scene home and edited it together my eyes actually welled up because it came out exactly as I had imagined. And it was at that moment that I knew the movie was going to work. |
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| Did you re-edit your film after the first cut? |
| Yes. I edited the movie many many times. By the end, all the data for my movie was spread across 7 hard drives. My film is actually a sequence of short films or segments that all tie together to tell one story. So I would work on each segment separately before moving on to the next one. This was partly due to the fact that I was learning how to do special fx as I went along. And working with those special effects added immensely to the creative process because it gave me the opportunity to explore different editorial directions since some entirely new moments or shots could be completely generated by computers long after principal photography had been completed. |
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| Did you shoot on film or with digital cameras? |
| I shot the live stuff with a digital camera (both video AND still) and I also shot with an actual "digital camera" in my 3D program for all the animated stuff -- often times having to match them up together! |
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| If
you could choose any famous
actor to work with on future
projects, who would it
be? |
| Harrison Ford, Naomi Watts, Tom Hanks, Jack Black, William Shatner, Halle Barry, John Lithgow, Mitch Yost, Robert Redford, Kevin Coster, Treat Williams, Jim Carrey and Bruce Willis
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