Cabin in the Woods

So as you might have noticed, we did not manage to get two episodes in this month as I had hoped. Apologies. We are working towards that goal, but between actors with opposite schedules, and me and Joz (who produce and edit this thing) being very booked, it has been a challenge to up the release tempo. Just please know that we're working towards that goal. For now, I hope that one episode a month and the B-Rolls will suffice.

Gosh I've been excited to get to this movie. The concept of making my actors reprise their previous rolls literally has been in my back pocket for like two years and I have been so excited to unleash it. It doesn't disappoint. There's definitely a weird chemistry they find between this group, even though prior to this session they hadn't had any reason to expect that these characters would actually know each other. It was a silly concept, but I kind of love just getting to hear these guys slip back into those old familiar characters, and see what strange dynamics start to form between them.

I did spend a good amount of time trying to figure out the ideal cast for the concept. I wanted it to be iconic characters played by my five most regular actors. They needed to fit the five archetypes from the movie (Athlete, Fool, Scholar, Virgin, Wh*re). They needed to be humans, with no superpowers, who exist in the modern day. I looked at a bunch of different arrangements, and decided that this was clearly the optimal set. How'd I do? Is there a different five-some that occurs to you to fit those archetypes?

Oh, and I haven't even gotten to the main course, the choice of monsters. I'll talk about that more next movie. In a way it was anti-climactic, because we did this in Goonies, but I went way farther with this one. More options. A more careful system of how to choose them. It was a lot of fun. I hope it comes accross.