G A B R I E L – C A R R E R

Please stop. I don’t care if you’re my friend or not. I’ve stopped 100% and can honestly say for the last 2 months, I’ve been able to have a clear conscious. It was hard, because it’s become socially acceptable to watch pirated material on the internet. I think people need to be reminded that it’s actual creative, intellectual property, and therefore should be paid for!!!!

You are putting makeup artists out of work; you are putting the guys who hang the lights out of work. It’s not all just about the big movie stars, companies and big directors. You are putting real everyday people working for a wage out of work and it affects every realm of the film industry, high budget and low budget. It’s a food chain. You are also taking away from hard working people who don’t get anything in the back end percentages.

By you going out and buying our movies, our DVD’S, we get to keep our jobs and can help fuel the economy with even more jobs and work. We need to fight against online movie piracy and not just talk about it. We are makers, not takers. We need to protect our creative.

When you watch a movie online without paying for it, it is stealing. It’s the same as walking into HMV, grabbing a DVD and walking out the door with it. Just because you didn’t get caught, doesn’t mean its okay. It’s the exact same motion and intention.

Many cheap alternatives are around, such as used cd stores (the beat goes on etc, you can buy ANY DVD you are trying to find pretty much for less then 5 dollars) and even independently owned video stores (Thomas Video, Queen Video, Suspect Video etc). Love cinema. Hate piracy.

Everyones doing one of these, so why not. Top ten movie picks of 2011 now that the dust has settled,  in no order.

Bellflower
Drive
Melancholia
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Take Shelter
The Innkeepers
Hugo
Midnight In Paris
Insidious
In Time

So it’s begun. Bullethead my next feature film is nearly fleshed out. The second draft is completed and it’s “OUT THERE”.  In the House of Flies is well on it’s way to hit audiences in 2012.

Moving along on the 10 year project…I’ve started on the rewrites for the 1985 Future Kill remake.   It will be quite different from the originally with new characters but with the same themes.VERY amplified. That’s what will make it feel like a new film, alongside a very sleek and scary look into the near future of 2017.

There was a lot of humor in the original and I’m trying to keep some of that humour in, but it willl be dark humor.  For example, the film ALIENS had some dark humour with the banter amongst the marines, same kind of deal.  Regarding mood and atmosphere? I am naturally drawn to the dark side of the story. Who is this character Splatter?

Well, it basically starts with a group of radical underground protesters, who’ve taken extreme beliefs into their own hands after being brutally assaulted by a group of young police recruits. These aren’t the “nice” kind of protestors, these are the bad apples and but for some reason, you feel for them.  They stumble upon an alienated being whose genetic makeup is extraordinary and could help them fight against the new oppressing forces that threaten the freedom of the western world. This “being” was a freak accident and everything goes to hell when things get going. Humans have no self control. The film will also focus on some side storylines that explore peoples outlook of death in the future and their understanding of it.

What if a cure for cancer and aids is available to the public but only in limited quantities? Who gets it? And what do we do when nuclear radiation from years prior is causing mass deformities in our western culture?  All of this will be in Future Kill v2.0.

With H.R Gigers design of the original character Splatter, I will attempt to give the film that mood!  This is where it gets exciting. In other words, this is the same world that exists in Ridley Scott’s mind with the ALIEN universe because of the Giger connection. Perhaps this story could have taken place hundreds of years before Ridley’s space hunters confronted more of Giger’s beautiful designs in space.  Because of this Giger connection, the film will be very haunting and a large focus will be spent on bringing that classic Giger character Splatter design to life.  One of my goals is to make you deathly scared of him.

On that note, have some great holidays. If you haven’t seen it yet, here is the trailer for a great leading example of art in the cinema.