A short film I'm producing refers to a certain actor in a very reverent fashion. I made him the author of a book. The characters in the film refer to this book, look up to the actor, and refer to the actor's name many times throughout.
In one shot we need to show the cover of the book and of course the title of it will have the actor's name in it and a stenciled outline of their image on the book cover.
For the poster for the film, I wanted to show the book being held by one of the actors.
What I'm wondering is if what I want to do with the book; mentioning the actor's name and inferring they wrote it is fine within the film. As for the poster, I have this feeling that having the actor's name showing anywhere on promotional material might be different than mentioning him in the story. All in all, just wondering the legality of everything. I really doubt I will profit from this film in any way, and while it will be a well done film, we really just made it to make it and exercise our film making and show people what we can do.
In one shot we need to show the cover of the book and of course the title of it will have the actor's name in it and a stenciled outline of their image on the book cover.
For the poster for the film, I wanted to show the book being held by one of the actors.
What I'm wondering is if what I want to do with the book; mentioning the actor's name and inferring they wrote it is fine within the film. As for the poster, I have this feeling that having the actor's name showing anywhere on promotional material might be different than mentioning him in the story. All in all, just wondering the legality of everything. I really doubt I will profit from this film in any way, and while it will be a well done film, we really just made it to make it and exercise our film making and show people what we can do.
