Me and my friend are both directors. I'm a director with a specialty in action and acting. He's a director that specializes in VFX.
We've been working on a project for two years. Our plan was to make a small budget movie in Asia.
I told him about a concept for a movie I wanted to act in and direct. I somehow let him be the director and I would be the lead. (Distribution aim was Amazon, iTunes, Netflix. We both already have connections for producers at each company.)
Dilemma:
I flew in a stunt man from Asia this past week. He has recently worked with training a B-List soap opera star from Korea and a martial arts viral Instagram girl.
I introduced my director friend to the stunt man. The stunt man was excited about our project and called the two pop star girls about us using them for the movie.
My director friend didn't seem to care about using them.
Until today.
We were talking about concepts. In the middle of the conversation, he said "I got it! Let's have the two girls star in it. And everyone will watch it!" I said "Oh, and I'm out of my own movie." He said "No, no you can still be one of the side characters."
Whoa. Just whoa.
Came out of nowhere.
I hope this was just a flight of ideas. He's a bit lost socially and doesn't get physical or emotion cues. Maybe that's it? He was throwing out ideas?
He hasn't directed anything before. He couldn't even complete his short without help.
He asked me to send the two girls contact information. Which I definitely will not do. We've been planning this movie for the past 2 years.
All of a sudden, he wants to replace me. I know this happens all the time in Hollywood, but you'd think the replacer might have actually directed or shot something before.
My friend could try contacting my stunt friend for the two famous contacts. But my stunt friend hates shady business and has had to deal with that a lot. So he probably wouldn't give my friend the contacts.
Not sure the best thing to do or how to handle it.
We've been working on a project for two years. Our plan was to make a small budget movie in Asia.
I told him about a concept for a movie I wanted to act in and direct. I somehow let him be the director and I would be the lead. (Distribution aim was Amazon, iTunes, Netflix. We both already have connections for producers at each company.)
Dilemma:
I flew in a stunt man from Asia this past week. He has recently worked with training a B-List soap opera star from Korea and a martial arts viral Instagram girl.
I introduced my director friend to the stunt man. The stunt man was excited about our project and called the two pop star girls about us using them for the movie.
My director friend didn't seem to care about using them.
Until today.
We were talking about concepts. In the middle of the conversation, he said "I got it! Let's have the two girls star in it. And everyone will watch it!" I said "Oh, and I'm out of my own movie." He said "No, no you can still be one of the side characters."
Whoa. Just whoa.
Came out of nowhere.
I hope this was just a flight of ideas. He's a bit lost socially and doesn't get physical or emotion cues. Maybe that's it? He was throwing out ideas?
He hasn't directed anything before. He couldn't even complete his short without help.
He asked me to send the two girls contact information. Which I definitely will not do. We've been planning this movie for the past 2 years.
All of a sudden, he wants to replace me. I know this happens all the time in Hollywood, but you'd think the replacer might have actually directed or shot something before.
My friend could try contacting my stunt friend for the two famous contacts. But my stunt friend hates shady business and has had to deal with that a lot. So he probably wouldn't give my friend the contacts.
Not sure the best thing to do or how to handle it.
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