Shot on Shitteo and Future Projects Update

As many of you know, our movie "Shot on Shitteo" has been in quite a limbo since the time that filming began.  When Jake was let go from the project, basically we had a 90% completed film, and our solution to the problem was to just simply start over and reshoot with Ryan in the lead role.  The problem is, I severely don't want want to reshoot it.  I've already directed the film, it is what I wanted it to be, I had fun doing it, and I had the drive to do it as well.  Reshooting it would be absolute hell for me for many reasons.  1, it would be me remaking a near complete movie that I've already made, and 2, there would be absolutely no passion from me behind it, it would be the most undedicated thing that I've ever directed and the movie would completely suffer from that.  

We've joked a lot lately that the movie was quickly becoming our "The Day the Clown Cried," and honestly, yeah, that pretty much is what it is.  Lets say I made up for the 10%  of unfilmed scenes by putting in an animated sequence, or making it with puppets .  That would be funny and all, and honestly I've seen shot on video movies do scenes with puppets, so it wouldn't exactly be out of left field.  Problem is, legally we can't release it.  All of our movies released on DVD have had consent forms from everyone involved with the productions, and sadly Shot on Shitteo doesn't have those for Jake.  The movie was shot extremely quick and we just simply hadn't drawn up the contracts yet, and no one predicted all the drama that would later unfold, so we don't have the consent to release the movie, even in an uncompleted form.  

The plus side is, we didn't lose any money on it.  The movie was so incredibly low budget, that we already made the money back from the vlogs that were released.  Right now the movie isn't edited, all of the raw footage sits on the vhs tapes that the movie was shot on.  Who knows though, maybe in the future a copy of it will mysteriously leak online somewhere.  Weird how that could happen!  Not promising that it would happen though, if by chance it were to mysteriously happen.  

Hopefully everyone understands why I don't want to reshoot a near completed movie.  I have several passion projects that I've been wanting to get off the ground for a very long time, and my focus right now is on making those movies.  I want to get back to making the kinds of movies that I wanted to make years and years ago before we started doing strictly comedy.  Reshooting Shot on Shitteo would be something I would have zero passion in, and honestly, I don't want a constant reminder of all the bad shit that went on behind the scenes.  

As for other stuff in my life, as bad as the first half of the year has been, the 2nd half has actually been quite amazing.  I've got a wonderful girlfriend who has been a primary source of my happiness, my shoulder is healing up, it's been great being back to work on new Snob episodes; plus Crystal Pepsi may be coming back, and Mad Max: Fury Road was 100 tons of high speed Mad Max Fury Road!!  

I'm in preproduction right now on a movie called "Shock," that will most likely be filmed in a short shooting schedule in September.  There was even talks at one point that the script for "Shock" would just simply be renamed "Shot on Shitteo," and I would shoot it on VHS, but I don't want to shoot that movie on VHS.  "Shock" isn't a comedy/horror like "Shot on Shitteo," it's a straight up 1970s drive in movie style horror/thriller.  It's not played for camp or selfawareness at all, it simply is what it is.  A mother (Sarah) hires a babysitter (Jillian) for the night, who is then stalked by mad man (me), while two cops search for his whereabouts.  There's also devil worship involved.  The movie will also be strictly released just for Patreon for 5 bucks, with a DVD release to come later.  The movie is a lot closer in tone to the early movies I did like "Freak Out," "Cheap" and "Midnight Heat," but obviously shot on a better camera.  

Speaking of which, we had talked for years about doing a "Midnight Heat 2."  We even had a script ready, and a few starting dates, but budget delays caused us to put it on hold.  Obviously now, "Midnight Heat 2" as it is now is kinda sorta dead.  I say kinda sorta, because it's a script I really like a lot, and a rewrite on it could turn it into something that isn't "Midnight Heat 2," but it's own seperate story with no connections to the first film.  But that's years and years on down the line.  There's other things I want to do.  I've got scripts for a rape/revenge movie, a 70s style porno, a drama about a downtown streetwalker; lots of stuff that I want to do and have been wanting to do for so long.  

So with all the "Shot on Shitteo" drama behind me, I'll hope you like what movies come next.