Halloween 3 has to be the most obscure movie we've rerolled, right? By far. Time Bandits and Friday the 13th the Final Chapter are contenders, but I think H3 takes the crown. (And this isn't a full...
2021-12-17 18:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostThere's an important lesson I thought I learned in making Halloween into an RPG, but it was the wrong lesson. I'll get to that but first I need to talk about my approach to making these things:
... 2021-11-30 07:24:07 +0000 UTC View PostIf there's any one "rule" of role playing that I enjoy thumbing my nose at it's "Don't spilt the party." It's actually not a bad rule for players, splitting the party weakens the group and needless...
2021-11-20 19:21:05 +0000 UTC View PostIt's really wonderful to be back in this world. Halloween is the closest thing we have to a long-running campaign, and it's wild to me how far afield this has gotten. I really have no idea where th...
2021-11-01 07:50:14 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back with more Aliens! This is a real fun campaign so far, I think! Hope you're enjoying it. It's a real back-to-basics approach. Lot of action. Lot of characters for us to chew through.
<... 2021-10-18 08:28:50 +0000 UTC View PostIt's here. We're doing it. It's happening. Aliens. We're also borrowing from the movies in having a shifting director for every movie, hence Jon taking the reins for this one. As we've previously d...
2021-09-30 09:21:13 +0000 UTC View Post100 Episodes! I can’t believe we did it!
spoiler warning this is a clip show/variety show/madcap comedy hour. I don’t like to break our core concept too much, but after 100 episodes I fee...
2021-09-03 23:45:51 +0000 UTC View PostI did it! I have killed the white whale that is Memento! I'm incredibly proud of the work we all did with this story, but my lord was it a massive effort. There are a lot of reasons this movie prov...
2021-08-12 03:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Ok, predictably there were issues with the last memento episode (23% technical 77% Paulo got a gig he wasn't expecting). We're working on that and will have it up in the next few days. But in the m...
2021-08-03 00:21:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We've never done a patreon exclusive episode before. Let us know how you like the experience. And please don't share the secret link provided with this post, as we'd like this episode to be exclusi...
2021-07-16 07:21:27 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back! And we have a bunch of stuff coming your way:
Next week: Twister as a patreon exclusive
Two weeks: Memento Finale
Three weeks: Twister part two on patreon
Four w...
2021-07-12 09:14:09 +0000 UTC View PostOk, we're back! Thank you so much everyone for your patience. I need to refrain from giving estimates as to when I'll have episodes ready, because my schedule's so unpredictable. But here we are wi...
2021-02-25 10:15:52 +0000 UTC View PostAll of you have been very patient with me when life gets in the way of producing the Reroll but anyway I want to offer an apology for our slow release schedule. Too much going on, both good and bad...
2021-01-17 01:57:42 +0000 UTC View PostApologies for the long hiatus between episodes. I won't bore you with all the details of my life, but it's been crazy. Hoping to put out the last memento episodes quickly so our Halloween episode d...
2020-12-01 04:57:39 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't generally like to give any backstory that didn't come out in the episode. Backstory, when dribbled in to a narrative slowly, through the natural telling of the principal action, can be incr...
2020-10-14 00:29:27 +0000 UTC View PostEpisode is up: http://www.filmreroll.com/?p=389
Ok, so let's talk about the structural challenges presented by telling...
2020-10-12 01:45:28 +0000 UTC View PostNew ep: http://www.filmreroll.com/?p=386
Not gonna talk about the reverse-order thing yet. Think it'll be more product...
2020-09-20 10:29:25 +0000 UTC View PostMemento. It's up. Part 1. I did it.
The last week and a half has been me stitching the whole thing together and looking at it backwards and forwards, trying to figure out if the thing I...
2020-09-01 09:09:21 +0000 UTC View Post
In the process of editing Memento, and it is taking me forever. It is by far the most work intensive edit I've had to do: Chapters with different guests, pulling files from all different places, tr...
2020-08-20 22:26:39 +0000 UTC View PostToy Story was a perfect delight to play. Some interesting differences in plot came out of the fact that Woody and I approached the problem of Buzz in different ways. Somewhere along the way in part...
2020-07-27 03:42:48 +0000 UTC View PostAh, it's such a joy to have someone else DM. I enjoy playing and it takes so much off my plate when someone else runs the game. Plus all my other DM's are always knocking it out of the p...
2020-07-05 10:35:20 +0000 UTC View PostIt's done! Oceans 11 is complete! I'm super proud of these episodes, but it was probably the most exhausting campaign to turn into finished entertainment. I discussed the narrative problems of tryi...
2020-06-16 07:47:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Oceans 11 races on. Part 5 will be the last one. I don’t know why, but it feels wrong to me that a reroll should ever be longer than five parts, although I would make an except...
2020-05-28 09:37:30 +0000 UTC View PostAt the time I was stressed about the logistics of the Oceans 11 episodes (logistics on many levels: the complex machinations within the story and how to make them entertaining, the mechanics of how...
2020-05-14 10:37:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I touched on this on my last write-up, but while I think that Oceans 11 will make for great finished episodes, they are a loooot of work to edit. What gets missed is how much logistics...
2020-04-26 11:05:54 +0000 UTC View PostThought you guys might enjoy the full lists of contacts that Jon and Joz got to make their plan based off of. Below is what I sent each of them.
This could have been such an easy story to record if I had just said that we're planning the same heist from the movie. But that's not what we do on the Film Reroll. Of course, I had the team creat...
2020-04-15 09:21:04 +0000 UTC View PostOk, back to regular non-April-fools episodes. We'll be back next week with part one of our exciting next movie which is . . .
. . .
. . .
<...
2020-04-03 12:28:57 +0000 UTC View PostThe extra bonus episode is up! We thought John Krasinski's subtle masterpiece A Quiet Place would make an amazing reroll and boy were we right. This one really stands on its own. We nailed it. I do...
2020-04-01 22:35:06 +0000 UTC View PostWe're back on a quick turn around with more The Rock! This is a fun episode, and then the ending . . . Well, I won't talk about the ending here. Spoilers!
Really enjoyed the chemistry on this...
2020-03-31 19:43:47 +0000 UTC View Post