Rural Ramblings

Here I am sitting at the stage door of my theatre that’s recently been graced by the mighty Henry (The Fonz) Winkler, Bobby Davro and Rik Mayall, bringing you tit-bits on various happenings in our universe that will be of no interest to anyone bar the four people remotely interested in the stuff we do. Hopefully that will change if we bribe enough folk. I have a mint copy of X MEN # 101 and a Mars Bar up for grabs for starters!

Update first, we’re in the final post-production days for RETURN TO RAVENSWOOD, my first full-length comedy feature. But hang on I hear you cry from behind your keyboard (not likely I’m sure), didn’t you have the premiere last October at your Film Festival?
Well, yes we did. Sort of.
So the question is, why is it still in post-production? OK, the screening we had was not the final cut. I always knew that after the screening, I was going to chop and change a few minor scenes and make it tighter.
Also, because of some unavoidable technical issues that would have put the malfunctioning hyper drive on the Millennium Falcon in EMPIRE to shame (OK, it was a computer crash so please do not mention ‘back-up!’), we had to effectively reconstruct the whole movie, which luckily wasn’t too much of a nightmare but cost valuable time in festival deadlines. Also, the final audio mix had to be done so it at least sounded like a damn movie and this is now complete (by the exceptionally talented Baz and Dunc at Boxwing, who also engineered our folk soundtrack).

So in the next couple of weeks, I can get the DVD out to cast and crew so they can stop yelling ‘ Where the fuck is this film we did for you, slacker?’ and obviously, send off to the Festival circuit.
If your remotely interested in this movie, your more than welcome to come and join the RAVENSWOOD MySpace page if you feel that you could do with another friend www.myspace/returntoravenswood and there’s more info at the website www.returntoravenswood.co.uk.

Finally, I can’t sign off without mentioning that Series 3 of DOCTOR WHO (not Season 29 as some fans would like to call it…get over it guys!) began again on 30th March and is gearing up to be another terrific season. It’s all there in the mix - New companion Martha Jones, Shakespeare, Daleks in NYC, the Doctor chillin’ out as a human (written by the very talented Paul Cornell), the return of Capt. Jack, the mysterious Mr Saxon thread and an actor mate of mine in the last episode.
On a side note, I had a friend in one of last years episodes who deliberately kept me in the dark about his appearance so I could yell ‘What the fuck?’ when he popped up on screen. Nice one sir. And yes, I did yell that too!It’s worth mentioning (actually it’s not at all) that my documentary on fans of DOCTOR WHO, appropriately titled FANZ is in the edit stage and should also be hitting the Festival circuit later this year. I may be looking at a Who Convention to premiere it if someone can accommodate us. Remember I have that X MEN comic and Mars Bar on offer!