We decided in these recessionary times to make a low budget comedy that we would find funny, something that our friends and neighbours would find funny - nothing more. Unfortunately because of the economy, raising money for anything is pretty difficult (just ask Mike Ashley) and so we haven't actually shot the film yet. We are slightly behind schedule (we originally envisioned shooting in August), now however it FINALLY appears we are just about to close the finance - but the weather and the dark nights make this a pretty shitty time to make a film! So although it might feel like we've had the world's longest run up - we are slowly moving towards making our first film! I don't expect everyone to like it, I don't expect it to be a massive box office success - it always has been about making a film that we would find funny and hoping we could find enough like minded folk to pay back our investors - and that goal is largely the same as it always was. Fingers crossed this time next year we'll know if we were right!
So a couple of years back we had a little idea for a film that we wanted to make. James had had three different ideas that we fused together and came up with Pissheads. The original ideas were a documentary about all of the pubs that have closed down in the North East and the effects on their community, a film about a bloke who refuses to leave a pub - ever and a spoof about a "retired, alcoholic, country music legend". None of these were particularly inspiring, then one day over a beverage or six we came up with the idea to fuse them together - and Pissheads was born. Basically Pissheads is about a small group of friends from Walker who set out to save their pub and along the way try to track down a retired country music legend to help them.
We decided in these recessionary times to make a low budget comedy that we would find funny, something that our friends and neighbours would find funny - nothing more. Unfortunately because of the economy, raising money for anything is pretty difficult (just ask Mike Ashley) and so we haven't actually shot the film yet. We are slightly behind schedule (we originally envisioned shooting in August), now however it FINALLY appears we are just about to close the finance - but the weather and the dark nights make this a pretty shitty time to make a film! So although it might feel like we've had the world's longest run up - we are slowly moving towards making our first film! I don't expect everyone to like it, I don't expect it to be a massive box office success - it always has been about making a film that we would find funny and hoping we could find enough like minded folk to pay back our investors - and that goal is largely the same as it always was. Fingers crossed this time next year we'll know if we were right!
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Mr Kazakhstan
13/11/2010 04:02:20 am
As I sit here on the vast unforgiving steppes of this vast ex Russian state ( On fucking nightshift ! Thought my days of nightshift had well and truly fucked off ! Fucking nightshift ) I thought i would use my break to log onto the pissheads website and see whats been ganning on. Well it appears we are finally going to make this fucking movie and Im over the fucking Kazakh moon - I can actually see Orions belt and the frying pan here - Cz am on FUCKING nightshift !Anyway some mad Russian Cunt has walked in the door wanting me to sign some shitey bit of paper, Spagonoi nochi ! poka poka, Dobroe Vecher ! FUCKING NIGHTSHIFT !
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