Darren Orange and the rest of the crew at Reactor 88 Studios wrapped up principal shooting on the InSpectres film (base on Jared Sorensen’s RPG) last fall and have been hard at work in post-production since. The plan is to have a premiere of the film at Gen Con this summer, and to whet your appetite for that, they’ve put together a teaser trailer for you. Check it out below. I think it looks fantastic, but since I’m one of the writers and producers on the film, I’m bound to be biased.
My co-writer on the script for the InSpectres movie, Jeff Dohm, is launching a new tabletop roleplaying game this year, called Steamfortress Victory. Jeff describes it as American steampunk, and it fits that bill like a set of clockwork goggles. The first product for it — a prequel dime novel/adventure called A Day at the Fair — debuted at Archon last year, and it’s now available for sale in print direct through publisher Industrial Dream Mills and as a PDF through DriveThruRPG.com.
If you like your steampunk wrapped in an American flag, be sure to check it out. It’ll give you a good taste of what you can expect from the full game when it premieres this summer.
The guys over at Reactor 88 Studios have set up a fund drive for the InSpectres film on IndieGoGo. Principal photography wrapped on the picture last month, but there’s a long way to go in post-production, showing the film around, etc., and that all eats money.
I co-wrote the screenplay for this with Jeff Dohm, and it’s a funny adventure film with some great actors and a fantastic crew. I also play a zombie in the opening reel, which may be worth the price of admission all by itself. Each level of contribution comes with a number of cool perks too. If you’re interested in investing anywhere from $10 on up to $5k, go ahead and check it out.
Last Saturday, I ran down to Bolingbrook, Illinois, to join the Reactor 88 Studios team in the first day of shooting for the InSpectres proof-of-concept short. I had been asked to play a zombie.
I spent the first couple hours at the Reactor 88 office, sitting for makeup. The talented and lovely Margret Ebert labored over me to make me uglier than I’d ever been, and she did a hell of a job. In advance of the shoot, she bought a suit at Goodwill and did horrible things to it, including tossing matches at it when her butane lighter ran out of fuel. When I got there, she made me look worse than the suit.
Once I got on the set, I had the easiest job of any of the actors. I had no lines, not even “Brains!” I just grunted and groaned a lot.
The strangest part of the day was lunch, when I weirded out everyone in the local Subway. Then I realized I couldn’t eat a sub without messing up my makeup, so I made do with a cookie and soda instead.
The trickiest part of the day had to be the fight scene I had with Brian Barber. We mixed it up pretty good, and the weather was so hot at one point that my makeup started to melt off of my face and drip onto his. This only inspired him to scream louder, so hopefully it comes out even better in the final cut.
The cast and crew and director Darren Orange were all fantastic and clearly there to have fun and make a film. Everyone was excellent. I made some new friends, played a little Guillotine while waiting to be called to the set, and then groaned myself hoarse. Good times.
We should have a rough cut of the film to show at the Reactor 88 event at Gen Con: Reactor 88 Studios: Behind the Scenes. That’s at 7:30 PM on August 6 in the Westin, Capitol III. I hope to see you there.
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