hellsing - i'm not sure about Dj's family, friends, and his side of the story, but I can tell you this: everyone in my family when we first started thought it was "cute" and "kinda cool" we were making a movie. I used to ask myself, "CUTE?! WTF!?"  but I don't think they realized is the scope of the movie an what would come out of it, and how well Dj could pull a movie like this off with sucha minimal amount of money. I mean, c'mon, in the grand scheme of things, a full-length feature movie made on $15,000 US dollars is like lunch money for an elementary school kid! But he pulled it off!
As I forward all of my family and friends the links to these reviews (even the harsh one or two we've had - I'm not one to pussyfoot around the bad ones), explaining to them the movie was picked up by Tempe Entertainment for distribution, the magnitude of the presales and the responses we're getting from individuals who have seen it - they all admit they are shocked, and then their curiosity is piqued.  That means more DVD sales, and vindication for Dj that, by golly-goddammit, he CAN make movies, and do a goddamn good job of it too! Especially with limited resources, as we had with Deadlands. If only you knew the struggle to keep that project going on the pennies he had left. It was close, but he pulled another goddamn rabbit outta his hat! (inside joke)
If only everyone knew how many times we've heard this scenario:
Person: "Wow, that was pretty good - how much did that movie cost you?"
Dj: "$15,000, including equipment, so techinically, approximately $9000 since most movies don't include equipment in their budget"
Person: "WHAT?! There is NO WAY you made that for $15,000!!!!"
That has been said over and over and over again - Dj can attest to that. When they find out the budget of the film, their only question (after wiping the look of disbelief off their face) is "HOW?!?!?!"
I just hope that DL:TR is the springboard for Dj to create more and more films. People, if you only knew the workings in this mans brain, the ideas that are pouring out of it for DL2 and future projects.... it's just fu*king staggering. If anyone has thought that DL:TR was a decent film, you haven't seen jack sh*t... yet. Wait 'till this man gets a real f*cking budget to make a movie!!  C'mon, Dj! Play the megamillions! win that bitch!
I will just say this (and Dj, I hope I'm not overstepping my boundries - if I am, please feel free to edit this out): I've read the 2nd draft of the script for Deadlands 2 - if this goes anything like the script, this will be THE movie that puts Dj on the fu*king directors map, period. It's miles above and beyond part 1, and I will leave it at that - i've said too much already.
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