Hello G-Star Graduates,
The G-Star School of the Arts feature-length film, Destiny and the Bulldozers, keeps rolling on! Principal photography will begin on June 8, 2009 as slated. Several new developments in recent days have enhanced the production. We have signed our second Academy Award winner to work on the film. Dean Lyon won the Oscar for Special Visual Effects Supervisor for all three Lord of the Rings movies. In addition, his film resume includes Armageddon with Bruce Willis, Independence Day with Will Smit, and Air Force One with Harrison Ford. Dean is now the Special Effect Supervisor on Destiny. Academy Award winner Bobby Moresco (Co-writer & Co-producer of Crash and Million Dollar Baby) has been on-board from Destiny's inception as Executive Consultant and his daughter, Amanda Moresco (Crash, The Black Donnellys), continues in LA as the Writer of the film. The script is being developed in New York by veteran screenplay writer Ron Palillo, famous as the character Horshak from Welcome Back Cotter. Our star player is Tony and Golden Globe winner Barry Bostwick, best known as the Mayor on the TV show Spin City with Michael J. Fox for five years, and Brad in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Barry, who lives in Malibu, has given a verbal OK to star in the movie based on the treatment. He is awaiting the final script to sign on the film. Actress Jo Ann Pflug (MASH, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil) is also waiting on the final script to commit to the film. Joining the cast is another veteran actor, Renny Roker (Dark Waters, Honky Tonk Freeway), cousin to Al Roker (they look like twins). Director Joe Reilly (The Prince and the Pauper, Kings of Appletown) is bringing in a Disney player to whom the High School Musical franchise has been handed to (she starred in High School Musical III). A lock on her contract should be forthcoming in about two weeks. Joe is also bringing in a professional Director of Photography. With this cast, Joe believes he can guarantee distribution for direct to DVD and foreign sales, which means Destiny is now positioned to turn a profit which will go to the school for future films produced for our college students.
Bobby Moresco will be giving a seminar to our students at the school Monday, March 23rd. He is bringing several well known people in the industry with him to also give seminars to our students including Nilo Cruz, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play, Anna in the Tropics, which Bobby intends to produce as a play in our new sound stage/theater and then produce the film version of the play at G-Star Studios; one of the top attorneys from a big LA entertainment law firm; and tentatively the top talent agent (Bobby's own agent) from United Talent Agency (UTA), one of the largest talent agencies in LA.
You may read the treatment on the home page of our website at: www.gstarschool.org. We want all of our G-Star graduates who are in college to work on the film. Please contact Mr. Plumb to sign up at w_plumb@bellsouth.net. You can also call me on my cell at 561-386-6275 or email me at greghauptn@aol.com. We need you here by June 1, 2009 for pre-production. Again, the shoot starts June 8th and wraps June 27th (three weeks, 18 day shoot). Speaking parts are available. If you are interested in acting in the movie, please let Mr. Plumb know. He will inform you when the auditions will be held.
Sincerely,
Greg Hauptner
Founder
