Palm Sunday

Seems like the right time to look in on Porno. The look the other way fast.

I'm spending some time today on the rewrite of the feature, The Adventures of Porno the Clown, which I hadn't looked at since November of 2008 when I sent the full draft to Jay and our then-producer Anthony who has greeted me with radio silence since February of 2009. So it's been over a year and I'd say that constitues not being the producer anymore, having let Telefilm application plans fall by the wayside without so much as a phone call, e-mail, or tweet my way.

I already know a few things will change in this draft, and a few items will be restored from the earlier versions, but I think PTC can be a likable enough character to sustain a 90 minute film. What he can't do is open on 2,000 screens in a sanitized version. I mean, the very title is a litnus test for whether people should see the film let alone work on it. We can't tell Telefilm it's called Pedro the Clown and then change it to Porno at the eleventh hour without forfeiting tax credits. Basically, it should be a movie that knows a circle (jerk) of people are going to seek it out or be delighted to find the DVD box in a store - and it likely won't be a store that can't bare the sight of the word Porno on a shelf, even if it decribes what the movie intends to satirize.

Happy Palm Sunday.