The Good, The Bad, And The Metal

By Peter

So another busy fortnight rolls by. Progress continues to be made, with the 5th draft of the script being released to the crew and storyboarding in full swing. As time goes on, it’s always funny to think that about 6 or 7 months back, Operation Chastity was a small indie feature with not much besides a Warthog going for it. Oh how times change.

The big decision that was made in the past fortnight, which has already been announced on HBO and the 405th (and thankfully been met with positive opinion), is that the shoot dates have had to be pushed back from September-October 2009 to March-April 2010. Naturally this put paid to our hopes of screening the film at the San Diego Comic Con, and makes the expected release date to be some time in the Fall or Winter of 2010. It was a quality assurance issue – we could either rush pre-production through 4 months or work hard and steadily for 10. I had intended to wait until end of May to make the call, but the situation was apparent long before. The decision really made itself.

But for every down side there’s an upside. We can now look forward to an easier 2009, building lots of props over the coming 8 months, doing public events to help publicise our effort and so on. I have no doubt that the production will benefit as a result of postponing the shoot for a short while.

This week we welcome another crew member – Emil Smicklas (Props North America) is building Covenant weapons, and is doing a damn fine job of it. No doubt I will have more updates on crew in the VFX department in the coming weeks.

That’s all for now – keep checking in for more updates!