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In
The Halls Of Dark Horse Indie, Part 2
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Derek
McCaw:
So will you be getting theatrical releases?
Chris
Tongue: Hopefully. We're still working out the kinks
in this. There are no hard and fast rules right now. We
have a couple plans for that, but none of them have been
put into action yet.
Derek
McCaw: It makes sense to me. You seem a little
ahead of the curve, what with Warner Home Video doing their
DC animated projects. You're already there.
Chris
Tongue: Well, a lot of people are doing direct to DVD
kind of stuff. But we don't look at it as that, otherwise
we would have called it Dark Horse Home Entertainment. This
is our chance to operate independently of the studio system.
Derek
McCaw: Besides My Name Is Bruce, you have Monarch
of the Moon…
Chris
Tongue: The gem that we "found…"
Derek
McCaw: I think that line's time is past…
Chris
Tongue: Yeah, that's past, and I'd
like to thank you for playing along.
Derek
McCaw: It was fun. Is that going to be the
first official release?
Chris
Tongue: It looks like Monarch's going to come
first. Depending on whether it's packaged with (an earlier
film from the same creative team) Destination: Mars
or not, and how many different versions we release it in.
We have a black and white version, we have a colorized version
and, …yeah.
We're
putting together the package right now.
Derek
McCaw: It did have one public screening in
Austin, Texas. Which version showed there?
Chris
Tongue: That was in color. We actually sort of got chastised
by Aint It Cool News for showing it in color, because they
thought that was a departure from the original art form.
Those serials weren't in color. The fact that we added color
…they didn't like that.
Derek
McCaw: You're talking about a San Francisco
screening. Which one will show there?
Chris
Tongue: I think it will be the color one. It's more
accessible to more people. Some people dig the black and
white and more power to them, but we put a lot of effort
into recolorizing this thing. (laughs)
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A taut
gang-based murder mystery...
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Derek
McCaw: How do you get involved with these projects?
You've got Splinter coming from Michael D. Olmos, but it
sounds like he and his partners had developed that separately.
How does Dark Horse Indie get involved?
Chris
Tongue: They were doing that on their own, they ran
into some trouble and we stepped in to help them finish
the film. That came in through Barry Levine. We were able
to bring (Tom) Sizemore into the project, and obviously
Michael's father Edward James Olmos was instrumental in
getting the film the attention it deserved.
Derek
McCaw: Another in the stable - Driftwood…
Chris
Tongue: Driftwood was developed pretty much in-house.
That was another in the relationship through Barry Levine,
who produced Detroit Rock City with Tim Sullivan,
who is the director of Driftwood.
They
always wanted to work on something together. Barry was working
with us and brought us this project. We thought it was pretty
cool, so there you go.
Derek
McCaw: All I know about that one is that Diamond
Dallas Page is in it.
Chris
Tongue: Diamond Dallas Page is in it, Talan Torriero
is in it, who's a major draw, as is Ricky Ullman from Phil
of the Future. Talan's from Laguna Beach, he's
got an album coming out this Fall…I guess. (we both shrug)
Derek
McCaw: So what is Driftwood about?
Chris
Tongue: It's actually really hard to categorize as a
horror movie, or as a thriller or as a drama. It's a horror
drama about a youth prison camp.
You
know those camps that they send bad kids to, to sort of
reprogram them in Montana or wherever? A lot of kids these
days at least know somebody that has been through them,
and a lot of times they're not particularly good experiences.
I don't know if they're really doing any good for these
kids.
In
a way, this was a bit of commentary about that. Then we
took it a step further by adding a supernatural element
into it. The new kid at the camp is being haunted by a kid
who's just been killed there, letting him know he's next.
Derek
McCaw: And Diamond Dallas Page seems to have
worked his way into a few of these films…
Chris
Tongue: He's in all of them. Wait, no, he's not in Monarch
of the Moon, but his ex-wife is. Kimberly Page is there
as the Dragonfly, and she's fantastic. He's also not in
My Name Is Bruce. But he is in Hood of Horror,
Snoop Dogg's new horror film that Tim wrote.
Derek
McCaw: That's not a Dark Horse film.
Chris
Tongue: No, but Dallas is family.
Derek
McCaw: How do you decide on these films? Is
it just movies you want to see? Will you focus on certain
genres - we're not going to see a Dark Horse chick flick
any time soon, are we?
Chris
Tongue: Probably not. Unless it's got an interesting
genre twist to it. I think you can pretty much expect the
same kind of material you get out of Dark Horse (Comics).
Genre-type stuff, but not limiting ourselves to any specifics.
Basically,
good stories, well-told, that we're interested in. If you're
a Dark Horse Comics fan, you'll be a Dark Horse Indie fan.
Derek
McCaw: When will these start launching?
Chris
Tongue: The first part of 2007. Then we've got a John
Landis project going that I can't tell you anything about
and a …
We
decided to phrase it thusly: a project with a writer of
some renown who may or may not have written a famous episode
of a famous science fiction television series who may or
may not be extremely litigious if you spill the beans about
his (or her) projects too soon. This writer has also referred
to Fanboy Planet wrestling columnist Chris Garcia as "the
devil."
We
might be doing a little documentary on Forry Ackerman, some
other cool little things that otherwise wouldn't have distribution.
Derek
McCaw: You've got a lot of scripts in the pipeline…
Chris
Tongue: Oh, yes, did you hear about…
Here,
Chris mentions a title so concisely perfect in the height
of its concept that it's a tragedy I can't share it here.
Suffice to say, when Dark Horse Indie DOES see fit to announce
it, you'll read about it on Fanboy Planet.
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