I keep running across the "make a horror movie" advice. Apparently this is the kind of movie most likely to find a home in the marketplace without name talent. They can also be made quickly and cheaply. Unfortunately I don't really watch a lot of horror movies and just don't have an affinity for them. If we end up covering people in blood and running around in the dark screaming, remind me that I said I wasn't going to do that. But lets face it, our budget and time constraints really do limit the ability to make some types of movies. What to do? My daughter suggested a heist movie. Seemed unlikely when she suggested it, but after digging into it a bit I was suddenly hit like Gene Hackman's character in "Young Frankenstein" discovering his great-grandfather's work. Yes, a lot of heist films have big budgets, the big set pieces, ensemble casts of a-list talent, but there have been some very watchable heist films that were primarily story driven. I'd even argue that "The Town" could have held up as a a low budget production. At least the part that makes me watch it anytime I stumble across it on cable holds up without the big budget trappings. So we have a genre. And now we need a story and a screenplay. If that all comes together in time, this film 48 project could actually be both fun to make and to watch. Let's hope that truly "It...Could...WORK!"
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