Just for the Record – New Trailer

Ohh, looky – a new trailer:

Tell all your friends.

And my friends, if you see them.

In fact, fuck your friends. Just tell my friends so it saves me having to talk to them.

Just for the Record – website

Ooh, look! A spanky, shiny new website!

http://www.justfortherecord-movie.com

Where’s my flag?

1st October 2009

According to IMDb, that date (1/10/09) is the release date for ‘Just for the Record’.

Hooray!

Now all I need to do is work out exactly what that means. Released where? And via what medium? Or media?

In short, what the hell’s going on?

Perhaps if I actually read some of these emails it might shed some light?

Bigger penis, bigger penis, better drugs, cheaper drugs, cheap drugs to make your penis bigger, cheap drugs to make your penis better, cheap penises …

This could take a while.

Fuck it, let’s just watch the trailer again:

Just for the Record – poster

Ooh look, a natty new poster:

Just for the Record trailer

Today, and I suspect for the foreseeable future, I have a big silly grin on my face.

And here’s why:

If you like it, spread the word.

Uh … what?

“Jack Tweed launches post-prison career… with a film role as a man with no heart”

Okay … so what’s that got to do with me?

“Jade Goody’s grieving widower has started filming his first ever acting role dressed as the ‘Wizard of Oz’ character in British film ‘Just For The Record’.”

He has?

Oh, apparently he has:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1190608/Jack-Tweed-launches-post-prison-career–role-tin-man-feature-film.html?ITO=1490

Blimey … there’s a Tin Man in ‘Just for the Record’?

More positively …

It occurs to me the last post could be perceived as a bit negative, descending as it did in to a rant about Star Trek when it was meant to be an ‘ooh look, I’ve got a new laptop’ affair. So I thought, in an effort to redress the balance, I’d post a list of things I liked about the film because overall I did genuinely enjoy it (I just would have enjoyed it more had it made a little bit of sense):

The cast

The explosions

The bright colours

The short skirts

That they didn’t move too far away from the original uniforms and hence lose the bright colours and short skirts

That green woman in her underwear

Kirk and Uhura in the bar

Kirk’s massive hands

Spock getting the girl

Did I mention the green woman in her underwear?

McCoy generally – more of him please

Whoever chose the underwear for the green woman; because, you know, it must be really difficult to get the right colour to match that skin tone and it worked perfectly as far as I was concerned.

Other things I want to be positive about:

The Ten Doctors - I know, I know – you’ve probably all read it and it finished a few days back; but I wanted to wait until it had finished before I linked to it, just in case it went shit at the end.

It didn’t.

I liked it. It was great.

Confessions of a Superhero - I haven’t seen this yet, but I want to – it looks really interesting.

Oh and then there’s this BBC Look East New Bulletin- tonight’s, I think. The link should work today, whether it still works tomorrow is anyone’s guess. You’re looking to skip forward over the gloom and doom until you get to about 13.30

Now go about your day in a more positive manner.

A bit of a blur

It’s been another busy few days. Wednesday/Thursday/Friday saw me:

Have dinner in Jamaica, breakfast at 38,000 feet, lunch in Nuneaton, dinner in Crawley, breakfast in Eastbourne and lunch in London. I’d like to tell you which days they happened on, but it was all a bit of a jet-lagged blur and I’m not 100% certain.

Simultaneously I plotted one screenplay, was commissioned for a second and optioned a third (which doesn’t actually exist yet, but I’m sure I’ll have written it - or something vaguely like it – by the time everyone’s excitement dies away and they realise they haven’t actually seen a script).

I’ve also completely disrupted and possibly ruined a serious meeting about tweaking the rough cut of a produced movie by shouting about Star Trek, had a phone call from the Mail on Sunday about not being in Cannes, undergone a three pronged Mac-vangelist attack (I claim victory on the grounds one of their Macs packed up halfway through the argument) and taken a meeting in a room chock full of little rubber pigs – every single one of which bore a sticker proudly proclaiming:

THIS IS NOT A TOY

In other news, ‘Just for the Record’ is getting a bit of local press attention:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4384415.On_location_in_Essex___funnyman_Rik_Mayall/

and

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/4384407.Strip_club_plays_part_in_Rik_Mayall_movie/

My favourite quote being:

“Mr Lawson said: ‘To get the cast we’ve got, it must be considered a pretty good script and story!’”

Mr Lawson being Steve Lawson, the director and all round good egg.

I’ve never used the phrase ‘all round good egg’ before, but it seemed to fit and I’m always up for new things.

And that’s it. That’s your lot for a week or so since I’m now off on holiday to my parents’ house in France. I may post something mid week, I may not. In fact, I probably won’t.

Or maybe I will?

No. No, I doubt it.

But I will leave you with a few words of warning:

If you ever find yourself sitting in a cafe, calmly discussing whether or not to rape a young girl in front of the decaying corpse of her father … make sure you announce loudly, and at every possible juncture, that it’s JUST A FILM. It did seem to put a few people off their soup, but I thought the screaming histrionics and the threat to call the police were uncalled for.

Last post

Yeah … sorry about that last post.

I had one of those days on Friday when I completely failed to achieve anything useful whatsoever. It’s not that I had nothing to do, it’s more I just did nothing.

All day.

Most people produce shit until you put them under pressure, and then they produce a diamond. Me, I produce nothing until you put me under pressure and then I produce shit. It’s not an ideal situation, but there you go.

At the moment I’m just waiting for people to get back to me. Every project I’m working on is inbetween drafts (or currently shooting, or being edited or … other technical stuff which has nothing to do with me) and I can’t really do anything until people start getting back to me.

True, I have a long list of spec projects I could start … but … I didn’t.

And probably won’t.

Well, I will one day; but that day wasn’t Friday.

So I did nothing all day, then tried to write a blog post and failed.

Sorry.

Still, ‘Just for the Record’ started shooting yesterday … is it still Monday back home? No? Oh. It’s still Monday here because, yes, as usual I’m hiding in the Caribbean until the shoot is over.

No, that’s a lie – I’m here for the first week, then I’m going to see my folks in France for the second week. Either way, I’ll be avoiding the shoot and the UK until it’s all over.

Actually, that’s a lie too. I might go to Nuneaton on Thursday.

Or I might not.

Regardless of this drivel, ‘Just for the Record’ has started, it’s being filmed now and I can heartily recommend - without shame, reservation or doubt – if you’re going to avoid the filming of your script by hiding in the Caribbean, make sure you travel First Class … they’re very accommodating:

 

 

THERE USED TO BE A VIDEO HERE …

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IT ISN’T HERE ANY MORE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MOVE ALONG

 

 

 

More people

Two days until ‘Just for the Record’ shoots and a few new cast members announced: Colin Salmon, Adele Silva and Alice Barry …

D’y'know, I’ve completely forgotten why I started this post now.

I’m sure it will come back to me.

No.

Sorry.