The Phoenix

...aka The Bridge aka It Gets Better...

All prospective names for my the feature length script I wrote a couple of years ago and which I still want to see made. I named it It Gets better before the Perez Hilton anti-bullying campaign took off - 'It gets better' is a saying that has been used in recovery circles for years to encourage people to keep going through the hard stuff till you get to the easier stuff.

You can find out a little more about it here:

The Phoenix

I've just put a couple of little mood reel-y type things on youtube that have been put together at different times to demonstrate how we think the film would look, feel and sound.

This first one I put together to Paul Kelly's Dumb Things to demonstrate how I think my main character Clint looks. As soon as I saw Jean-Claude Van Damme in JCVD I thought this is Clint - tough but tired of fighting.


This one is something Owen Johnson put together when The Bridge was chosen for the script development hothouse, Indivision. It was quite spiffy really - we had a week long workshop with Gillian Armstrong (director Little Women, Charlotte Grey) and Andrew Fierberg (producer Secretary, Fur) as our mentors and they both loved the script. On the last night of the workshop, we had a dinner party and everyone got a little drunk. I guess there were about twenty five of us and as I was leaving, I stopped to thank Andrew and Gillian for all their lovely time, energy and input. They both kissed and hugged me and wished us well. Andrew said, 'Look, I'm not pissing in your pocket, as you Aussies say, most people I see have just got a script... You guys have really got a movie here.'



Andrew Rankin took the photos for this one.