03-17-2017, 03:01 PM
DOOM EYES ONLY HERE
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
No Russian hackers, microwaves, or Hilary emails please.
I've been hired to be an 'expert' on a new EL REY semi-scripted TV show called Man At Arms. It's akin to History's Forged by Fire or Discovery's Big Giant Swords, a show about making ancient weapons. This one spirals out of a successful web series - see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...iPqKlWNc6V - the Stagmar brothers forge in Baltimore. EL REY bought 8 episodes.
My co-stars (apart from the Stagmars) are Danny Trejo, Marko Zaror, Crystal Santos and Da'mon Stith. Robert Rodriguez is slated to make a guest appearance. Of course, I'm a huge fan of Trejo (he's soooo DOOM) and just search this forum for Zaror because I've been telling y'all to check him out for years now.
90% of the show is already in the can, shot in Baltimore at their forge. The weapons are made, including a Mongol ballista. I did some talking head stuff last Thursday and like I said earlier, it was really challenging. Next week is all the set up - the frame for the show. The cast assembles and there's group discussion of the weapons in a 'war room' set and then, there's weapon testing - they've got a lot of ballistic dummies, including a ballistic mummy for the Egyptian weapons.
I've been training all week with Guandao, which I feel pretty comfortable with now (it always was a mainstay form for me because I learned it early in my life). The Chinese weapon is the ji, which is a large halberd and I can transfer that I think. The other Chinese weapon is the Wind Fire Wheels - i've rebuilt some of my tiger hook form and some Tai Chi and might be able to fake it if called upon to do so. I've also been doing my suburi (katana air cuts) and got a lesson last Saturday from an old iaido brother, but I don't feel nearly as confident about my cutting skills. But in the end, I might only have to coach because Marko and Crystal are the pro stunt people. I can coach. I can coach the fuck out of shit. I've been feeling strong until last night when some weird inexplicable pain erupted in my right foot - geeze disease. Nerves. It seems to have gone away now.
I have several dialog scenes with Danny, which is intimidating because he's Danny Trejo - the BAD ASS himself. Did you know he has like 300 movies to his credit now? That's more than Jackie. So that part is intimidating.
I will be paid handsomely. The shooting schedule is intense - Mon thru Fri next week. It's going to be brutal, but I can't imagine I'll be on set all the time. Da'mon is the other expert so I'm in four eps and he's in four eps. I'm not sure if I'll still have to be in the war room scenes for those.
I come home late Friday night only to get up super early and see my daughter off to India for the Mt. Mad school trip, one of the main reasons we put her in that school. She'll be there for two weeks. The timing is bad because I really want to be with her as she prepares for her journey, nor do I want to steal any of her spotlight. But it's just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
Then I hop BART from SFO to Berkeley CMAT, who is also celebrating their 25th anniversary so they go two days. Tiger Claw has booked me a room, but we cut out early on Sunday to make it to a Kung Fu school opening in Concord (major client), then I get dropped off in Menlo to reunite with Stacy who has clients there (her old office was there so she still has a lot of private clients in that area).
If the show goes as planned, it will premiere this summer.
It's going to be on helluva run, that's for sure. I'm freaking out. FREAK. IN. OUT. This is way outside my comfort zone. But you guys know me. It's just irresistible for so many reasons. If you feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced, that'll be DM leaving a nine mile skid on a ten mile ride in a flailing attempt to run wild and free like he did in the days of his misspent youth.
Wish me luck, DOOM brethren.
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
No Russian hackers, microwaves, or Hilary emails please.
I've been hired to be an 'expert' on a new EL REY semi-scripted TV show called Man At Arms. It's akin to History's Forged by Fire or Discovery's Big Giant Swords, a show about making ancient weapons. This one spirals out of a successful web series - see https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...iPqKlWNc6V - the Stagmar brothers forge in Baltimore. EL REY bought 8 episodes.
My co-stars (apart from the Stagmars) are Danny Trejo, Marko Zaror, Crystal Santos and Da'mon Stith. Robert Rodriguez is slated to make a guest appearance. Of course, I'm a huge fan of Trejo (he's soooo DOOM) and just search this forum for Zaror because I've been telling y'all to check him out for years now.
90% of the show is already in the can, shot in Baltimore at their forge. The weapons are made, including a Mongol ballista. I did some talking head stuff last Thursday and like I said earlier, it was really challenging. Next week is all the set up - the frame for the show. The cast assembles and there's group discussion of the weapons in a 'war room' set and then, there's weapon testing - they've got a lot of ballistic dummies, including a ballistic mummy for the Egyptian weapons.
I've been training all week with Guandao, which I feel pretty comfortable with now (it always was a mainstay form for me because I learned it early in my life). The Chinese weapon is the ji, which is a large halberd and I can transfer that I think. The other Chinese weapon is the Wind Fire Wheels - i've rebuilt some of my tiger hook form and some Tai Chi and might be able to fake it if called upon to do so. I've also been doing my suburi (katana air cuts) and got a lesson last Saturday from an old iaido brother, but I don't feel nearly as confident about my cutting skills. But in the end, I might only have to coach because Marko and Crystal are the pro stunt people. I can coach. I can coach the fuck out of shit. I've been feeling strong until last night when some weird inexplicable pain erupted in my right foot - geeze disease. Nerves. It seems to have gone away now.
I have several dialog scenes with Danny, which is intimidating because he's Danny Trejo - the BAD ASS himself. Did you know he has like 300 movies to his credit now? That's more than Jackie. So that part is intimidating.
I will be paid handsomely. The shooting schedule is intense - Mon thru Fri next week. It's going to be brutal, but I can't imagine I'll be on set all the time. Da'mon is the other expert so I'm in four eps and he's in four eps. I'm not sure if I'll still have to be in the war room scenes for those.
I come home late Friday night only to get up super early and see my daughter off to India for the Mt. Mad school trip, one of the main reasons we put her in that school. She'll be there for two weeks. The timing is bad because I really want to be with her as she prepares for her journey, nor do I want to steal any of her spotlight. But it's just too good of an opportunity to pass up.
Then I hop BART from SFO to Berkeley CMAT, who is also celebrating their 25th anniversary so they go two days. Tiger Claw has booked me a room, but we cut out early on Sunday to make it to a Kung Fu school opening in Concord (major client), then I get dropped off in Menlo to reunite with Stacy who has clients there (her old office was there so she still has a lot of private clients in that area).
If the show goes as planned, it will premiere this summer.
It's going to be on helluva run, that's for sure. I'm freaking out. FREAK. IN. OUT. This is way outside my comfort zone. But you guys know me. It's just irresistible for so many reasons. If you feel as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced, that'll be DM leaving a nine mile skid on a ten mile ride in a flailing attempt to run wild and free like he did in the days of his misspent youth.
Wish me luck, DOOM brethren.
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