Over the last weekend of April, I was in Jonesville, MI, to act in the production of the trailer for "Funland", a feature-length horror thriller written and directed by Mitchel Jones.
One of the best things about this film shoot for me was an opportunity to meet everyone on the cast (listed at http://www.myspace.com/funland_admit_one and especially Linda Crowder, who plays my wife in the movie.
One of the fun aspects about this film was the opportunity to die a bloody death. I won't go into the details but if you look at the photo here, you'll get the idea -- be sure to click on the image to see a better view! The makeup was created by Rob Johnson of Body Bag Entertainment. Rob and his crew provide the special effects for this film.
I'm really looking forward to seeing the trailer and going back to Jonesville later this year to work with Mitchel and everyone involved and to finish shooting this project.
As many of you already know, I was cast as Santa in "The Box". The movie was filmed in the greater Boston area during the 2007 Christmas season and will be released on October 30th, 2009. I hope everyone gets a chance to see it this Halloween. This is the film that made me eligible to join the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
People often ask me what "The Box" is about. Well this is the synopsis provided by the director, Richard Kelly:
Norma and Arthur Lewis are a suburban couple with a young child who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world--someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and face the true nature of their humanity.
