BAD BLOOD
Sheldrake here, live at the Tribeca Film Festival. Actors and directors invading, draped on chairs, hitting the snacks table. Beautiful women, talented writers and directors. Producers with the scene of blood in their noses.
This is why we’re here at Tribeca. To crawl into the machinery of indie filmmaking and deliver some of the goods back to you folks. I hope you enjoy this interview with the makers of BAD BLOOD, a 20 minute thriller starring Alan Cumming. Here are the players:
Roger Paul - Writer Producer
Peter Cummings - Writer Producer
Kyle Leydier - Writer/Producer/Director
And here’s the interview, done April 23rd 2005.
SHELDRAKE: So, you did a short narrative movie with Alan Cumming, one of my very favorite actors. X-men, Spy Kids, the computer nerd in Goldeneye…spill a lil’ bad blood on me…
KYLE: A dark, revenge, thriller type movie. Alan Cumming plays Davie, who is a man on a mission to get revenge on the man responsible for his girlfriend’s death and his own contraction of the HIV Virus.
SHELDRAKE: Wowww…. nasty. And very dark. It must be an intense 20 minutes. Cumming is an interesting actor to choose…
KYLE: One of these guys who doesn’t have to say anything at all, it’s all in his face.
ROGER: Such an interesting choice for him to do this. It’s not a usual sort of role for him…
SHELDRAKE: Yeah, the killer, it’s definitely against type for hin. He’s usually so humane and sympathetic, the roles he picks. Vulnerable is another word I think of with him. Sensitive. Heroic. Schlmiel. Like that.
PETER: Now, we all work in Vancouver, we keep running into each other and Kyle’s wanted to do this story for quite a few years, so we came together over it. It’s a really excellent cinematic story. It’s a short story from TRAINSPOTTING that was not used in the film, so we had to go to Irvine Welsh with our idea, and he got us an exemption from Andrew McDonald (producer of Trainspotting), then we went to Random House, then Alan came on board!
SHELDRAKE: It’s your first feature…
KYLE: Yeah, we shot it in 4 days on 35 millimeter film
SHELDRAKE: 20 Minutes, cinemeatic quality…it sounds light it be a really cool one-third of a feature “thrillogy” release. [If that’s never been used, then that’s AICN PROPERTY boys!]
KYLE: Wow, that’s EXACTLY what we we’re after. Our talks with Random House are leaning that way, towards another couple of adaptations…we’re very interested in telling controversial zeitgeist stories…we love the short film form. We want the feature format, but the intensity of a short film makes it perfect for this kind of story.
And that’s it. AICN Fans, I’ll be shooting a little vial of this bad blood into my veins tomorrow, and I’ll report back on how tasty it was.
Sheldrake
Tribeca
NY, NY
