i watched deceit & it should be at least as popular as tommy wiseaus the room
By the way, DECEIT was shot while I was doing reshoot pickups for CYBORG. The film I had turned in was a heavy metal headbangers adventure film. Very dark. Very pessimistic. The Cannon execs and Van Damme (via his crony Sheldon Lettich) decided the film should go in another direction. A reshoot was mandated. I was so unhappy about what was occurring I conceived the idea of doing a small film. I used the reshoot to mount this small picture. I selected the CYBORG shoot locations to match what I needed to shoot for DECEIT. Then I arranged with the crew to pre-rig and pre-light the CYBORG shots so they could later be used for DECEIT. The crew kept mum as did the equipment companies. There were times when Van Damme and his crony Lettich wondered about the strange choice of shooting location and rigging. Luckily, no one guessed we were prepping and shooting another entire film. The night after we wrapped the CYBORG shoot (conveniently on a Thursday), we began shooting DECEIT over the weekend. The camera, lights, etc. were wrapped and returned on Monday and no one was the wiser. The film cost $22,000. It was shot with only one take for each shot because I had less than 13,000 feet of film and the final film was 10,000 feet long. No margin for error and the actors were perfect. I later sold DECEIT to Menahem Golan and I have found it in video stores from Switzerland to Hong Kong.
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― johnny crunch, Saturday, 26 February 2011 03:49 (fifteen years ago)