January 2, 2010 • 2:26 am
Welcome to the world of tomorrow!
It’s 2010 – the year we make contact. Let me say Happy New Year and tell you about some things that are going on in the coming months.
In the next few weeks this blog will be changing its address to Bad Advice For Good Times and I will be launching a proper site dedicated to all my nonsense. Reason? While Casting Call of Cthulhu is an appropriate title for all my HPL film hijinks it doesn’t account for all the other interrelated activities.
In other news I am currently in the snow-kissed land of Galgary shooting for two weeks with District 9 DOP Trent Opaloch.
This place has some incredible locations including one of the most massive production design warehouses on the planet:
Even the curling rinks are sexy:
When I return to Toronto work begins on finishing the Drawing Baphomet teaser trailer and production design for Black Goat. It is unlikely that DB and BG will begin shooting before the end of February due to financing issues and actor availablity. The fact is Black Goat has to be shot in four parts so even if we start in Feb it won’t finish until October 2010.
So that’s the plan. Thanks for all your support over the last few months and keep in touch.
Be seeing you.
Filed under: Production, Uncategorized , hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, Joseph Nanni
September 7, 2009 • 11:53 pm
Last week we finished shooting the third HPL inspired short in our unholy trinity. A good time was has by all and the Necronomicon was refined and polished (the prop that is) Let’s call it a dry run for its feature film debut.
The short should be finished in a couple of weeks and then it’s off to the internets. And that’s it for our short films. But as the days get shorter the films get longer as we begin production on our first feature Drawing Baphomet.
Keep on Ftaghn,
Joseph Nanni
Jim offers some friendly advice.
The big bad book changes hands.
Dan holds 'the book' heavy with forbidden knowledge.
Filed under: Production , abdul alhazred, al azif, call of cthulhu, Elder Sign, fishmen, flying polyps, great race of yith, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, innsmouth, Joseph Nanni, Necronomicon, old ones, short film, yog sothoth
March 13, 2009 • 12:37 am
You asked for it, you got it – the complete Elder Sign jingle unabridged and uninterrupted. Click on the image, and cover your ears!
Filed under: Elder Sign, Production , animation, call of cthulhu, Elder Sign, flying polyps, great race of yith, hp lovecraft, hp lovecraft film festival, old ones, short film
February 20, 2009 • 11:05 am
Remember unfilmable – the site that once supplied us with every drip, dreg, and drop of Lovecraftian film news? Well you don’t need to remember them any longer because now they are back and ready to deliver all the up-to-date info on that which cannot be filmed. Check them out again for the first time . . . here.
Filed under: Elder Sign, Festivals, Love to Lovecraft, Production , call of cthulhu, darkest of the hillside thickets, Elder Sign, flying polyps, great race of yith, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, old ones, yog sothoth
December 9, 2008 • 5:26 am
In October, Bad Advice for Good Times announced that Joseph Nanni (Casting Call of Cthulhu) would be following up the success of his freshman effort with a new short. He wasn’t fhtagn around. Filming finished late last Monday, the rough-cut is in the can, and the footage is now in the hands of 4 Stroke animation who will be realizing another HPL inspired beastie with the same awesomeness they brought to the Great Race. The short was shot with Red Camera by D.P. Ray Dumas. Nanni says, “the film is funni-er than the one other film I have done.”
Keep watching this space for more news. Rumour is the trailer for Drawing Baphomet is also finished. The stars are right in 2009!
Filed under: CGI, Elder Sign, Love to Lovecraft, Production , animation, brian lumley, call of cthulhu, CGI, comedy, cradle of filth, darkest of the hillside thickets, doug bradley, dragon con, Elder Sign, fishmen, flying polyps, GANGRENE, great race of yith, guillermo del toro, hellboy, horror, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, john coulthart, latex, lovecraft: fear of the unknown, mike mignola, old ones, Prosthetics, short film, st joshi, yog sothoth
October 2, 2008 • 6:01 pm
Bad Advice for Good Times, the most untrusted name in filmmaking, announced today that it will begin preproduction on two features and a short inspired by, expanding on, and celebrating the work of the most influential horror writer of the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft. The films will be co-written and directed by Joseph Nanni (Casting Call of Cthulhu) and produced by BAGT. “CCoC was like a dry run for us, so we were pleasantly surprised by its success,” says Nanni. The short film was selected by 12 festivals across the globe and was downloaded over 20,000 times from Yog Radio. While Casting Call of Cthulhu is a comedy Joseph assured us that the lines will be blurred in the upcoming productions, “The next three films won’t be comedy but funny things will happen.” None of the films are adapts of Lovecraft’s work but will incorporate characters and themes he dealt with. “I think adapting Lovecraft is a great pitfall of the genre. Fans inevitably compare the film to the text, which is unfair. Lovecraft’s ideas and storytelling are a completely unique experience for readers.” Nanni says his approach to Lovecraft will be similar to Lumely and others who have added to the mythos, “Lovecraft’s work was an open system, he encouraged other writers to take the ideas and expand on them.” The team behind CCoC will once again focus on a minor Lovecraft minion, “The three films will feature Shub-Nigguarth and introduce a secret society dedicated to suppressing evidence of the Old Ones.” The short, entitled Drawing Baphomet, will be released in early 2009 and the films begin shooting next spring.
Filed under: Production , animation, brian lumley, call of cthulhu, CGI, comedy, darkest of the hillside thickets, dragon con, fishmen, great race of yith, guillermo del toro, hellboy, horror, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, john coulthart, latex, mike mignola, old ones, paul carrick, Prosthetics, short film, st joshi, yog sothoth
April 11, 2008 • 10:30 am
Is this how it ends? After months of toil, blood, sweat, and sacrifice Casting Call of Cthulhu is finished and ready for human consumption. In the bowels of Alter Ego we tracked the last super, synced the last sound, and restriped. My God, what have we done!
Filed under: Production , animation, call of cthulhu, CGI, comedy, darkest of the hillside thickets, fishmen, great race of yith, horror, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, latex, old ones, Prosthetics, short film, yog sothoth
December 21, 2007 • 10:00 am
The Casting Call of Cthulhu is cursed to have so many talented and evil individuals disassociated with our doomed offering. And it is time again to scrawl yet another name in the Productionomicon. It is our great displeasure to welcome Alter Ego. This Toronto-based post-production facility have already coloured and transferred our tainted stock and added a level of artistry our inbred-minds could have never anticipated. The film look is professional – if only we had a script to match. Alter Ego will continue their contribution with their Flame Artists removing the unsightly seams, strings, and foul-ups, basically the bits that bind us to reality, and adding our titles, glows, shapes in shadows, and another head to an actor’s body. This is no line of work for any God-fearing soul – brace yourselves.
Filed under: Production , animation, call of cthulhu, CGI, comedy, darkest of the hillside thickets, fishmen, great race of yith, horror, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, latex, old ones, Prosthetics, short film, yog sothoth
November 4, 2007 • 8:30 pm
Many are the secrets the darkness conceals and in darkness dwells the editor; lurking in shadow, behind the scenes, out of the audience’s sightline. The supreme irony being that editing is often the most important part of the process. The editor has ultimate control over how we see a scene and can often alter the fate of a film entirely. We have placed this ultimate power in the hands of Geoff Ashenhurst and the fine folks at Stealing Time. Geoff is a consummate professional with idealistic values and unreasonable goals making him a perfect fit for the project. Coincidently he is also the leader of his local Cult of Cthulhu, so he’s got that going for him.
Filed under: People, Production , animation, call of cthulhu, CGI, comedy, darkest of the hillside thickets, fishmen, great race of yith, horror, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, latex, old ones, Prosthetics, short film, yog sothoth
Iä! What was spoken of in dark circles and forbidden places is now manifest! Bad Advice for Good Times is officially making a short film inspired by the loose interpretations of the parodies of the works of H.P. Lovecraft. The story takes place during a casting session for a film based on the work of the bard from beyond. The director, mildly familiar with themes of weird fiction, works his way through a series of minor monsters auditioning for the role of the big Cthuna. The session reaches the peak of cosmic horror when an actual Old One shows up and blows the room away, literally. Prepare to laugh with terror.
Filed under: Production , animation, call of cthulhu, CGI, comedy, darkest of the hillside thickets, fishmen, great race of yith, horror, hp lovecraft, innsmouth, latex, old ones, Prosthetics, short film, yog sothoth
