What's New

September 19th, 2008 - Beau and Paul have ceased operations for the year. We are within 40 pages of having a complete dialogue cut, one more week of work ought to do it. Last month we began the process of gathering sound effects. Beau traveled to Washington where he and Paul recorded most of the needed boat effects, a vintage Land Rover, most of the parang (machete) sounds, including the duel between Kardec and Jeru, and the Lacklan's ship docking at Marudi along with various "sweeteners" bits that will be used to add detail to other effects like flying bits of rock and metal for our Korea explosions. We also did blow guns and some footsteps (a LONG way to go on that one though. With luck another trip to Washington and two to Colorado may wrap it up. We expect there to be a couple of weeks of prepping dialogue tracks then we'll "freeze" them and start cutting SFX ... all that will come after the holidays.

We are debating converting this space to a facebook page ... if so you'll all be notified.

Best,
Beau, Paul, and Laurel

June 17th, 2008 - We finished work on page 117 ... more than half way through the dialogue! We're slowly working up a list of sound effects that are going to be problematic. A non amplified version of Adhan (sp?), the Islamic call to prayer tops the list. In general it's an easy effect to find ... through loudspeakers. We want the old fasioned version. That and good versions of some of the warfare stuff looks the hardest. Tanks, artillery, all that rot.

May 29th, 2008 - 40 more pages of dialogue cut and we're more than 1/3 of the way through the voice tracks. Paul is due back in the second week of June and we'll get even more done. There's only one last thing to record ... Beau, or someone, needs to learn enough French to do a bit as a radio announcer from Saigon and then (theoretically) we'll be done with all the voice recording. Anyone who wishes can drop us an e-mail or call and come by to hear a scene or two ... or grab lunch if it's that time of day (later in the day for us than most people). We hope you're all having a wonderful summer!

Check out the Jeru section and Evolution of an Adventure section of louislamourgreatadventure.com . There's a bit of the video we shot posted there.

April 24th, 2008 - Well, after a long while Beau and Paul are making up for lost time. After a week of editing we have cut the voice tracks on nearly 50 pages of the script and have two more editing sessions planned before mid Summer. With any luck that will put us more than half way through … with that part at least. This feels much faster than when we were editing Son of a Wanted Man but might actually be … Beau went off and produced the movie of Jeru right in the middle of that dialogue cut.

Everything and everyone sounds good and technically there are no real hold ups so far. We are slowly preparing to start recording sound effects. Beau now has a collection of machetes that clang and ring in different ways, an old stove fuel bottle with a metal, not plastic, screw top and we are the proud owners of an all wood canoe. It is likely that we’ll start some effects work in August when Beau is up in Washington State.

Paul will be back to edit in the middle of May and anyone who wants is invited to stop by and visit, get lunch, whatever … providing we can throw you out if we need to get back to work.

It’s terrific to still be working with all of you!

December 8th, 2007 - Okay we're a little late with this update but here goes . . . The recording session was FANTASTIC!! I can't tell you how much we enjoyed working with each and every one of our cast members. It was truly amazing. By now everyone in the cast should have gotten notice from AFTRA regarding their checks so this Holiday Season should be just that much merrier. Now comes the hardest part, the waiting. Beau and I are pretty booked up for the next month or so and I doubt we'll get much of a chance to do anything, and I do mean ANYTHING with all the great material we recorded. As you know, we both have other responsibilities which consume a great deal of our time durning this part of the year. We expect to begin working again in late January or February or as soon as we can break a week loose from both of our schedules. In the mean time, we wanted to take a moment to say "Thanks" . . . again, and to with everyone a very happy holiday season and New Year. As always, please don't hesitate to contact Laurel, Beau or myself via email or phone.

Best Wishes for a Very Merry Christmas!!

October 6th, 2007 - We have substantially completed casting and it was precisely as difficult as we expected. Now begins the process of booking and scheduling. For those of you we have not contacted, please be assured that there was no tougher decision for us to make than to choose between multiple "first choices." We truly feel that we could cast several different productions with the caliber of work you all brought to your auditions. Unfortunately we have only the one. As Beau has said, "No audition is wasted!" so know that we will keep all of you in mind as we continue our work! We will continue to update the calendar on the web site with any exciting details you may need to know and as always, please feel free to contact us directly!

We have a new section at the bottom of this page with links to some research we have done to aid the cast with "experiencing" Sarawak and character development. Please take a look.