Produce a big movie for just one buck

Yesterday Joel mentioned the existence of an awesome opportunity to invest in a big Hollywood movie by joining nearly 12,000 people from 70 countries to produce the 1-Second Film, an endeavor to produce a film that’s a mere 24 frames long with nearly an hour (so-far) of credits. Profits go to charity. Fantastic idea — bringing big movie profit margins to the people. Of course I signed-up immediately and if you see the 1-Second Film you’ll see me listed as an Associate Producer. You might want to do the same. In fact, if you do, we can go to the premiere together, because I’m pretty sure it’s a “producers only” kind-of event, and we probably don’t want the regular movie-going population to see the flick until we’ve sort-of put our stamp of approval on the dang thing. There might be some producer notes or edits we’ll need to give, and if that’s the case, it might involve recutting a few frames here and there. Either way, it’s great to be on board such a promising project.  The great thing about being a movie producer, I’m finding out, is that it doesn’t really take much training, experience or awareness of the actual craft of shooting on film.  What’s involved is a keen understanding of what the people want.  And what do the people want?  They want Avatar II.  I think my next project, after associate producing the 1-Second Film and before I sink my gross earnings into Avatar II, will be (finally) finishing my treatment for a remake of the Misfits of Science.