Electric Man at the Glasgow Film Festival

The Electric Man production team headed west on Friday to attend Mark Millar's talk at the Glasgow Film Festival. Mark was there to chat about the new film of his comic Kick-Ass (featuring Nic Cage as Big Daddy, and a wee girl with a big potty mouth as Hit Girl - everyone agreed she stole the show). He also mentioned the dead straight superhero film he was planning to direct in Scotland this summer, so it seems like superheroes are in the air at the moment. Director Dave managed to catch up with Mark after the talk and he seemed very positive about our (slightly) smaller and decidedly un-straight superhero project. Meanwhile, Scott and I hit the comic and film loving crowd with our new business cards, which had arrived that very day. Everyone agrees they are particularly cute (just like Scott's smile...!) The other big news is that applications for our open casting on Friday March 5th have been coming in thick and fast. In particular there seems to be a lot of interest in the role of Jimmy - who'd have thought that so many actors want to play a complete maniac?! The venue for the casting is the Braid Room at the Pleasance, Edinburgh 10am - 4pm and it looks like we'll be busiest in the morning, so there'll be someone on duty in the Pleasance bar to take names and details and to hand out a copy of the scene to be read. It's great to get all this interest and to feel like the film is already beginning to come to life. Anyone who wants more info on the casting can check out our website or contact me or drop a line to all@strangeboat.com.

Electric Manley

It's been a week of new arrivals! First onboard was Graham Manley, a comic artist known for his work on Near Myths, Dice Man and his contributions to the Judge Dredd Megazine. Dave Barras and I met up with him at Deadhead before heading up to The Elephant House for a chat and a cuppa. The Elephant House is famous for having been one of the places that JK Rowling hung out while she wrote the first Harry Potter book, which is perhaps why our chat with Graham ranged from the juvenile to the fantastic, but we all had a lot of fun and so persuaded him to join the team and do some sketches for the Electric Man backstory (something which will form the basis of a VERY limited edition comic, and crucially, the opening titles sequence for the film). Graham showed us a few examples of his artwork, including some great fantasy comic book covers he'd drawn for the Dandy Annual and we showed him the draft comic script that tells the story of how Electric Man came to be the superhero you will all soon know and love! This bit of plot is top secret - if I told ya I'd have to zap ya - unless of course you want to sign up for one of our great sponsorship packages and help get this movie made.

The second new arrival was a week early... baby Navena Mackay! Congratulations to Scott (co-writer) and Morgane.