Playstation Killed the Puppet is a new hilarious comedy film (and potential series) I am involved in. It was written by Charles Mosley and Marc Holley and directed by Charles Mosley. It is filmed in a documentary style about a world with living puppets and humans. I play one of the lead puppet character Lil’Ronnie’s friend by the name of Raj.
SYNOPOSIS
The puppet Lil Ronnie has to find another job because kids are not going to puppet shows. Ronnie has to reinvent himself though he faces discrimination because he is not human and because of his disability. This production is a spoof on American life if you have yet to get the picture.
I think this is hilarious. I am want to watch it even more now. I’ve always been a Star Trek Next Generation Fan. Not much for the other series or movies. This film looks very promising though. Man, Summer 2009 has got some great films!
PLOT
Star Trek brings Kirk and Spock center stage and tracks the origins of their friendship and how they became officers aboard the Enterprise. Other crew includes McCoy (Karl Urban), Uhura (Zoë Saldana), Scotty (Simon Pegg), Sulu (John Cho), and Chekov (Anton Yelchin). Their adventure goes from Earth to Vulcan. It also features Leonard Nimoy appearing in scenes with his younger self through a time travel subplot. The storytelling is newbie-friendly, but it slyly assimilates a wide range of Trek arcana, from doomed Captain Pike (Bruce Greenwood) to Sulu’s swordsmanship to classic lines like, ”I have been, and always shall be, your friend.” More ambitiously, the movie subversively plays with Trek lore — and those who know it.
The new Star Trek (Release 5/8/2009) is a reboot directed by JJ Abrams (LOST, Cloverfield, Mission Impossible 3).
I was cast as a business man in the comedy/drama Saddle Up with Dick Wrangler & Injun Joe. Mickey Rooney has a cameo in the movie. It is an independent Ultra Low SAG film shot in Philadelphia. My scene involved sitting on stage at an award ceremony in which the two lead characters were guests trying to sell a Sexual Enhancement drug for a pharmaceutical company. I was on stage with 10 old white men. Yeah, I fitted in perfectly. We had to laugh on cue and then look at the blue screens in which they will overlay in post production.
SYNOPSIS
A has been Cowboy and Indian television duo struggle to make ends meet.
CAST
* Tony Devon …. Dick Wrangler
* Peter Defeo …. Injun Joe
* John Wooten …. Parent
* Thomas J. McCarthy …. DrugCorp CEO
* Matthew Wolfe …. Leonard
* Tisha Tinsman …. Jason’s Mommy
* Ted Borodaeff …. Mun-Hee Parent
* Belito Garcia …. Mun-Hee Parent
* Rose Stefano …. Mama Ivankov
* Lee Farrell …. Jason
* Chad Kressler …. Carl
* Robert Gardner …. Young Dick Wrangler
* Brian Dean …. Chuck
* Michael Tamin Yurcaba …. TV Cowboy Outlaw 1
* Nicolas Torrens …. Young Injun Joe
* Joshua Luo …. Mun-Hee
* Eric Celius …. TV Cowboy Outlaw 2
A friend of mine recommend that I audition for this indie short film. It’s a short film about a young Asian struggling in his life with his dead end job and high maintenance girlfriend. It was written and directed by Joe Kim of Xploitation Films. He also runs the Philadelphia Asian Film Festival. I played an interviewee. The film premiered at 2008 Urbanworld Film Festival.
