Number 1 When we last spoke you were covered in snow in Frozen, how do you feel about the finished product and cold experience?
FROZEN is definitely my proudest moment and the best film I’ve made so far. The horrifically difficult experience of shooting it paid off in the final product as it is quite clear in the movie that the actors are really living through the experience. They are clearly suffering from the elements, they are really stranded high up in the sky, they are going through real torrential storms, and they are truly terrified. I’m so glad that we chose to shoot it all practically as on a sound stage or against a green-screen it never would have been the same. Movie fans are too sophisticated and too smart to be fooled by cheap and phony effects, though for some reason Hollywood seems to think that they can keep getting away with that shit. I‘ve had so many industry people tell me that I was insane to shoot FROZEN the way I did and that most audiences wouldn’t be smart enough to know the difference if it had been on a nice warm stage or not. I vehemently disagree and I think that this experience shows beyond a reasonable doubt that I am willing to earn the respect of my audience, not just take it for granted and phone it in. I just recently showed the actors the finished film for the first time, and I can’t tell you what a relief it was to have Emma Bell hug me, almost in tears, and just say “thank you.” I’m so glad that they’re all proud of the film as if they had been disappointed with it, I would have been in deep, deep shit after putting them through such hell!
Number 2 The internet? What a fucked up thing huh? You get named dropped all over the net because of your videos on the net. Tell us how much fun girls with light sabers was to film and your relationship with Paul Solet who appears in your Halloween short Jack Chop.
Here you go with the whole- “OK Green, I’m just gonna ask you six questions”- but then you try to slide extra questions in and think I won’t notice. Douche! Just because of your shady question shenanigans I now won’t tell you all of the explicit details about the threesome that I had with the SABER girls and I’ll only tell you that making SABER was seriously wicked fun. Forget all of the other shit I’ve done, to make something that was nothing more than a selfish way to make my innermost geek dreams come true- and then have it literally explode on-line with well over a million hits on Youtube and my own site (www.ariescope.com)- , not to mention to have it be awarded TWO sets of Golden Droids at Comic-Con from George Lucas himself… I mean, what is cooler than that?!
"Editor note... Uhhh nothings cooler"
Oh, and I’m sure you realize that I’m kidding about the threesome. It’s common knowledge that Rileah (the Jedi) and I are engaged and that Clare (the Sith) is dating Seth Green who is going to promptly stab me in the balls for making that joke. Actually no he won’t- he’ll think it’s funny, too. Go ahead and print it. We all just went to Vegas together for Rileah and Clare’s birthday and if the threesome didn’t happen there- then it just isn’t going to happen. No group sex in this group of friends, unfortunately.
And as for Paul Solet, he’s just some derelict that I found on the streets of Cambridge eating Dunkin’s, robbing pharmacies, and shooting O.C.’s. That JACK CHOP thing we did for Halloween isn’t even a joke. It’s all true. He really is that guy. We just dressed him up and taught him how to speak properly for all of the GRACE promotional stuff he had to do. But he’s really fahkin’ retahded, kid.
Number 3 Just in time for Halloween, I am watching a cheesy horror movie every day in October, what’s your favorite Halloweenesque flick that I should watch.
My top 5 Halloween movies are: HALLOWEEN 3 (SEASON OF THE WITCH), WALT DISNEY’S LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW, TRICK R TREAT (2009), IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN CHARLIE BROWN (not a movie but still required viewing n my house every year), and JOHN CARPENTER’S HALLOWEEN.
Number 4 Last we spoke you were working on some cartoon projects, what's the deelio on that these days? Get your ass in on that new Heavy Metal movie :)
I recently was hired to write the animated AQUAMAN movie for Warner Brothers/D.C. Comics but I have no clue as to what the production status is on that. I’m told that since WONDER WOMAN didn’t perform as well as they hoped that now they are going to concentrate only on BATMAN and SUPERMAN animated films again and pass on the other characters. Maybe if GREEN LANTERN performs well it will get AQUAMAN made, but we all know that Aquaman isn’t exactly the most popular of D.C.’s characters so we’ll have to just wait and see. I just have to move on and hope for the best. I really liked that project though. A lot.
Number 5 What’s next for you, simple as that, what's next for Mister Green?
Well I just finished FROZEN a week ago and now I have several months of appearances and promoting to do between now and FROZEN’ winter theatrical release. But because I like to burn the candle from at least four or five different ends and because I hate sleeping or having any sort of personal life, I have also already begun work on a TV pilot called COFFEE & DONUTS (based on my life and my first indie film of the same title) which I will be writing, directing, producing, and starring in. We’re making it like how they make CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM where it’s going to be a lot of improv type stuff. My co-star is Joe Lynch (WRONG TURN 2 director) who starred with me in the ten ROAD TO FRIGHTFEST shorts that we made together over the last two years. More news on that is coming once the network makes their own official announcement, so right now that’s all I can offer up for details. It’s just a pilot right now- so who knows if it will even get a full series pick up or ever make it to air. I don’t expect any answers on that until early next year, but we shoot it in a few short weeks so I am in crunch time. There’s also a bunch of big projects that I am in talks for and considering, not to mention that whole HATCHET sequel that everyone is waiting for.
Number 6 Well gotta say it Hatchet 2... yeah yeah blah blah... well what's the update? Victor Crowley is still weeping in the woods.
HATCHET 2 is going to have to shoot next year with or without me. The powers that be have waited very patiently for my schedule to clear and for me to be ready, but at this point it’s in everyone’s best interest (and the fan’s interest) to get it underway. Trust that I so very much want to be the one in the driver’s seat if I can be. I owe it to the fans that made the first one such a success and essentially made my career take off. But until I can figure out how to clone myself, there’s just no way I can be in so many places at once and do a good job. I’m in very serious talks about returning to HATCHET and my team, my reps, and I are doing everything we can to make the other projects work around it. If I come back I want to come back with a vengeance- not as a side project that’s rushed between my bigger ones. I’d rather pass the torch and threaten the new guy’s life not to fuck it up than be the one who makes a half-assed HATCHET 2. Again, we shall see. And on this one- we shall fortunately see very, very soon.
Well Adam again Thanks in Advance , your more then just a guy with a cool name, and yes I know my questions are several questions in one, oh and P S my girlfriend says after watching Jack Chop she says she wants to kiss Paul and if he is available.... I don’t know .... she just stole the keyboard.
Paul Solet’s got a girl he’s sweet on right now, but like I said- he’s a Boston accent speaking, Jack Chop wielding, homeless dude in real life- so offer him up some Dunkin Donuts, take him to Cumberland Farms, buy him some Strawberry Quick, and help him score some vicodin and I think your girlfriend has got a fighting chance to not only catch Paul, but also crabs.
Editor note: Well Thanks again Adam, I feel oddly itchy, aaanyways everyone Check out http://www.ariescope.com/ for Greens videos and check out the American Douchebags in London, sooo well done.
