Loading Screen Productions
presents

"Disputed"

CrasH & The Fury

Red Fury Entertainment

Loading Screen Productions
 

 This is where it all begins.  "Disputed" our first film ever, well, almost ever.  See, way back when, I made a very short piece called "Extinguishing the Light" for a religion class at the University.  Sure, I got an A on the project, but it was a piece of crap.  I mean, seriously.  I wanted to videotape my efforts to start a cult at the university, but the professor said "no."  She said we could dramatize such efforts, so, we did, but unscripted, so as to still get a feel for what it'd be like to actually start one.  And, it was surprisingly easy...scary even.

Anyway, that piece of crap aside, we move on to our first "real" film, "Disputed."  For those who don't know, the University of Georgia has, as far as we know, the first collegiate dodgeball league in the world, and that's because the Fury and I founded it.  In the year 2000, we were officially recognized as a sport at UGA and were granted a small amount of government funding for it.  We played full contact, without any gear.  Since then, the league folded, but before it did, the Fury and I had the idea to make a movie, a fictionalized drama/sports film of the account of the UGA Deathball (that's what we called it) League.  For those who think I'm full of it, check out www.deathball.org.  The site hasn't been updated since 2002 or 2003, but it's there.

Disputed--"A movie about a movie that tried to get made, but never got finished."

Disputed Title Screen
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Disputed teaser--long
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Box Art
(Click for trailer for what "Disputed" actually became.)

So, the film.  Originally, it took us about 6 months just to write it.  We like pro-wrestling and therefore integrated many characteristics into it, such as a faction forming to threaten the league, a good faction forming to represent and defend the league, a new and very brutal match type [Rage in the Cage] being developed to contain the battle that would ensue, and the drama of my ex-girlfriend coming back to be commissioner (which really did happen).  And all the characters in the film are played by their real-life counterparts. 

The problem here, as you've no doubt guessed by now, is that we needed more than two people to make this film, but people kept flaking out on us and two, CrasH and the Fury, are all we could get.  So, we sat down one night and talked about the film, unscripted.  We'd talk about the scenes we had shot, then talk about the scenes that should be showing (the ones we couldn't shoot because people kept flaking on us), and just generally bitching that no one came to help when they said they would.  Then we recorded a commentary track for the DVD.  However, our set up at the time wouldn't let us hear the actual soundtrack to the film, and about 60% of it was unscripted.  So we're trying to comment about what we're saying in the film, except we have no clue what we're saying.  This is where the feature of the film really is.  You'll have to buy the DVD if you want to hear us talking about Coke cans, guitars, people flaking, the meaning of life, and things we learned about how to make a movie that could save you a lot of heartache in making your first movie.