8 YEARS AFTER THE PILOT 'LE DONK' IS FINALLY MADE!
Jul 23, 2007 21:12:04 GMT
Post by shanemeadows on Jul 23, 2007 21:12:04 GMT
I have kept this a little closer to my chest than usual as every time I announce something, It tends to collapse in a great big heap of unfundable poop. I have, for the last month or so, been in discussions with Paddy (Considine) and Mark Herbert about trying to ressurect the charactor of Le Donk in some format and allow ourselves to have some proper fun before we begin writing King of the Gypsies in the Winter.
A couple of months back I was asked to get involved with shooting a film with the Artic Monkeys at their Old Trafford concert (Happening over the last weekend of July). I didn't really see myself making a concert film on a par with woodstock, so declined, but after talking to Paddy about how gutted I was that we have never made anything with the charactor of "Donk' the penny dropped and I realised that we had a golden platform for 'Le Donk' staring us in the face.
So we decided to buy 'Le Donk' a bedford rascal camper van, get him signed up as an official 'Roady' and we are about to set off to old trafford on a 5 day adventure in search of a film. We have No script, No funding and a tiny crew, but we are all buzzing about it and think the whole thing could be shot edited and ready for showing way before crimble!
We know not whether it will be a Short, a Feature or the first episode of a series, but it'll be a great crack getting back in the saddle, and if Paddy's first rehearsals are anything to go by, It should be piss funny! Rock on!!!!
A couple of months back I was asked to get involved with shooting a film with the Artic Monkeys at their Old Trafford concert (Happening over the last weekend of July). I didn't really see myself making a concert film on a par with woodstock, so declined, but after talking to Paddy about how gutted I was that we have never made anything with the charactor of "Donk' the penny dropped and I realised that we had a golden platform for 'Le Donk' staring us in the face.
So we decided to buy 'Le Donk' a bedford rascal camper van, get him signed up as an official 'Roady' and we are about to set off to old trafford on a 5 day adventure in search of a film. We have No script, No funding and a tiny crew, but we are all buzzing about it and think the whole thing could be shot edited and ready for showing way before crimble!
We know not whether it will be a Short, a Feature or the first episode of a series, but it'll be a great crack getting back in the saddle, and if Paddy's first rehearsals are anything to go by, It should be piss funny! Rock on!!!!
