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Originally Posted by Angra
Holy crap, Rod.
You are a co-writer on a movie that i´ve actually seen!!!
"Mammoth". It was alright. ;)
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That's the only one of the bunch that I am at all proud of. The execs at SciFi really don't like comedy in their movies. The first draft of Gryphon was a parody of every sword and sorcery story I'd ever seen. And they hated it.
BUT they kept the structure and told me to remove the comedy. That's how you get a bad movie, by nulifying the point, but keeping the plot. So then I just tried to see how bad I could make it and still get paid.
In Mammoth we actually got away with parodying every convention of the SciFi Channel Original picture. We have a scene in a diner, a gas station, a corn field, a party in the woods, pseudoscience, aliens, a big monster, decapitations, a heartfelt father-daughter talk, government agents, a town secret and references to The Blob, Evil Dead, The Day the Earth Stood Still and dozens of others.
It was still pretty weak, but at least we had some fun with it.