The KICK ME Saga - Part Five

 Day 7:

The last Day shoot - everything else following takes place at night. We started with the Santiago Family's home.

Returned to the school - this Stedicam sequence didn't make the final cut. The tall kid on the left is Joseph Anderson (YOUNG ROCK) as an extra. He was later cast in JAYHAWKERS (his film debut) and has gone on to a successful career, obviously - and well deserved.

Chris Durr; Michael Wilson

Flashback sequence, with additional footage not in the final cut.

 Matthew Stathas (R.I.P. 2014) - Blitz

Another scene not in final cut - and there's Joe in the background!

 

The KICK ME Saga - Part Four

 Day 6:

New DP - Michael Wilson, about whom I knew nothing at the time. I remember some connection to Columbia, MO; he was a camera operator on YOU'RE NEXT and the first V/H/S (I think the wraparound story) and has gone on to bigger things (2nd unit DP on THE GREEN KNIGHT). Which would make sense - there'd be a connection to someone who was originally involved with the production, but who wasn't by the time shooting started, by my understanding. There's a reference to this producer in that Filmmaker Magazine interview, although not a name - though, looking at a story in the local weekly Pitch at the time, done as the Kickstarter campaign started, does name this person, if one is inclined to look and make inferences...

This and the following day were the school sequences, of which very little remains in the finished film - mainly Santiago & Ramone in the office. As written, the film opened with Santiago being trapped in a bathroom stall and Ramone rescuing him.

Santiago teaching class, not used in final film

Michael Wilson (Michael J. Wilson) - DP

Stuart Scott Smith (2nd set PA/Second Soldier [Randy]; Eric Rowlands (1st set PA)

This was also the church foyer for the choir presentation and the first scenes for Santiago's wife and daughter, Heather and Petal.

Elisa James - Heather

Julia Ruddy - Petal