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Writer Todd Farmer Badmouths His Own Draft of ‘Clock Tower’
On B-D’s recent visit to the set of Drive Angry 3-D in Shreveport, Louisiana, the subject of the long-gestating Clock Tower adaptation came up while we were chatting it up with screenwriter Todd Farmer. Farmer, as some of you may know, wrote an early draft of the project, although his feelings on his version are less than charitable, which he blames on interference from the producers. Check out what he had to say.
“I did ‘Clock Tower’ a dozen years ago,” he told us. “As you guys know, the business is a weird business….there came a time when [if] you fought for your screenplay you basically just got fired and replaced. So ‘Clock Tower’ was during that time when everyone was scared to fight and so I didn’t fight. So my draft of ‘Clock Tower’ sucks because I wrote exactly what I was told to write and it’s horrible. There have been seven writers since then and I don’t know how good it is or anything. It’s based on Scissorman. Scissorman is terrifying. The studio at the time didn’t want Scissorman because they were afraid that he’d look silly to which my response was, ‘Well, then why did you buy this because that’s what the game is.’ But I lost that battle.”
He went on:
“I think that they were afraid that [Scissorman] would look like Edward Scissorhands and it wouldn’t, because that’s not what the game was. I don’t know where it’s at now. I’m hopeful that someone will make it because it’s a scary story but I hope they go back to the game and do that version. But I haven’t heard anything.”
There are currently no new developments on this video game adaption.
The towering Pirate Clark in Kane Parsons’ Backrooms was an almost entirely practical creation, with former basketball player Robert Bobroczkyi bringing the monstrous character to life on screen. The Romanian–Hungarian actor stands a towering 7-foot, 7″ tall, and he previously played the character known as the Offspring in Fede Alvarez’s Alien Romulus.
As Luiz H.C. noted in an article here on Bloody Disgusting last month, “Though there was some obvious CGI involved in making the character’s peg-leg and nightmarish face more believable, Robert Bobroczkyi’s monstrous performance and his natural frame helped to make that final chase sequence a clear highlight among this year’s genre offerings.”
How did they pull it all off? A behind the scenes documentary will be included on the upcoming Backrooms physical media release, and A24 is offering up a sneak peek this week.
A24 previews the footage released today, “Robert Bobroczkyi’s transformation into Pirate Clark from the exclusive making-of doc, only available on the Backrooms Blu-ray.”
“Pirate Clark is a monster. He understands his body. He knows what his powers are. What he can do. What his limitations are,” creature performer Robert Bobroczkyi explains in the clip. “So his movements and his actions are deliberate. He doesn’t just twitch for no reason.”
He adds, “The prosthetics include the two hand pieces, and then the helmet, the face, the head piece. The head’s quite heavy. You don’t see a lot out of it. But it’s really cool.”
Watch the footage below and pre-order your copy of Backrooms on Blu-ray or 4K now!
A24 is expecting to ship out Backrooms physical media orders in late August.
Robert Bobroczkyi’s transformation into Pirate Clark from the exclusive making-of doc, only available on the Backrooms Blu-ray. pic.twitter.com/yAWdscUOkD
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