Casting Director Turns Writer : "TAG"

What do you get when you cross a futuristic sci-fi thriller, a sci-fi casting director, Final Draft Pro, and a gung-ho one-man production office?

Generally, a really bad wanna-be writer indie script.  Or...

Danny Roth, the LA-based casting director who's name sets off any sci-fi head's recognition bell, has recently released casting info associated with his latest project: Tag, a feature film that Roth's production company, Sycophant Films, is set to produce in 2009.

If you're at all filmography-OCD, a quick IMDB Pro check will show you that pensman Roth produced a short version of this script way back in '97, which makes the rebirth of the now 128-pager a bit of a head-to-side "aww" passion project.

Not quite.  The script itself is actually anything but "aww" inspiring.  It's a wonderfully dire, potentially futuristic story of a group of homeless teenagers who band together to form their own cult-like family... and a bit like any family, this one is [completely] dysfunctional.  The fatally virus-stricken "leader", Billy, eventually goes somewhat nuts and decides to try to infest the rest of the world by playing a game of "tag".  The East Village in the 70s springs to mind. 

Dark, deep, and sure to cause the quite-brownstone-street-living New Yorker to jump at shadowy passerby.

And... still casting.

-- Ashley Avis

Comments

[jim]

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It reveals
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America's greatest shame and pride, bond of friends made between the 2 greatest nations.
Nations saved from slavery.
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