Ahead of the London premier of the film in early November, Superman Requiem has been featured in December’s edition of Total Film magazine. This is incredibly amazing for two reasons:

Number one: I grew up reading Total Film. I have quite a few issues of Total Film in my collection. Throughout my teenage years it was this magazine that fed my fantasies of making films myself one day. And now I’m directly connected with a film that is mentioned in it. And that’s kind of cool to me.

Total Film is one of the most widely read film magazines in the UK and I dare say that having the film mentioned in there, as well as where people can watch it, has the power to dramatically increase the audience that Superman Requiem is going to get. It could now potentially be watched by hundreds of thousands of people. I, for one, hope so.

Although I won’t see the film until the premier, I have seen the trailer and while I wondered why nobody actually talks in the trailer, the composition of some of the shots looks very professional and given the budget we were working with here, that’s a pretty impressive result.

My next post on Superman Requiem will probably follow the London premier in about a week in Covent Garden when I’ll see the film in its entirety for the first time. I am rather looking forward to it.

I thought Marcus was being very kind to let me do a fight scene in his film. While I had attended drama school for several years in my early teens, I thought that five years of pharmacy school had more than obliterated any acting talent I might have had. You know the saying – if you don’t use it, you lose it. So I felt a certain degree of pressure to perform as well as I could.

I was introduced to fight choreographer, Steve Coleman, who ran through the fight with myself and Tony Cook, move for move. The idea was that Tony’s character, a soldier, was moving on hands and knees, out of his hiding place and that I – one of those minion bad guys in movies that just gets killed – would run in and attack him. He would punch me in the face a few times while I attempted to gore his eyes out. Then eventually, he would break my neck.

We practised. We went over it again and again. I’d like to think we improved. Unfortunately, as is often the case when filming, time was against us and we had to be off the location by six o’clock, so we went ahead and shot the scene.

After my first run through, I got a clap. This made me feel good but it’s easily possible everybody was just being polite, though I hope that my performance was satisfactory because I was giving it everything I had. For that hour, I put my personal well being aside and even got stung multiple times by nettles.

I have yet to see the finished film but I do look forward to it. And I look forward to many more days spent filming.

Directed by Adam Patel!? Well, not quite. It’s been my dream for over half of my life and while this is not necessarily the manifestation of that dream, it’s certainly a step in the right direction… Continue reading “My First Movie Credit!” »

It was the second Saturday in June when I got up excruciatingly early (0530) to catch a train to London where I was to do the first acting I’ve done since I left drama school at about 14 and had my first ever experience on a film set. It was my day on set at Superman: Requiem, a film I’d become involved with through my friend Daniella. Continue reading “Adam’s Extra Adventure” »

The trailer of the first feature film I’m involved with.

You can’t see much so far, but I think it looks promising. I’m quite excited about this.