It was bound to happen.

Yes, this Saturday is the first day of filming the remake/sequel (could be either) of "One Shot", a film that I worked on as co-director and editor at the New York State Summer School for the Arts last July.
The basic premise of five young men playing russian roulette is the same, as are most of the characters, but we will delve further into the reasons why these young men are playing this game and how their lives are affected by it.
This time there is a screenplay, and (a first for this director) a full storyboard. There is also a considerable amount of dialogue (much better audio this time around) and more locations, even a brand-spanking-new ending that promises to surprise.
All your old favorites will return, and by that I mean myself and Ben Rutkowski will reprise our original roles as the Nihilist and the Junkie, respectively. The production value will be considerably higher, as will the quality of the sound and image as we are shooting on a brand-new GL-2 with 2.40:1 widescreen. The lighting will not change at all, though, because frankly I liked the look of the original and I want to maintain that grainy look that many reviewers complained about (perhaps even enhancing it), gleefully annoying them in the process.
The film should be finished by sometime the following week, for I've decided to bask in senior-itis and devote my time to this project instead of school. Take that, academics!
So keep an eye out for "One Shot- Part Duex" (working title) on studentfilms sometime I suppose in December, and remember-
It could be loaded!

vous sucez à la traduction,
Conor Stratton

good luck!

cool, can't wait to see it. i enjoyed the first one, i thought the premise was origonal, unique and scary. looking forward to seeing more reasons why they're playing / fleshing out the characters etc.

break a leg

did you get permission from the other filmmakers involved?

Yeah, conor, this is MIKE and I say this sucks! Make a sequil, that still sucks but at least your not screwing the rest of us over! I say NO to remake idea. It inconsiderate and you never asked the rest of us. Look what you did you got me to join the site again just to answer this post!!! First of all you are doint it to soon and without us orig. people! Just move on and do something new, jeesh! DAMN!!!!! I am not liking this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like Shhiitt cuz ur remaking a film i paid to have on here for all of us! Do you even care about what other people think????????????????????????????

dont expect anymore posts by 35mm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(formerly - bigmovie)

ive gota agree, i dont think it is very nice of you to just make a remake and not tell the people involved or ask for their approval/blessing. i hold much less respect for you now!

actually, I was a co-director of the original and along with ben rutkowski came up with the original concept so technically it's my project as well (bigmovie was in the room at the time and wanted it to be a musical). And I already contacted jack durnin, gabriel goss, and ben rutkowski and got their approval, along with most of the NYSSSA program, and am awaiting a majority approval so I can remake it. Don't knock it unless you know it, friend. Mike is failing to realize several points, one of which is mentioned above as to asking the others, and the other being the fact that I would pay for the finished product to be posted. Mike needs to chill out. If he wanted to remake One Shot I wouldn't have a problem with it in the least, but the fact of the matter is that he's overreacting. If the only way to keep from Mike hounding me for the rest of my life is to make it a sequel, then I'll do that (it would work without changing the characters anyway). Otherwise I advise him to respect the fact that I'm making a movie that I believe in and will devote the best of my time and energy to. If you want proof that this film is indeed different and original, then here you go, I'm posting the already copywritten screenplay, if only for the sake of peace.

ONE SHOT (PART DEUX)
written for the screen by Conor Stratton
based on a film by Jack Durnin, James Diaz, Gabriel Goss, Ben Rutkowski, Conor Stratton, and Michael Karelis

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

Four young men stand in various locations around a laundry room. They all stand distant from each other, detached and not speaking. All of them have their own persona that they exude from even something as simple as their clothing. There is a JOCK, in a green polo shirt and khaki shorts; an OUTCAST, dressed in plain dark jeans and a grey t-shirt with TEH on it; a GOTH, in all black with various goth-like accessories, piercings and pale skin.
And then there is the NIHILIST, dressed in black pants and a white t-shirt. His hair is messy and uncombed, he smokes a cigarette. Nobody is speaking, until:

JOCK
So when's he getting here?

OUTCAST
The note said 1 o'clock.

GOTH
You got a note?

OUTCAST
Yeah. Didn't you?

GOTH
Nah, he just came up and told me.

OUTCAST
Guess he didn't want to be
seen talking to me or something.

JOCK
Have you guys ever done this before?

OUTCAST
No. You?

JOCK
No.

GOTH
I did, once, but I'm pretty
sure it was empty.

OUTCAST
Party thing?

GOTH
Yeah.

JOCK
So what... like, what happens
if somebody gets it?

NIHILIST
We book.

This is the first thing he's said all night to any of them. They all turn to him.

JOCK
That's it? We don't try
to stay or help or anything?

NIHILIST
Nothing to help. If someone
gets it, we all leave, out the
door, go our separate ways. If
anyone asks, we were asleep.

OUTCAST
What about roommates?

NIHILIST
Handle them yourself.

OUTCAST
How?

NIHILIST
How the **** should I know?

They're all quiet.

GOTH
Have you ever done this before?

NIHILIST
Once.

GOTH
How many players?

NIHILIST
Six.

GOTH
Jesus.

OUTCAST
Man...

JOCK
God.

GOTH
Who got it?

NIHILIST
I dunno, who gives a ****?
You play this game with six
players you know one of you
isn't leaving the room.
After that it's just a
question of who.

GOTH
What'd you do?

NIHILIST
I booked. We all did.
(beat)
It's the same if no one
gets it.

JOCK
How do you do it?

OUTCAST
What do you mean?

JOCK
I mean, like... where do
you point it?

GOTH
There's no right or wrong way.
Just make sure that if it goes
off, it doesn't hit any of us.

OUTCAST
Ditto.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY ALLEY- NIGHT

A lone figure in a big jacket walks down the street, smoking a joint. It is the JUNKIE. He has long hair, bags under his eyes. His hands are deep in his pockets, and he is looking around nervously. As he passes a doorway, a hand reaches out.

WINO
Hey...

The junkie, startled and terrified, jumps back, whips out a black revolver, and points it at the owner of the hand. The wino who the hand belongs to presses himself against the doorway, scared almost as much as the junkie is.

WINO
****, man, don't shoot!
I just wanted a quarter, man,
don't ****in kill me!

JUNKIE
(scared, wide-eyed)
It's okay. It's okay.

The junkie puts the gun back into his jacket, and stares down the wino before he walks briskly away.

JUNKIE
(to himself, whispering)
It's okay. It's okay.

WINO
Jesus. ****ing kid.

EXT. NEW YORK CITY STREET- NIGHT

The junkie walks down through a garage, into a basement. He knocks on the door six times.

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

The four inside turn to the door. The jock goes over to the door, and hesitantly opens it. The junkie walks in, and he and the jock share a look before the jock closes the door and locks it.

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

The five people stand inside as the junkie takes off his jacket and throws it on the ground.

JUNKIE
We all here?

OUTCAST
Yeah.

JUNKIE
Good. Alright, let's get to it.

The junkie takes out the revolver, and places it on a small table. Everyone except the nihilist and the junkie rush towards it and stare. It's black, with a taped handle. Very plain, yet very dangerous.

JOCK
Woah.

OUTCAST
Yeah.

The junkie walks over to the nihilist, and lights a joint.

JUNKIE
Don'tcha want to see it?

NIHILIST
I'll see it eventually.

Back to the gun crowd.

JOCK
I had one, back home.

OUTCAST
Where'd you live?

JOCK
Upstate, Middletown.

OUTCAST
I've been there. Nice in the fall.

JOCK
Yeah... it was a rifle, though,
a .22, not this. What is this?

JUNKIE (O.S.)
.44.

JOCK
(in awe)
.44.

GOTH
It's huge.

OUTCAST
Bet it's heavy.

JOCK
We'll find out soon enough.

NIHILIST
Alright, circle up!

They do.

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

The nihilist stands at the table the gun is on, and the others all stand around him.

NIHILIST
Okay, you all know the rules,
one shot, five people. We're
all here for different reasons.
Under no circumstances will anyone
talk about what we're doing
in real life. I'm going to
give each of you a chance to
back out right now, leave,
under the conditions that
you do not speak of this to anyone.
Nothing will happen to you.
(beat)
So is anyone leaving?

No one moves.

NIHILIST
Good.

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

Open on the gun in someone's hands, we pan up to see that it is in the hands of the goth. The goth stares straight into the camera, and looks back down.

INT. GOTH'S APARTMENT- NIGHT

The goth looks down at a middle-aged woman who looks as if she's just been hit hard flop on the floor, his face emotionless. He looks up at his drunken father who hit her.

GOTH DAD
C'mon, boy, pick her
back up for me.

The goth looks at the old man, and back down at the woman.

GOTH (V.O.)
Because I couldn't watch it anymore.

POV SHOT- CAMERA'S EYE VIEW

The goth stares straight down at us, and picks up the gun.

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

The goth, gun barrel to his temple, shuts his eyes. Close up of his closed eyes, stark lighting. Everyone is watching. He pulls the trigger, and there is a sharp crisp CLICK. The goth's eyes open and he looks around the room, a look of euphoria on his face. He smiles a bit and hands off the gun to the jock. The jock holds the gun and stares at it a bit, tracing the edges with his fingers, before putting it against his temple, then, changing his mind, in his mouth.

GOTH
(whisper, to outcast)
He wants an open-casket funeral.

The jock looks at us, again straight into the camera, photo-ID like.

INT. SCHOOL- DAY

The jock, moving through school hallways in time-lapse, he looks like he's barely moving and everyone else is a blur. Again, an emotionless face. Random faceless popular girls kiss him and everything becomes blurry, shaking.

JOCK (V.O.)
Because nothing was real.

INT. BASEMENT LAUNDRY ROOM- NIGHT

The jock pulls the trigger and it goes click, he almost throws up but gratefully hands it off to the junkie.

Junkie's flash is something drug related, he doesn't get a rush anymore. He thinks about it a second, then pulls the trigger as if he's injecting something into his temple. There is a flash of him about to inject something. Click, he exhales shakily, and the nihilist grabs the gun.

then the nihilist, whose flash is him beating up someone outside a church possibly a priest(?). he looks up at the church and spits on it, tries to look defiant but it doesn't mask his nervousness. He walks away, quickly, and then starts running. He pulls the trigger, and there is no reaction. His eyes are dead. He hands the gun to the outcast.

the outcast's flash is sitting in a busy cafeteria, which fades into an empty cafeteria, which fades into grayscale. "Because I don't know why I'm here." Then the outcast looks up, and sees a girl with an amazing smile walk by, she's in full color. The outcast smiles a little, and she disappears. The outcast looks up. He's back in the basement, the gun to his head. He looks around and realizes that he doesn't want to be here.

OUTCAST
I can't do this.

GOTH
What?

JOCK
This is bull****.

The nihilist looks on from behind his smoke.

OUTCAST
I'm sorry, I just... I
don't want this.

The junkie looks nervous, and there is a quick pan from the junkie to the nihilist.

NIHILIST
We all did this. We gave
you a chance to leave, you
didn't take it. Now you're
involved. Pull the trigger.

OUTCAST
No.

The nihilist stands up and walks towards the outcast. The jock, the junkie, and the goth all look around nervously.

NIHILIST
Pull the trigger.

The outcast points the gun at the nihilist, terrified.

NIHILIST
You point that gun at me, there's
still a chance it's gonna go click.

OUTCAST
Stand back.

NIHILIST
If it does, you'd better hope
you can pull the trigger again
before I get to you.

OUTCAST
Leave me alone!

NIHILIST
So the big question right now is
what's better- 50/50, or man to man? Reject your life, your vague sense of danger and right and wrong and stare down the barrel of something real. **** God, **** love and ideals and get the homo sapiens rush.

OUTCAST
I won't.

JOCK
Pull the trigger.

OUTCAST
No.

GOTH
Pull the trigger.

OUTCAST
No.

The outcast has tears in his eyes.

NIHILIST
(exploding, rushing forward)
Pull the ****ing trigger!

He does, brings the gun up to point at the nihilist's face and pulls the trigger. The nihilist stops short in his tracks, stumbles, a quick tear jumps out of his eyes.

NIHILIST
(fast, scared, desperate)
No--

Nothing happens, the gun just goes click, and the nihilist and the outcast stare at each other. Everyone starts leaving, the junkie first.

JUNKIE
(quietly)
I'll get the gun back tomorrow.

The goth follows soon after, then the jock, and finally the outcast. The nihilist stands there as the outcast leaves, and stays inside, all alone. The door closes and he looks down at the gun, defeated.

INT. BASEMENT HALLWAY- NIGHT

The outcast walks away from the room, camera focused only on his face. He has a look of hope, quiet hope, but hope nonetheless, on his face.

NIHILIST (V.O.)
Because I'm scared of believing.

There is a flash of light from inside the room, underneath the door, and a loud gunshot, the sound of a body falling. The outcast whirls, and looks at the door. He pauses, doesn't move for a minute, then turns and walks away, back out into the world.

THE END

There. Happy, Mike? For god's sake I hope you care as much about this film as I do.

the way i find out with you postin it on here and not teling me first is kinda like a bullet to the knee. im at vertigo! spinning all around and not makin much sense. i wouldent want u making this w/o my permission so here it is, since ur gona already:

permission


there, go make it, jeesh.



i need a hug!

oh yeah, dont expct more posts from me, this is just a one day thing. for now.

yeay... that hug thing... thats only for you female filmmakers. go away creepy big biker dudes!!! sry, biker dudes r cool, but they r scary!

absolutely freaking brilliant script.

Thanks, titaniumdoughnut, that's in an intensely cool thing to say! And thank you, Mike. The fact is I was going to contact you and I posted beforehand in the excitement of this project coming together so quickly, sorry about the conflict. I promise that I'm going to do justice to the original film, make the daddies proud. Peace.

so, is the original on this site? i want to see it now. i'll go look.

great script, it'll come out much better than the first one. have you found a goth yet?

Let the record show that I fully approve of this film being made and I can't wait to replay my role as the junkie....this time with out having to face the 1 in 2 odds.....Conor, you are a master, kudos.



-Ben

yes, I've found a goth, also found the jock as well. They're both perfect for the parts, and I have no doubts that they can pull it off. Thanks for the support, zimmerfidget, and thank you Ben, I promise I'll make all this madness worth it.

the one shot remake is in good hands. no worries!

this is the last post that I will ever do as 35mm so do not believe any new ones because they are not really me. this being the only place a non-member can leave a comment in the forums on the entire site I got to say this here.

i don't want to say anything important now. it is important that as a site we all get along. it is important that as filmmakers we all get along. it is more important that as human beings we all get along. i am on a vacation from the fourums. i was first brought back when the surprizing, but now pleasing news of the remake of one shot was posted. i continue to keep an eye out even though I took a break from the forums because a lot of people i know are sending in films and a lot of my films are being posted this month or next.

i realize people may not see this post. those that do, would you like BIGMOVIE back? I am not ready just yet, but im feeling an urge to defend the site. I am just wondering what you think. please email me. you can find my email in the reviews of peoples films. you should be able to figure out which is me.


MY FILMS:

mad man ultimate trailer - nov. 24

yesterday - dec. 1

locked in - dec.8

congrats on reaching the 2000 member mark. thats a great start. we can never have enough members!!!

BIGMOVIE, comeback!!!

You are a very insightful filmmaker with great information to share. I think the community would appreciate you posting again.

what happened to this one?

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Originally posted by 35mm:
dont expect anymore posts by 35mm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

quote:

Originally posted by 35mm:
dont expct more posts from me, this is just a one day thing. for now.

quote:

Originally posted by 35mm:
this is the last post that I will ever do as 35mm

I'll just let the above speak for itself.