Jimmy Joe and the BOX
Jimmy Joe and the BOX: The Motion Picture
In early 1997, I decided to take my original Jimmy Joe story and churn a full length, live action motion picture out of it. Initial planning began on 30 January 1997, and a year later, we began production. However, it was soon canceled. Deciding that it was still too early to begin filming, I took the film, tore it apart and rebuilt it. I rewrote nearly every scene and added a ton of new stuff to the movie. I'm still planning to put this movie out someday, but it's still not quite ready.
The original plans were to pretty much follow the story precisely. But then I decided that there wasn't really much to the story to convert to film. So, therefore, scenes had to be added, and what there was to the story was to be revamped and put onto a larger scale. For example, the simple two lines from the story describing Jimmy Joe's capture by the box went:
"One time Jimmy Joe looked into the box and saw swirls of colors, like the toilet bowl after Dad was finished using it. Jimmy Joe was immediately sucked in with a Shhwuuuumpt sound."
That simple excerpt resulted in a stack of almost fifty pieces of paper consisting of scripts, rewrites, designs, blueprints, and storyboards for that single scene when converted into the movie.
The movie turned out to be a serious undertaking. I had to design, script, construct, cast, and direct all of it. I had little help. No one would help with the designing, or the scripting. My cast members kept quitting or wouldn't take it seriously. It was a mess. The main character in one scene couldn't go one shot without cracking up and wasting valuable time and film. Two and a half hours equaled to less than five minutes of footage that I was very unhappy with anyway. Nothing was how I wanted it. It was a mess even when you picked the best takes out of it.
Jimmy Joe and the BOX: The Motion Picture was, at its conception, planned as a big comedy, but over time, I shifted to a more dramatic film. The reason was simple. Comedy was to hard. I wanted the movie to be strong, and not be weighed down by dumb jokes and running gags. I wanted the film to be moving. I wanted the audience to get a better feel for Jimmy Joe, to feel with him. The pain of being stolen from home, the pleasures of omnipotence, and the happiness of being able to do whatever he pleases.
Someday I hope to get this film into production. Right now I have Shumi-Shumi Man VI to worry about, but once I finish that this summer, I plan to get back to work on Jimmy Joe.
Also in the works is a follow-up movie, but lately I've been thinking of possibly combining both films to make one long epic production. Ya never know.
This film currently in Pre-Production
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