Orton Socket - 99 Explosions
(Moikai)
August 17, 2001
Dear Sir or Madam:
Recently we at Fake Films have begun pre-production on a new movie that we think you may be interested in funding and distributing. The American movie-goer has, of course, two loves, the futuristic and the retro. The combination of these two elements makes for the perfect popular movie--just look at the biggest movies this summer, Planet of the Apes and Jurassic Park III, both updates of science fiction movies of the past.
We believe the next step in this series of futuristic retro is the re-telling of the 1970s disaster movie The Swarm. By rehashing The Swarm, you latch onto the sentimentality of the movie viewer, reminding them of the epic disaster movies they watched as a child--the type of movie that is unfortunately not made much anymore. However, in The Swarm, you also have great opportunity to bring the storyline back up-to-date, incorporating the fears of genetic technology and the continued destruction of the environment into the already ripe plot.
We have already contacted Michael Caine about reprising his role as Entomologist Brad Caine. The script is still under development, but a soundtrack has already been created. Preeminent cornetist Rob Mazurek, given only the vague outlines of a plot, has created an electronic album on his laptop that perfectly encapsulates the mood of the entire movie, from the lab of bumbling scientists where one mistake causes a biological war of the species all the way to the inner sanctum of the bee army, literally buzzing with plans of human destruction.
Mazurek informs us that he used the teachings of method acting in creating this album, dressing up like a bee and focusing his energy in putting the listener "in the hive" with him. As a result the music is quite small, a quiet album full of the small rumblings of technology and the primordial hum of the insects. Keeping in the futuristic-retro theme, Mazurek has used the highest levels of home-use technology to create an album that doesn't sound like it was made through the use of modern technology at all, it shows all the pristine of modern technology but doesn't show off by taking advantage of its possibilities.
The soundtrack to The Swarm is enclosed. Please note that this soundtrack will not be released as the official movie soundtrack as few people, even fans of Mazurek's cornet work, will find this soundtrack material enjoyable as music--it encapsulates the unsettling nature of this alien mutant insect world that well. For the "official" soundtrack we already have confirmations from Ja Rule and Alien Ant Farm.
Sincerely,
Jim Steed
President, Fake Films
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