the movie made from my original screenplay SECOND SKIN
premieres on HBO this friday night at 9:30 pm Pacific
Standard Time. check your local listings.
script was originally written 10 years ago, passed thru many
directors' and producers' hands and many rewrites. finally,
the current filmmakers went back to my original first draft
and I did a production rewrite off of that. the vagarities of
modern movie making.
story concerns a guy who owns a used bookstore in a small
California beach town, and a woman who walks in looking to
start a new life. from there the plot starts twisting and
doesn't stop till the final shoe drops. movie may be a little
slow in the first 10 minutes and might have one plot twist
too many, but unlike some modern noirs, at least it was made
by people who care about the genre. it's a moody piece of
work, very dark with some terrific performances, especially
by the bad guys.
picture was shot in Cape Town, South Africa, which stood in
for Northern California and downtown Cleveland, Ohio...
remarkably well I might add. Natasha Henstridge and Angus
MacFadyen do nice work in the two leads. newcomer Liam Waite
steals the picture. Peter Fonda does an especially creepy
turn as Merv Gutman, the head of the Tanners Union.
hope those of you who bother to take a look enjoy it. feel
free to voice a negative opinion. that's how I learn. and
I've developed a very thick skin working in Hollywood.
John Lau
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