Stephen Furst movie

[OmahaStar]

A quick reminder for folks ... Basilisk: The Serpent King, a movie directed by B5's Stephen Furst (and starring one son, with music by his other son!) will be making its debut this Saturday, 11/25, on the Sci Fi channel, at 9 pm Eastern.

It will repeat at 1 am Eastern.

A preview of this movie was shown at Dragon*Con this year. It's totally cheesy and totally fun.





Jan, I wasn't sure if this would be considered on topic for B5, since it was Stephen ... if it's not, please move it.

[AaronB]

Originally Posted by OmahaStar

A quick reminder for folks ... Basilisk: The Serpent King, a movie directed by B5's Stephen Furst (and starring one son, with music by his other son!) will be making its debut this Saturday, 11/25, on the Sci Fi channel, at 9 pm Eastern.

It will repeat at 1 am Eastern.

A preview of this movie was shown at Dragon*Con this year. It's totally cheesy and totally fun.





Jan, I wasn't sure if this would be considered on topic for B5, since it was Stephen ... if it's not, please move it.

I'd rather watch him in Animal House as Flounder than watch another SciFi Channel Monster Animal of the week movie. But YMMV

[AmyG]

I have to say, his last one was horrible -- no fault of the directing, mind you. It wasn't even cheesy enough fun to be watchable. That was the dragon one, with all of the flaming peasants being flung around.

[grumbler]

Given that IMDB is crediting "Louie Myman" as the director, I don't think Stephen liked what the SciFi Channel did with his director's cut.

[Joe Nazzaro]

I was thinking the same thing. A director basically has to use a pseudonym to retain his DGA rights, but it usually means they're pretty unhappy when they take their name off it. Personally, I thought there were a few bits and pieces that were fun, but a couple of the actors (including our own Mr. Furst) seemed like they were in their own film. But I think Basilisk added a brand new category to all future bad award shows: best gratuitous striptease by a giant reptile.

[OmahaStar]

Horrible, horrible, horrible.

Ugh. No way am I watching that crapola again. ugh!

[AmyG]

Originally Posted by Joe Nazzaro

best gratuitous striptease by a giant reptile.

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I may have to catch a rebroadcast. That's just...mind-boggling!

[Joseph DeMartino]

Originally Posted by grumbler

Given that IMDB is crediting "Louie Myman" as the director, I don't think Stephen liked what the SciFi Channel did with his director's cut.

As far as I know, if Louie Myman was credited as the director, then that's the name of the person who directed the film. Unlike writers, directors who want to take their names off a film are not free to choose any pseudonym they want. Under the terms of the Directors Guild contract with the studios the only name that can be substitued for a director's actual name for screen credit is "Alan Smithee". Any production entity that is signatory to the DGA Minimum Basic Agreement (which means pretty much anybody in the U.S. and Canada, and many elsewhere) or to local union contracts that involve recipricol recognition of union contracts from other countries would be bound by this provision.

It may be that Furst only acted in that one.

Regards,

Joe

[OmahaStar]

Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino

As far as I know, if
It may be that Furst only acted in that one.

Regards,

Joe

He said at D*C he'd directed it, and had a cameo.

[AmyG]

Originally Posted by Joseph DeMartino

As far as I know, if Louie Myman was credited as the director, then that's the name of the person who directed the film.

I hate to give Wikipedia any credit for being right on anything, but if Jan's info from them is solid, I'd believe this is a pseudonym. It just sounds fake, like: "Louie! My man!" Ya know?

Also, when I was speaking of Furst as director, I was referring to that crappy dragon pic that SciFi put on a few years ago, the one that was filmed in eastern Europe, and which IMDb.com reminds me was called "Dragon Storm." (I just think of it as "that flaming peasants film.") That's one I remember him talking about at Dragon Con, and he even brought some clips from it. Lucky us.