This has already done the rounds elsewhere, but just embedding it here for completion’s sake. A few minutes I spent with Sean on the set of the Slingers sizzle.

He was also very happy to do a little extra voice over work for us a few weeks later. Professional and delightful, working with Sean was one of the highlights of last year. Go watch Dog Soldiers again – as Sean said, “It’s still got legs…”

Aside from the ones in this post I think this is almost all the Slingers pics that have surfaced so far. Just rounding ‘em up to be tidy before I dig through to find a few more…

Sean Pertwee and Dalip Tahil as Colonel Thomas Hall and The Mark

Margo Stilley as Jeannie

Adrian Bower as DM with director Steve Barron

First day of shooting

Jeannie ready to pilot the ship

GUN in the safe hands of Tom Mison as Frank

DM and Frank

Haruka Abe as Marti

The Slingers sizzle reel is now in the hands of the digital effects guys following a tremendous shoot last week.

We had a marvelous crew who gave their all to get this just right. Steve went for every single shot and it was quite an experience seeing him in action on set. We’re very lucky to have him on board. Next week I’ll begin working on the pilot script with him to really kick it into shape.

A lot of people were tuning into what was happening via Twitter and I tried to give a feel of the shoot along with the occasional Twitpic where appropriate. We amassed a considerable amount of behind the scenes material that we’re still going through and should eventually compliment the sizzle. In the meantime I’ll tease the odd bit here and of course I have a bunch of stuff on my iPhone that I’m easily bribed into opening up if you bump into me near a bar…

I’d like to take the opportunity to thank the entire cast and crew for going the extra mile last week. We’re now working on the pilot to get it ready to shoot before the end of the year and we’re going to try our very best to use as many of the same people as possible as we take Slingers forward.

I’ll be blogging a lot more about all of this but for now I guess most people just wanna see what exactly we were up to…

Arran introducing Hakura Abe to one of the props. She plays Marti.

Sean Pertwee as Colonel Hall

Tom Mison as Frank gets to grips with GUN (more about her later)

Marti and Junior, our Mech Five

More of this to come. Just a taste to show that we mean business both with casting and design – we did use green screen where necessary, but our robot is an actual build. The plan is to have the sizzle completed in October after which we’ll arrange a couple of screenings in London, New York and L.A.

Oh, and remind me to blog about how much Sean Pertwee loves 2000AD and why he was drawn to Slingers…

Suffered through Doomsday yesterday. If ever a director showed a complete misunderstanding of the films that influenced him then it’s here for all to see. What really struck me though was the always awesome Sean Pertwee in yet another ten minute role. Someone please cast him as the next Dr Who and give the guy some regular work.

Or is that he already has a living and acting is just something he does on the side?

Director
Smashing to have you on board, Sean.

SP
Shut it. Gotta get this wrapped before lunch. Got a plastering job in Croyden to get to.