Dorkness Is Rising on Slice of SciFi Show #090 - January 3, 2007

We have two guests for you on our next show. They are writer Matt Vancil and executive producer John Frank Rosenblum from The Gamers Dorkness Rising.

Matt Vancil (pictured 1st) is the writer and director of The Gamers: Dorkness Rising. His debut as a writer-director resulted in the wildly successful fantasy cult film, “The Gamers”, which won first place in the 2003 Gen Con Indy Film Festival and has screened worldwide. Matt is a founding member of Dead Gentlemen Productions and has served as head writer for the company since its inception in 2002. He has taught filmmaking to both high school and college student.

John Frank Rosenblum (pictured right) is an American film producer, screenwriter, and actor, who has been in the trade for over twenty-five years. He is an internationally recognized expert on motion picture trailers. He graduated from the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California and the Darlington School. Frank has produced local and national public broadcasting fund raising programming for such BBC programs as “Doctor Who”, “Eastenders”, and “Red Dwarf”, shows for which he also wrote, produced, and occasionally made character appearances. Frank also produced some episodes on “Star Trek: The Next Generation”.He is a member of the Producers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He serves as one of the executive producers for “The Gamers: Dorkness Rising.”

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Here is a brief synopsis of Dorkness Rising from Matt Vancil:

“All Lodge wants is for his gaming group to finish their adventure. Unfortunately, they’re more interested in seducing barmaids, mooning their enemies, and setting random villagers on fire. Desperate to rein in his players, Lodge injects two newbies into the distrust: a non-player character controlled by Lodge, who the power gamers immediately distrust, and the rarest gamer of all — a girl. Can the group overcome their bickering to save the kingdom, or will the evil necromancer Mort Kemnon triumph unopposed? A parody of fantasy films and the adventure gaming community, The Gamers: Dorkness Rising is a hilarious romp through the world of sword and sorcery — in this case, a world of exploding peasants, giant house cats, and undead roast turkeys. Game on!”

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In the News Segment we talk about the records being set by “Casino Royale”, what is on-tap for Star Trek New Voyages fan productions and which genre films stunk up the place in 2006.

Movie News has a nice change-of-pace as we look at a period piece set in Victorian England that examines the life of child fantasy/fable writer/illustrator Beatrix Potter. “Miss Potter” stars Renee Zellweger and Ewan MacGregor in this delightfully enjoyable film.

TV News jerks us back into the iron-clad grip of the 21st Century as Patrick Stewart and Ashley Jensen take on some of the scariest and most puzzling of today’s scientific discoveries in this “X-Files/C.S.I”-esque suspense drama called “The Eleventh Hour” now on BBC America.

The gang pile into the time machine and fast-forward to 2009 to take a look at the new Robert Rodriquez/Elizabeth Avellan production of another comic book to film adaptation “Madman”, a creation of “Red Rocket 7″ writer/illustrator Michael Allred. It will be directed by George Huang of “Swimming With Sharks.”

Doug is back with a different take on Trivia, one that we are sure you will really enjoy, and Evo is back with us before he heads out to beautiful Jamaica. Download, tune-in and listen to Slice of SciFi Show #090 due out Wednesday, January 3, 2007. We will be waiting for you right here on Slice of SciFi.