Here’s a film I wrote and produced (and did 2nd unit direction) in film school, back in 1996, called The Imminent Krunch.
It started, like most of my films, as a scene that popped into my head one day, while I was starting film school fall 1995. I was working as a projectionist at a local movie theater, had the idea and immediately told someone I was working with. From there, I wrote a short story that got me a B in my Creative Writing class (I called that Kaptain’s Krunch), then adapted it into a short screenplay.
I pitched it to Grant A. Balfour to direct–he was a fellow student who had directed his own film, and co-starred in a short I did called The Big Mess (1995). Anyway, we made and released the film film in 1996, and it was the start of our long-time film collaboration. We’ve made a lot of films since then, even if Grant only did the music for it, but usually he co-writes most of my scripts with me.
One little bit of trivia… I came up with the names via breakfast cereal. Mark Krunch is Cap’n Crunch; Bucky is Lucky Charms; Sonny is Sonny the Cocoa Puffs bird (he goes cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, just as Sonny goes insane); and Marty/Martin Tricks is named after the Trix Rabbit (he is always denied, like the character).
