Girls Will Be Girls 2012

GWBG Needs Your Remote Cameos More Than Evie Needs A Martini.

sageun — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:12:46 -0700

”Whats wrong? Did my glass eye roll back?”

No Evie… your glass eye did not roll back but there is one tiny issue. But no worries because you, the fabulous fans of GWBG can help! The good people who are working hard to bring you more GWBG are missing a few of the remote Cameos that were sent in as part of our Kickstarter campaign. The files that were originally sent in have gone the way of Evie’s acting career, several of Coco’s unborn babies, and Varla’s metabolism. They seem to be gone…but we simply cannot wait to get your pretty faces (or whatever it is you filmed) into the sequel, so if you filmed material for “Girls Will be Girls”, please do us a solid and send the video files to bestcostumefortheday@hotmail.com at soon as you possibly can, but also at your convenience…but much more so as soon as you possibly can. Videos can be uploaded through Google Drive (the simplest approach in my humble opinion) or sent through https://www.wetransfer.com

These are a few names we would love to see the Cameos from:

Jared Norman (Ruby Bouche) and Daniel Wheeler (Kentucky Fried Williams)

Razmigna Dfemme

Jennifer Tristian

And somebody with the email of Sgabberry

Thank you all so much for your help and please do not hesitate to email me at Bestcostumefortheday@hotmail.com if you have any question or concerns.

- Team GWBG

It’s Huge!

chardday — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:15:15 -0800

It’s Huge!

Money Cruise and Cock Holmes Split?!?

evie-harris — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:28:00 -0700

Jesus! No sooner had I peeled my vomit-stuck cheek from the kitchen floor and poured myself another dog of the dog that bit me than I see Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have gotten divorced! You could have knocked me over with a feather, or just waited a few seconds for me to pass out again!

I never understood those two. I mean, he’s obviously straight or else how do you explain the two children he adopted with Nicole Kidman? And we know she loved him because it was in their contract. Still whenever either of them started talking about the other my head would feel like it’s about to explode, like it always does. Finally I figured out a little system that helped me make sense of things:

Every time Tom talks about Katie, just substitute all references to Katie with the word “cock.” And every time Katie talks about Tom, just substitute all references to Tom with the word “money.” But I should warn you right now, this only becomes funnier and funnier the longer you do it, and never gets old.

Anyhoo, see for yourself:

TOM:

It was an explosion! And cock is just magic. When you find that one cock, you should be unabashed about it. That’s how I feel about cock.

KATIE:

From the moment I met money, it just felt like I’d known it forever.

TOM:

I can’t even articulate it, to be honest. That feeling, that connection. Just what cock is and what it means to me.

KATIE:

I’ve found the money of my dreams.

TOM:

When cock walks into the room, I just feel better.

KATIE:

Money is the most incredible thing in the world.

TOM:

What cock and I have is very special.

KATIE:

You have to know money… First of all, money doesn’t put pressure on people.

TOM:

I’m just very happy, and I have been since the moment I met cock.

KATIE:

Money makes me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world.

TOM:

I keep looking at cock and thinking, ‘cock is amazing.’

KATIE:

I love calling money husband.

TOM:

And I’d think the same of cock even if it wasn’t with me — cock is just amazing.

KATIE:

Money and I try not to go for a week without seeing each other.

TOM:

Every night before we go to sleep, cock and I look at each other and it’s like, ‘How’d we do today?’

KATIE:

Money is the most incredible stuff. It’s so generous and kind, and it helps so many people, and, um, it makes me laugh like I’ve never laughed, and it’s a great friend.

TOM:

I don’t sleep much and I like adventures. I wanna do. Let’s get it goin’, you know? And that’s cock.

KATIE:

It’s a pleasure and a privilege to be with money.

TOM:

I wanted a cock you could share everything with.

KATIE:

Money and I will always be in our honeymoon phase.

TOM:

I know I’m with the cock I want to spend the rest of my life with.

Of course, the one time this doesn’t work is when they’re talking about Suri. In those cases, no matter who’s speaking just substitute “Suri” with the word “me.”

Say hello to Marion Street, our remote-cameo poster girl. She...

chardday — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:49:35 -0800

Say hello to Marion Street, our remote-cameo poster girl. She comes to us from Australia, and is one of many of you who will be featured in various sections of GWBG 2012.

I am actually just getting to that part of the movie now, which will entail checking to make sure I have all of the cameos that were sent, no doubt finding there are some I didn’t download or can’t find, and then with my luck that the file sending service link is expired. Even if it all goes well we still have to get releases from everyone, as well as addresses where we can send the posters.

So… watch this space and check your email, for requests that you do something you either already have done or should have been asked to months earlier!

Thanks again for taking the time everyone. And if anyone still wants to do this, it’s not too late(!)

New Jack Plotnick (Evie) video on Playbill.com

mwtalent — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 21:26:05 -0800

New Jack Plotnick (Evie) video on Playbill.com

Lighting/CG/everything ace Billy Brooks catches Varla between...

chardday — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:27:43 -0800

Lighting/CG/everything ace Billy Brooks catches Varla between setups

Additional shooting day 2

chardday — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 10:59:00 -0800

Well today someone was almost killed, sorta-kinda.

For the past few months I have been working nonstop on GWBG 2012 — first editing like mad to make the Sundance-rejects-us-anyway deadline, and then, once that was revealed to be impossible, getting the new material ready for these reshoots. In the process a lot of my usual pastimes have fallen away, for instance retiring into the living room at night to ~~drink alone in the dark~~ read. Over time at least one of the dogs decided this meant the living room was “outside” and started peeing in there, which I noticed one day when there was liquid under some decorative glass olive oil shipping containers I keep on the fireplace. There is also a light switch I never use nearby that I didn’t even know controls an electrical outlet on my fireplace I also never use until our amazing new volunteer Garrett tried to turn on the house lights as night fell. He hit that light switch thinking, wildly, that it would turn on lights. Instead the entire fireplace started vibrating as the hidden dog pee pooled between the electrical outlet and the olive oil container sitting on it became charged, and then transferred that charge to everything around it — ending quite dramatically with the olive oil bottle breaking. No one was hurt, though the room was full of an acrid smoke for a time comprised of whatever chemicals went into the manufacture of glass a hundred years ago for us all to breathe. I’m sure we’ll be fine!

We got all sorts of great material yesterday. All we’re getting are little scenes here and there that either clarify a story point or repair a production lapse on my part the first time around, for instance close-ups with the wrong eyeline and zzzzzzzzz. Anyway I’ve gone from cautiously optimistic to dangerously overconfident, because the new stuff is turning out really well.

More tomorrow…

Additional shooting day 1

chardday — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:21:48 -0800

Today was the first of four days of additional shooting for GWBG2012. Everyone kept saying “can you believe it’s been a year…” and I would bristle and correct them that it had only been ten and a half months. But yes, there’s no excuse for taking this long to finish a little drag movie.

It was a lot of fun, all of us together again. We never had a wrap party because ~~we’re really cheap~~ there aren’t enough of us to fill a party. Also: Not all of us were back together. Some of our old crew got jobs (whatever those are) since last time. And there are no Coco scenes in the new material, so Clinton wasn’t here either.

Clinton did however record the new GWBG theme song with Jeffrey and Jack over at the composer’s studio this evening, so no one was completely left out.

The scenes themselves were fun, but unfortunately no one was accidentally killed so there’s not much to report. Or maybe there were interesting stories unfolding all around me and I’m just a really bad blogger. I don’t really know what to look for. It’s a weird experience making these films. I wake up and make coffee and do my little routines and then suddenly a small horde descends on my place. You can’t beat the convenience, if nothing else. And I don’t know if it’s because it’s in my home and with my friends that it feels so little like “real” work. I do know this: I may or may not be good for much in the larger scheme of things, but I am good at directing “Girls Will Be Girls” films. And I feel lucky to now and then have that opportunity.

On the set of GWBG 2012 additional shooting P.S. What does...

chardday — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:02:20 -0800

On the set of GWBG 2012 additional shooting

P.S. What does everyone think of the title GWBG TBD? Kidding!

The three girls (in male drag!) recording the title song to GWBG...

chardday — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:55:52 -0800

The three girls (in male drag!) recording the title song to GWBG 2012 at composer Steve Edwards’ studio

Your Thanksgiving Weekend GWBG 2012 Update

chardday — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:33:00 -0800

It’s been a long time since I wrote one of these “making of” posts, probably because most the things going on in the making of GWBG2012 are long processes like editing and effects work about which there’s not much to say. Also sloth. Another big part of why I haven’t is pure sloth on my part.

Editing is going well, albeit in a frustratingly slow, dull-dull-dull way. Our plan had been to get some kind of cut together by the Sundance deadline in August. SPOILER ALERT: We did not make that deadline. It wasn’t even close. Part of the reason is that I put off editing for a few months after the shoot, because between it, prepping for it, and writing the thing, it had been a long time since I’d done anything to try to earn a living. So first I had to work on a few potentially income-generating things. Funny story: None of them came to anything! Another factor though was that editing revealed a few places where the writing could have been clearer, and others where it turns out that shot I accidentally didn’t press “record” on is kinda important after all. So we’ll be doing a little reshooting, and the earliest time the actors were all available was early December.

I think it’s important to get all this time-stamped as the official story today, so when Sundance announces their line-up it won’t look like they didn’t let us in so we came up with some lame cover story. As you can see, my priorities are dialed in perfectly. It’s anyone’s guess whether a sequel ever had a shot of getting into Sundance, but their Park City at Midnight umbrella was big enough to include the first film, so you never know. Mainly Sundance meant so much to us I wanted to at least try. And the film will be ready in time to play at Sundance, if they could get over that little hitch about wanting to see it ahead of time. Hear that, Sundance? Oh lordy that was desperate.

One good thing about the reshoots will be that I can actually blog about some production days this time around. Again, my priorities? Right. On. But in fairness those days are a lot more interesting than the ones where I mostly grind my teeth while my wheezing computer churns for ninety seconds before showing me my most recent two-frame trim.

In other news, people have continued to send in remote cameos, though you’d never know it from this blog because I got kind of behind on posting stills from online. Why? Anyone? Yes, you in the back, that’s correct: More sloth. Nevertheless we really appreciate everyone taking the time; they’re truly one of the high points of the new film. What other movie features footage sent in by the audience? Well, okay, there have been a couple of those “on this day” films already. But what other, um, narrative movie? Answer me that. There’s still time to do one if you are interested, too. They’ll all be included in the final movie in ways I don’t want to give away just yet but are pretty cool.

We also had a little fundraiser to pay for the post production and reshoots, which was a big success. What was especially touching in retrospect was that people showed up even though it meant sitting through the first film again, which they’d all seen and probably more than once. Some of the big laugh lines therefore got applause instead, which was gratifying and strange all at once. I have no idea how widespread enthusiasm for (or even awareness of) “Girls Will Be Girls” is, but if the cast and I were very, very selective about where we spent our time we could convince ourselves it was the gay Star Wars or something. Which come to think may not be great news for the decade-later sequel, sorry! Anyway, a sincere thank you to all who attended, and an especially-sincere one to whoever bought the fake breasts Jack wore in the first film in the silent auction (which was only silent if you don’t count all the people exclaiming “gross!”)

More soon…

11/15 in LA: Girls Will Be Girls

mwtalent — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 09:52:00 -0800

11/15 in LA: Girls Will Be Girls:

Join us in Los Angeles on November 15th for a rare showing of the original Girls Will Be Girls film. Coco, Evie, writer/director Richard Day will be on hand for a Q&A after.

All money will go to The LA Gay and Lesbian Center’s Services and the finishing funds for Girls Will Be Girls 2012, the sequel!

It’s huge!

chardday — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:53:54 -0700

It’s huge!

Notice the logo in the window — Coco’s shop is...

chardday — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:04:16 -0700

Notice the logo in the window — Coco’s shop is called “Girls Will Be Girls”

yesterdaysmeme:

iheartarresteddevelopment:

do you guys prefer me writing the subtitles out like this?

Season 3 || Episode 2

Am I the only one who got really excited because Miss Coco Peru made a cameo appearance? I love her.

we really want to help, and my friends and i are um, whats the best way to say addicts? we are ADDICTED to GWBG! I think we can quote it verbatim. How do we submit the fan vids and what are the parameters? We're not fancy gays, just some sassy Midwesterners with a flipcam.

Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:42:47 -0700

Here are the guidelines.

But really we’ll take anything you can flip-shoot with your flip-cam.

Thanks!

Jeffrey Patrick Olson’s remote cameo (our first boy/girl...

chardday — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:33:58 -0700

Jeffrey Patrick Olson’s remote cameo (our first boy/girl double-feature!)

Ben Gibson remote cameo!

chardday — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:22:49 -0700

Ben Gibson remote cameo!

Love Spencer

chardday — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 13:10:00 -0700

If anyone is bored enough to want to read an unrelated screenplay I wrote called “Love Spencer,” you can download it for free here. It’s about a boy who becomes a child star; it’s not remotely similar GWBG, but I like it.

We financed GWBG 2012 through Kickstarter, and this one would be through Amazon. The more I write about Hollywood, the further I get from it.

It’s a whole new world.

GWBG2012 remote cameo update

chardday — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:09:00 -0700

After a couple weeks of quiet there has been a sudden flood of them. Well maybe six? But they’re work, so that’s a lot. At first I couldn’t figure out why, and then I remembered I’d said people had until the end of July. I’d wait til the last minute if I were doing one too. Anyway tomorrow I’ll go through them and post stills. Thank you to everybody for taking the time and going to the trouble. We really appreciate it and you are all in the film.

The reason I forgot about the end-of-July deadline, by the way, is that it was a total lie. We have months still before we lock, so keep them coming! Did I say months? I meant three weeks. We, um, lock in three weeks. So you can wait til then but that’s it really.

Get the "Girls Will Be Girls" screenplay on your Kindle

chardday — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 20:05:18 -0700

here