Mike the Pike Productions, Inc. Announces Feature Film Version of Spokefish's R.E.M.
9:15a ET March 8, 2011 (Business Wire)
Mike The Pike Productions, Inc.(OTC: MIKP)(www.mtpprods.com) is pleased to announce that it has partnered with Spokelane Entertainment to produce a feature film adaptation of its graphic novel, R.E.M., a dark sci-fi thriller in the spirit of mind-benders like 'Memento' and 'Pi'. The project has already received initial financing for development and producers are thrilled to be launching a motion picture counterpart to the graphic novel toward beneficial cross-promotion for both projects set for completion in 2011.
Writer/Producer, Ryan Colucci (www.harbor-moon.com, Battle for Terra) is set to direct and is currently in Los Angeles filming a 'prequel' component for its development package titled '4.2.3.', which, as Colucci states on his blog over the weekend, "is a prequel to R.E.M. - but stands on its own as a short film." '4.2.3. will be produced as a comic that will appear as Issue #0 in the digital release of the R.E.M. series by Spokefish. Details forthcoming.
MTP and Spokelane will be out to agencies for key crew and cast after the project wraps later this month. The short promises to impress with some of the city's hottest locations and www.filmworksfx.com on board for post and special effects. Also on board to produce is Luiza Ricupero Negret (producer, 'Toward Darkness'), who formerly served as manager/director of production, development and acquisitions at Myriad Pictures.
"The short is a tremendous asset to our package out to distributors/investors for the feature adaptation of Spokefish's R.E.M.," states Producer and MTP CEO, Mark B. Newbauer. "It's also a testament to Colucci's commitment to the project, not to mention his passion for the story's characters outside the confines of the original script. Ryan and I are thrilled to see R.E.M. taking on a life of its own as we officially announce the Feature component to the series and are currently in negotiations with financiers to fund the picture. We, at Mike the Pike Productions, are thrilled with news to come on this and other projects on our slate and will announce as permissions are received by 3rd parties."
Progress continues on Spokefish's slate of graphic novels with Bulderlyns, R.E.M. and Chasing Rabbits all in ink and coloring stages, with announcements to come toward a completed slate by mid-year.
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R.E.M.
In New York City, behind a series of locks, lives Michael Letto, a brilliant but paranoid neuroscientist. Since his first and only love died, he's become consumed with unlocking the mystery of sleep.
Based on ancient practices, Michael sets forth to devise a chair that enables one to attain a full nights sleep in a matter of minutes. His theories bring him to the attention of both the military and a shrouded religious order that will stop at nothing to attain his secret.
As Michael grows closer to realizing his dream, he starts to unravel, trapped in an inescapable nightmare as visions of his lost love worsen.
MTP Producers Ryan Colucci, Beth Newbauer and Mark B. Newbauer present: George R.R. Martin's THE SKIN TRADE: From the best-selling author of the Song of Ice and Fire series comes this white knuckle chiller with a string of unsolved murders immersed deep in lycan lore: When a series of grotesque killings strikes her small hometown, private detective Randi Wade becomes suspicious. The grisly murders remind her all too much of her own father's death nearly 20 years ago. Now there is a killer in town who not only slays his victims, but also takes their skin. Undaunted, Randi takes the case head-on as the murders continue, each more brutal than the last. When a close friend suddenly becomes a target, he is forced to reveal a startling secret about himself and Randi is quickly pulled into a dark world within her own town where monsters do exist and even they have something to fear...
MTP & Horseplay, LLC present: HORSE - a wild ride through the streets of Ft. Wayne on a night no one will forget...if they live to remember...as they take part against some not-so-friendly parties on the prowl for a missing bag of Heroin. It's a race against time for a club-owner, a drug mule, two college kids and a sadistic Irish kingpin in from Chicago to reclaim his stake.
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