I know things have been a little on the ultra-quiet side lately. That’s pretty much been because we haven’t been doing much at all. Bjorn, Jody, Paul, and I have met a few times to watch the existing film and try to get the film cut down to a reasonable length and keep the pace and excitement level up. After a couple of these “brain dump” kind of meetings, we met up again last night to watch the newest cut.

Jody’s pulled together all of our input, worked some of his Final Cut magic and made what we all feel is the just-about-perfect cut. The film is now down to around 102 minutes (from something like 128 minutes), though we’re still trying to determine the best closing to the picture. Jody has a couple endings put together, both look great, though I’m partial to one in particular. Hopefully within the next couple of weeks we’ll have a cut that we’re all happy with.

For anyone that watched the private screening at the library, you probably remember the film being a little slow and having a ton of walking in it. Well, that’s pretty much gone now. Everything moves along at a nice pace, nothing really bogging it down anymore. Even though I’ve seen almost all the other versions that have come after that initial screening, it felt like a new film when we watched it last night. I’m excited to watch it again with some other people that haven’t seen all the iterations, just to get their feedback and see if we really have made valid improvements.