COLT Studio Group announced today that editing has begun on its latest Buckshot Productions feature, Beyond Perfect. The picture was helmed by GAYVN Hall of Fame writer/director Jerry Douglas, writer and co-director of last year's smash hit, BuckleRoos 1-2.
According to a CSG press release, Brad Patton and Jason Kingsley star in a tale of a pair of present-day lovers whose relationship is threatened when one discovers the other with an anonymous trick. The film's major non-sex role, a couples counselor to whom they turn for help, is played by legendary director Joe Gage in his first on-camera appearance in several years.
Douglas is currently at his home in New York City studying and cataloguing the 22 hours of raw footage that will be condensed into the two-hour final release. This "paper edit" (a shot-by-shot breakdown of the film as Douglas envisions it) will take about six weeks to complete. Editor Max Phillips will then assemble the first rough cut of Beyond Perfect by October 1. At that time, Douglas will return to the San Francisco-based studio, and he and Phillips will prepare the final cut for producers John Rutherford and Tom Settle.
In a telephone interview Douglas noted, "The great director Alfred Hitchcock always said that films are not made on the set, they are made in the editing room — and I have certainly felt that truth of that statement over and over again as I try to put this film together. For example, there is so much sizzling footage of the final scene between Brad and Jason that I could cut an hour-long sequence from that episode alone! This also holds true for the backroom bar scene that opens the film. We shot an entire day with eight principals and over a dozen extras, and what we captured that day is so good and so raunchy that it's very difficult to eliminate even a single shot. So I've clearly got my work cut out for me.
"Editing is my favorite phase of filmmaking," continued writer/director Douglas. "Writing a film is only the beginning — it's like finding a map that tells you where the mother lode might be found. So you head for the movie set in much the same way that miners headed for the gold fields in hopes of finding the treasure. Shooting a film is like mining the ore — it's hard work, and you never know for sure if you're getting pure gold or fool's gold. It is during the editing process that this raw material can be refined and burnished and — if things go well — it becomes what you've hoped it would turn out to be."
Beyond Perfect is slated for a November direct mail and online release. For further information visit BuckshotDVD.com.
