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Joshua Hull Father, Husband, White guy.
Joshua launched ARSONIST PICTURES in 2010 with the office zombie comedy BEVERLY LANE. The film has received attention from Aint It Cool News, Nerdremix.com, Bloodsprayer.com & more and landed him on Dread Central's "Indie Directors to Watch" list..
Currently he is pre-production on the follow-up to Beverly Lane, the slasher comedy, IDIOT GORE filming Fall 2011.
"I love to wrestle bears & I'm always on the lookout for the Sarlacc's pit."
1. Your film Beverly Lane is a horror comedy, was that always the plan? Or as you wrote it did it slowly build itself into one?
It was always SORT OF the plan. I always wanted my 1st film to be a zombie movie & I developed multiple zombie films throughout the years. I met Noah East (Andy in BL) & we talked about working on something together. He's a musician & I've always had a love for musicals so...wait. Why are you looking at me like that? Seriously stop looking at me like that. I don't need you judging me because of how legit jazz hands are man!! Where was I? Oh right. So we originally set out to make a zombie comedy cubical musical built around Noah as the office manager. A week later we dropped the musical part & kept the rest. Turns out the one time jazz hands aren't legit would be during a zombie apocalypse. Lesson learned.
2. In the film you have genre favorite Jim O'Rear cast as Adam Cadabra, how did you come to cast him in this part?
I wish I had this great story about how it came about but I don't. Basically I was driving through Tennessee & I stopped at a gas station. I went in for the typical slushee action & when I came out my car was gone. The one time I got to Tennessee I get car jacked. 2 days later I get a call from Jim O'Rear. He was the bastard that stole my car! The car that had the latest draft of Beverly Lane in it. He said he read it & wanted to be in the flick. After about an hour or so of me crying on the phone we made a deal. He would give me my car back & in return he would get to be in the movie. That's how it came to be. Movie magic..
3. You also have Mark A. Nash, who has been seen everywhere in the past few years: everything from CSI:Miami to Numb3rs and also in Zack Parker's film Scalene. How did you meet and move on to cast Mark as Scotty in Beverly Lane?
I met Mark at a monthly film meeting we have here in Indiana. I mentioned we were developing this idea for a zombie comedy set in an office & I thought he would be great for the role of the JCVD obsessed janitor Scotty. I sent him the script & he didn't agree with me. He wanted to play the office tramp Susan. I tried to explain to him that the role of Susan just wasn't a good fit for him. That role required certain lady parts. We went back & forth. I even had to email pictures & explain just why it wouldn't work. Then one day he just forgot about Susan & accepted the role of Scotty.
4. The film has really been garnering some great review and hype over the past year: featuring glowing reviews from Horrorphilia.com, liberaldead.com, and Horrorsociety.com.What would you say has been the most humbling and rewarding moment so far for you?
The generic answer would be everything. This entire journey has been humbling & rewarding. I mean I made a movie! That's something I've been trying to do for years & it finally happened. I will say the reviews have been overwhelming. This is a very small, micro budget movie from the middle of Indiana. Sites that review hundred million dollar movies are reviewing us & loving it! The film has really opened the door & it has people excited about what we're doing over here. I will single out one moment. Our premiere was incredible! We sold out 2 weeks before the showing & had to keep moving to bigger theaters in order to get everyone in. The theater was packed & people were cheering for the film like crazy folk! That was one of the greatest moments in my life.
5. Lastly, you have the film Idiot Gore up next for you? What can you tell us about this film, what can we expect, and what else is in the future for Joshua Hull?
Ahh yes. IDIOT GORE is the definition of development hell haha! I've been to hell & back with this script but it looks like it will finally be happening in 2012. IG is my love letter to the slasher genre, Halloween to be more specific. It's about a small town guy who isn't exactly the smartest guy in the world but somehow he survives a high school massacre. Fast forward many years later where he is now a hack author & washed up reality star. Things happen & he ends up back home for the 1st time since surviving the attack. Well his past literally comes back to haunt him once he arrives. You can expect one helluva good time with the movie. It's not a spoof so don't expect us to make fun of the genre. It's sort of Behind The Mask meets Tropic Thunder.
The future is busy! Including Idiot Gore, I have 2-3 other projects on the slate for 2012. I can't really talk about 2 of them yet. I wish I could but details are still being worked out for them. I'm already started to prep another feature that will sort of break the mold & get me away from the horror/comedy for a bit. J. Travis Grundon will be scripting this dark & twisted take on friendship. The slate is filling up & I couldn't be happier.
You can keep up with everything by finding me on facebook or heading over to beverlylanemovie.com where Beverly Lane is available on DVD for only $10!
Many thanks to Joshua for being in this weeks Mini-View hotspot, and here's wishing him much more continued success in the future.
- Brandon Bennett
