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‘Mockbuster’ Trailer: Documentary Captures Impossible Mission to Direct a Movie for The Asylum
If you can’t beat Hollywood, knock it off.
That’s not just the conceit behind low-budget film studio The Asylum, but for the hilarious and heartfelt documentary Mockbuster, chronicling a director’s strange journey helming The Land That Time Forgot.
From Executive Producer and famed documentarian David Farrier, Mockbuster opens in select theaters and on digital platforms beginning July 10.
In the documentary, “A struggling filmmaker’s opportunity collides with chaos and compromise when Sharknado’s notorious studio, The Asylum, invites him to direct a ‘mockbuster.’ With six days, a micro budget, and mounting pressure, Mockbuster is a comedic, behind-the-scenes documentary exploring the balance between low-budget filmmaking and creative ambition.”
Watch the charming trailer below that introduces director Anthony Frith as he decides to shoot his shot by pitching himself to The Asylum to direct a lost-world dinosaur epic.
Inexplicably, they say yes.
What follows is a madcap production in suburban Adelaide, shot in just six days on a budget that could generously be described as “aspirational.”
Frith is tasked with only six days to shoot The Land That Time Forgot, but he’s also helming the behind-the-scenes documentary, Mockbuster. In other words, Mockbuster marks the double feature debut by Frith.
“I went into this project thinking that directing a dinosaur movie for The Asylum would be fun, and that it would make for a hilarious behind-the-scenes doc,” Frith previously told Variety. “From the outside, they look like Hollywood’s punk rockers, working fast and loose. But somewhere between receiving the script on Sunday and shooting on Monday, I started to see their true genius: controlled chaos – a method that, against all odds, produces movies audiences keep coming back for.”
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