KBA films will be in Chatham through May 26 shooting the teaser for the feature film A Woman Called Job, written by W. Watts Biggers (who currently lives on Cape Cod), author of the 1960's Underdog television series. The film will star actor Adam Garcia in the lead role and will be directed by Kurt Burk of KBA Films. See below for more about the film.
Written by Clint Morris in Movie Hole -Australia
Haven’t seen much of Adam Garcia for a while – in fact, I don’t know whether his most recent film “The First 20 Million is always the hardest” has even had a release here in Oz? – But that’s about to change. Garcia – who by the way, can also be seen in the new film "Standing Still", which is quite a good flick, read my review here – has snagged the lead role in a beefy new effort called “A Woman Called Job”. It’s apparently “a surrealist love story” that takes place in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. Directing is Kurt Burk.
The movie – described as "Somewhere In Time" meets "Lost Highway" with a dash of “Catch-22” – stars Garcia as Lee Atwater, a man who encounters his fat look-alike robbing a small bank, triggering a surreal journey leading him to the love of his life…a restaurant-owner named, curiously enough, job.
The film is based on a story by the creator of the legendary 1960’s cartoon classic, “Underdog”, W. Watts Biggers. Biggers is not involved in the recently announced “Underdog” film, but he is fully occupied working with enthusiastic filmmaker Kurt Burk to co-write screenplay adaptations of his first and his newest novellas to bring them to the big screen.
This one sounds like a doozie….look forward to hearing more on it.
"Clint Morris- Movie Hole Australia"
Filmmaker Kurt Burk has forged a creative partnership with the veteran tv cartoon series creator of 1960's Underdog Cartoon Series , W. Watts Biggers to bring four of his novellas to the screen. Partial financing is coming through Kurt’s new film company. One Brick Films, "Films built one brick at a time" is based on a new application for the old idea of raising money to construct a building by pre-selling bricks that will form the foundation. A brick that will last forever, in cyber space that is. The deal secured the rights to "The Man Inside", "The Huffman Affair", "And The Dawn Came Soon", as well as the first project, the surreal love story "A Woman Called Job". Biggers and Burk have co-written the screenplay, Australian actor Adam Garcia (Coyote Ugly, Fascination, Riding in Cars With Boys, Love’s Brother, Confession of a Teenage Drama Queen) is committed and attached to star, veteran lighting cameraman Ray Peschke (Fascination, Woman Thou Art Loosed, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Born On The Fourth of July, Usual Suspects) has committed to shoot with Ed Marx (Coppola produced Jeeper’s Creepers I & II, Swimming With Sharks, Peaceful Warrior, It’s All True) to edit and supervise post. Kurt who received his MFA in film from Art Center College of Design, and BBA in Finance from UMASS Amherst, is set to direct and produce.
by Theatre.com Staff
Adam Garcia will join Tony winner Idina Menzel in the London production of Wicked. Garcia will play the role of Fiyero when the show opens at the Apollo Victoria on September 27 (following previews from September 7).
Garcia, an Australian-born actor who created the role of Tony Manero in the stage version of Saturday Night Fever at the London Palladium in 1998 (for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical) and was more recently seen as Chip in the English National Opera's staging of On the Town at the London Coliseum last summer, was involved in creating the role of Fiyero in a New York workshop of Wicked in 2002. (The role was originated on Broadway by Norbert Leo Butz.) Garcia first came to London as part of the original cast of the Australian tap dance show Tap Dogs. His other West End roles include playing Doody in Grease. His film credits include Standing Still, The First 20 Million Is Always the Hardest, Wilde, Riding in Cars with Boys, Coyote Ugly and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. His TV roles include appearances in Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion, Agatha Christie's Marple, The Body in the Library and Riot at the Rite.
Wicked centers on two girls who meet in the land of Oz long before Dorothy drops in. One, born with emerald-green skin (Menzel), is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. Wicked tells the story of how these two unlikely friends grew to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good Witch. Based on Gregory Maguire's novel of the same name, the show features a book by Winnie Holzman, a score by Stephen Schwartz (Godspell, Pippin) and direction by Joe Mantello.
