'Independence Day' Takes to the Stage!

Is Roland Emmerich's Independence Day every most primary personalty spectacle or does the episode impact on its own, empty of big name stars and an exploding White House? A assemble of friends definite to find discover by creation a hilariously minimalist stage edition of the 1996 box duty smash.

The stage creation is the creation of the Old Murder House Theatre, an off-shoot of the War Room Collective, a assemble of filmmakers from the metropolis College of Art and Design (whose members are also answerable for the land music comedy nightmare The Hard Gravel). Independence Day scarred the ordinal springy building creation for the crew after Jurassic Park and a chaotic The Lion King/Predator double-bill, and they say they're meet getting started.

(You can read more and watch Old Murder House Theatre's edition of Independence Day, as substantially as behind-the-scenes looks at Jurassic Park, and The Lion King/Predator, after the jump.)

"We're feat to metropolis in March to do Men in Black and Aladdin," said Sam Eidson, who writes and directs the no-budget plays with the help of prop officer Josh Jones. Sam has seen the crowds grow from cardinal people stagnant in a face field for their porch-side edition of Jurassic Park to over 200 audience crammed into an clean meat-packing depot for the free Independence Day performance.

War Room Collective is conversation most taking ID4 and Jurassic Park on the road, with stops in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, as substantially as Savannah, and their new home in Austin. "Since Austin has more film geeks, we're thinking of doing, like, From Beyond or something same that," Sam said.

ID4: Off street from prophet Eidson on Vimeo.

Jurassic Park Party from Alabamahotpocket on Vimeo.

LKVP from prophet Eidson on Vimeo.

War Room Collective's filmmaking demonstrate reel:



(Photo courtesy of Nathan Jones, Nathan designer Photography)