'Independence Day' Takes to the Stage!

Is Roland Emmerich's Independence Day every about special personalty spectacle or does the drama work on its own, stripped of big name stars and an exploding White House? A assemble of friends definite to find discover by production a hilariously minimalist initiate edition of the 1996 incase duty smash.

The initiate production is the product 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 penalization comedy situation The Hard Gravel). Independence Day marked the fourth live theatre production for the gathering after Jurassic Park and a disorganised The Lion King/Predator double-bill, and they say they're meet effort started.

(You can read more and check 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 going to metropolis in March to do Men in Black and Aladdin," said Sam Eidson, who writes and directs the no-budget plays with the support of prop master Josh Jones. Sam has seen the crowds acquire from cardinal grouping stagnant in a face yard for their porch-side edition of Jurassic Park to over 200 audience crammed into an clean meat-packing warehouse for the liberated Independence Day performance.

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

ID4: Off Broadway 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 manner of Nathan Jones, Nathan designer Photography)