RELEASE DATE COMING SOON

FINALLY, after much post work, THE LAST EAGLE SCOUT will be released soon.  Possibly the end of January.  Will know in a week or so.  Thanks for your patience.

NEW ARTICLE ON TLES

As we get closer to release time (aiming for September 9th), we are starting to get some press and advertising will be the name of the game.

Here is an article I wrote for the Big Hollywood blog site.

The latest with THE LAST EAGLE SCOUT

Ahhh the joys of independent filmmaking...

Happy new year! I figured it is a good time to talk about where we are with THE LAST EAGLE SCOUT. Things had been moving along nicely. We made some changes and that delayed us a little bit. And I was about to do what we call in the industry as "lock picture". This means the edit looked as good as it was going to be, and I can pass the movie over to the music, audio and color masters to make the film look and sound even better.

Then, the inevitable happened... the editing hard drive crashed. Luckily we retrieved about 95 percent of the film, but lost about 5 percent of important footage. We are currently picking up the pieces, but it is getting done. The motto of "be prepared" was not being used here.

I am always a believer of things happening for a reason. This event will pass and we will have the film in theaters before you know it. It has been a long journey, 6 years in writing and 2 years in the producing. As most of you know, I also have a day job, blending crazy things with the company Blendtec producing the Internet series known as WILL IT BLEND. This has a tendency to take a lot of my time.

But with the new year, we have renewed energy to get this film out as soon as possible. I am excited to see the fans from across the seas, especially in places like Makati, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. That is amazing to me. We will play the film in as many theaters as possible and inform you when we know where and when.

We are also planning on being a little more "social media" active as we will have more to show as we get closer to the release of the film with updates and information. Soon we will have a new preview and reports on things related to the topic of the film.

Thank you all for your patience and remember... be prepared.

Kels Goodman

MINIATURES AND DIGITAL FUN!

It looks like we are delaying the release of The Last Eagle Scout, but not for too long. Things have been crazy and with a few recent showings of the film to closed groups, we have found some changes we would like to make.

With that in mind, we have to opportunity to make the film better and close any gaps we have seen. We also got into finishing some special effects that were not done yet. Clark Schaffer has been patient enough with us in his busy schedule to come finish this scale model of the Knight Building that sits in the city center of Downtown Provo.

We filmed all around the building a chase scene between Cliff and Zeke. It was pretty fun. When I see Clark work, I get a sense of all kinds of things I would want to do with effects and miniatures. I can see a "high" coming from making effect films.

The Knight building has a little significance in my life. It's where I had my office while making Handcart 8 years ago. It is where the first of my favorite sub franchise began, Gandolfos. It is also the building named after the father of my dad's old business partner, Glade Knight, who founded Southern Virginia University (ironically, the mascot of SVU is "The Knights").

It is also the home of the oldest elevator in Utah (as seen in the film). Excited to finish this film.

Kels

"THE LAST EAGLE SCOUT" AD

Around June 1, Utah County begins the Freedom Festival, which is one of the most patriotic events you will ever see in the US. It is a series of events that happen that lead up to the 4th of July.

They have a beautiful magazine that comes out around the same time with all the events listed. I bought a full page ad to advertise The Last Eagle Scout film. I might get crap for it, don't know. I tested the ad on Facebook and besides some technical things, people overall liked it.

Getting close to done. Just finished a scene with Richard Hatch from Battlestar Galactica, which was awesome. He played a role I was saving for someone important, the scout leader during Cliff's Board of Review. Otherwise, pretty much most everything is in the can.

BODILY MANAGEMENT

Here is a new sneak peek scene from THE LAST EAGLE SCOUT. I figured, since Health Care is such a debate right now, why not upload a scene from the film.

More comin'....

DIRECTOR OF TLES SURVIVES KLONDIKE!

Ok, that's not such big news, but it is for me. These are photos of actually two Klondikes we did, one a few months ago and the other just this past weekend. My troop is not very big, about 7 kids total, but their energy is enormous. (The photos in the middle are my son, Parke. Then me coming back from the Klondike, I'd had enough).

My assistant Scoutmaster, Jed, also has a great love for the scouts. He makes me look good by helping them with knots and camping, things I haven't mastered. I think much of scouting is for the adults as well.

I have done about 2 other Klondikes before this year as a leader and was a wimp. I ended up sleeping in my car both times. But I was only assistant Scoutmaster at the time. Now I felt obligated to live up to what the boys themselves go through. So on these recent Klondikes, I slept in the tent and it snowed both times in the middle of the night.

We actually camped at Camp Maple Dell, which is where we filmed all camping scenes for THE LAST EAGLE SCOUT. It was weird going back to the same place but now having to lug everything around in a sled.

At this past Klondike, the boys had competitions where they did speed knot tying, guessed first aid needs, measured their scout spirit, built fires, raced snow sleds and mapped out compass courses. The council that put this on was awesome and you can tell the great spirit of scouting was alive and well.