I was reading a book on script writing for low budget features. The author wrote made-for-cable TV movies to be shot in 12 or 18 days, but he mentioned there were companies that made 3-day movies that were mostly unwatchable. I tried to find more information on them, so I googled "three day movie", but all I got was dozens of websites about a movie called The Next Three Days.
But I finally found a podcast interview with a fellow named Grant Pichla who made a movie in two days. He filmed 60 pages of script in one day. They had to dispense with rehearsals and, after the first scene, with pretty much any direction or discussion at all.
The guy is a film school grad who earns at least part of his living shooting wedding videos, and was doing pretty well judging from his house in a Detroit suburb where the thing was filmed.
Turned out to be available on Amazon Prime. And it was pretty good. It looked great. The CIA wants to buy a guy's time machine, but he has to prove that it works, so he and an agent go back seven years to the night he has to propose to his estranged wife who just served him with divorce papers.
An hour and forty-eight minutes. They didn't pad it out by running the closing credits really slow. They didn't even pad out the credits with phony names like they usually do with these things. They thanked the Screen Actors Guild in the closing credits.
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