2024 certainly delivered for me there.
The actor's and writer's strikes of 2023 gave way to what I've been calling the Drought of 2024.
Film and TV production dropped sharply across the board and all over the world.
There's a number of reasons why, but at the end of the day, it happened.
I was fortunate enough to work here and there.
Two days on a feature in January.
Two more days on another feature in August.
Then filming two features back-to-back from mid-November to mid-December.
That was a bit of a roller coaster.
Also in November, I had two projects release.
In Red One (currently streaming on Amazon Prime) I'm playing one of MORA's literal computer trolls tracking down O'Malley. One scene, but the fun of being my first motion capture role.
In The Piano Lesson (currently streaming on Netflix) I'm playing Sutter, the big bad.
Not gonna lie, I'm still kind of mindblown that I got to be a part of that.
It's an amazing story with a brilliant cast.
Among other things, I wound up doing some of my own wirework.
Finding a harness to fit me was a bit of a challenge, so after wrap I had one custom built for me.
Just in case the opportunity arises again.
On the writing side, a lot of projects kicked off.
Ghost Light is the sequel to Renfield Blues, taking the characters through a Phantom of the Opera story. I've got a working draft that went through beta readers and I'm in the revisions stage for that. I'm releasing it sometime in 2025, I'm just not sure exactly when.
Beyond that, I have a standalone novel I'm keeping under wraps for a bit. We'll see what that turns up into.
I've also written a screenplay for a horror movie, which is getting some tentative interest. We'll see what happens.
Overall, 2025 looks full of promise.
We'll see what happens.