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Saved! Full Production Notes "Heaven Help Us."
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 Chapter 3: And A Director Shall Lead ThemUltimately, even though Dannelly was a first-time writer/director, it was the force of his conviction and personality that convinced Stern and Snipe to give him the reins. "Brian spent months convincing me he was the guy to direct this movie," Stern says. "The more time I spent with him and the more I understood his vision of the movie, the more entrenched I became in supporting him as director. As a producer, what I wanted most from this movie was something really funny, really smart, and really emotional ` and those are the qualities I would use to describe Brian."
For his part, Stipe felt Dannelly would make the film believable. "From the beginning, I knew I didn't want one of those films where 24-year-olds are playing teenagers," he says, "and it was my feeling with Brian that we would wind up with characters that were very real."
It was a challenge to find financing for such a potentially risky project. "Not only did we have a first-time director," Stern says, "but we had a high school movie with edgy subject matter. It took unwavering faith in Brian and Michael's script and an incredibly talented group of actors to finally get people to fund the film."
There were still a few bumps in the road to production: in spring 2001, only two weeks away from the start of filming in Florida, funding fell through and the project went into temporary limbo. Luckily, Infinity Media (a Vancouver/L.A.-based company headed by William Vince and Michael Ohoven) stepped up to the plate. "We had just hit an iceberg, I was in a lifeboat, and the voice of Bill Vince was our salvation," says Stern. "He has an entire Vancouver-based operation that seamlessly pulled together the production in record time. We're incredibly grateful to Infinity Media." In addition, Single Cell has a first look deal with United Artists. "The Infinity and United Artists combination helped us get out of the quicksand," says Stern.
It also didn't hurt that the production attracted what Stern refers to as "the perfect ensemble cast." Eschewing the services of a Los Angeles casting director, Stern and Stipe handled the principal casting themselves.
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