A few months back my friends at Brisbane SciFi & Fantasy (BSFF) made a ‘sweded’ version of X-Men.
If you don’t know what ‘sweding’ is all about, check out the movie “Be Kind, Please Rewind“ starring Jack Black and Mos Def. It’s the film that started this craze. In the movie, the clerk of a flailing VHS- only video store and his klutzy friend accidentally erase all the VHS tapes while the owner is out of town. When a customer comes in looking to rent Ghostbusters, they boys come up with a creative solution. Since the customer has never seen Ghostbusters, the clerk and his friend set about recreating the movie from scratch, starring themselves as the actors, and using cheap special effects in the hopes of passing it off as the real thing. The result was hilarious; news of the couple’s movie re-creations soon spread and demand grew for new ‘sweded’ movies to be made.
Sweded filmmaking is filmmaking at its worst. It’s usually done on the fly, with only one take per scene. Costumes and props are usually made out of items found around the home. It’s terrible. And it’s bloody good fun!
BSFF’s first sweded effort was with Star Wars. What a hoot! You can check it out >here<.
Sweded X-Men is the latest movie to get the Brisbane Sci-Fi makeover, and plans are already in the works for a new movie- possibly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (based on the original old skool 90’s movie, not the crappy CGI one).
Stay tuned for my next post: Sweded X-Men: Behind The Scenes!
Here’s a preview of our Sweded X-Men movie…
