FILM | 'The Contract' - Nine Things You Just Realised You Never Knew

Nine things about 'The Contract' you just realised you never knew. 

Who woulda thunk a little script carried so much weight?

•  Originally written as a 10 minute short play. 

• Script Development Partners - A Fistful Of Scripts [Season 2], April 2011 - audience feedback, "...that's not a 10 minute play. It's a 6 part TV series". 

• Writer / creator / director / producer Sean McIntyre has cast the same actors as per original script reading. This is his 'thank-you' for their support of the work and their unpaid participation in his script reading series: 'A Fistful of Scripts', 2nd April 2011. 

• 'A Fistful of Scripts' - a proven incubator for development of scripts. Demonstrated by rich audience feedback when the original script was presented as a rehearsed staged reading in April, 2011. 

• Alex McArthur (SPUD) no longer lives in Melbourne. 

• Adam Turnbull (WES) has a key support role, yet in the TV pilot only has 2 to 3 lines. Each character has a significant backstory and character arc. These explain not only their offscreen personal and family lives, but also the interpersonal and inter-office relationships between the characters. 

• Survival is a primary theme of this series. To create an aesthetic of restricted confinement, intensity, urgency and rising levels of conflict between the characters, The Contract will borrow heavily from Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat and James Cameron's Titanic. This is expressly linked to and articulated through a key metaphor: STM Asia Pacific Constructions is representative of a life-boat. 

• A secondary theme is built around the supporting characters and the proverbial principle of three wise monkeys - together they will embody 'see no evil (Gallaher), hear no evil (Lewis), speak no evil (Kane)'. 

• Oct 2014 - Claudia Greenstone's character is yet to be created - it has not yet been written into the TV pilot. Her character is originally part of the back story for another character. Claudia's casting derives from her participation in the original script reading as a professional narrator for rehearsed readings As well as subsequent seasons of 'A Fistful of Scripts'). 

CALLUMNY FILMS in association with WISE WORDS MEDIA present 

THE CONTRACT

ADAM TURNBULL   ALAN KILFOYLE   ALEX MCARTHUR    CALLAN LEWIS

CHRISTOPHER BARRY     DAVID ROCK      GRAHAM MURRAY     NADIA ANDARY    

SOREN JENSEN    STEPH EVISON-WILLIAMS    VAS ANAGNOS

With CLAUDIA GREENSTONE

Written by Sean McIntyre  

Script development with kind assistance from A Fistful of Scripts.

ABOUT THE CONTRACT | short, 12-15 minutes

STM Asia Pacific Constructions is pinning its future to its biggest ever project: 'Eastern Metropol Train Station'.

The worst storm in 100 years wreaks havoc on the city and its new landmark, causing $60 000 in damages and clean-up costs per week.Friendships fracture. Fingers point. Accusations fly. Alliances shift. Spin and counter-spin.

It's every man, woman and back-stabbing bastard for themselves.

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Trailers

• The Contract - Location Scout | concept proof 1 wip 4

• The Contract - Location Scout | concept proof 2 wip 4

• The Contract | Teaser Trailer 1 - using Lean Film Making Methodology

IMDB

• 'The Contract'

• Promo poster - One  

• Promo poster - Two

• Meet the cast
• Nine things you just realised you never knew about 'The Contract'
 

A Fistful of Scripts

• Stills – Event, April 2010

• Casting call for actors (2011) - Detailed character breakdowns
• Media Release | About 'A Fistful of Scripts' 

• A Fistful of Scripts [season 2], Theatreworks - The Contract 

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