BPS 196: The Good, Bad and Ugly of the Film Biz with Adam White

Today on the show we go through the good, the bad and the ugly of
being an indie filmmakers. On the show we have filmmaker Adam
White. 

We discuss the making of his new film Funny Thing About. We discuss
financing, casting, how he got Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite) to say
yes to a supporting role in a romcom, shooting an ensemble cast
during the pandemic, how we were filming the movie without having
all of the funding in hand, securing distribution and much more.
It's a pretty insane story.

Samantha Banks is a successful business with a handsome fiancee.
But over one crazy Thanksgiving Holiday with her scheming family,
her whole world is thrown into a tailspin when they invite her
ex-boyfriend, "the one that got away."

We also discuss how he financed his first feature Inspired
Guns and when that was a box office flop he lost everything
including his house. It took seven years for him to bounce back and
make another feature.

The last thing Elder Fisher expects when he and his brand new
companion, Elder Johnson, hit the streets of New York is a couple
of seemingly golden prospects. But dimwitted brothers Roger and
Larry, low-level Mafioso, think the two Mormon missionaries who
approach them have been sent by the “Boss” to deliver their next
assignment.

So the brothers are willing to listen to anything the young men in
dark suits have to say—including a message of salvation—even if
Elder Johnson is the most overconfident and underprepared
missionary to ever attempt to preach the word of God. Soon the
witless brothers are searching through the Book of Mormon in a
quest to find a hidden message.

But as the missionaries and Roger and Larry continue to meet for
discussions, both the mafia and the FBI have their sights set on
Elders Fisher and Johnson. The mob thinks the missionaries are FBI;
and the FBI believes the young men are hitmen on a mission—and both
groups want the elders out of the picture. The Elders come to
realize they must rely on each other to survive this case of
mistaken identity.

Enjoy my conversation with Adam White.

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