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Lady Luck sets out to find the kidnapped Professor McGuffin, before his life changing technology falls into the wrong hands in this comedic take on the classic public domain character.
A WORD FROM CHRIS
It's been a while since I've made a comedy, let alone a meta comedy, but after researching Lady Luck, I felt she was the perfect vehicle for one. Since characters like Deadpool kind've have a monopoly on the meta comedy schtick, I needed to make sure my story, or more specifically, my style of story didn't draw any parallels to the merc with a mouth. His brand of humor is randomness mixed with vulgarity and toilet humor, so for LADY LUCK, I decided to go full camp, something more akin to the 1960's Batman.
After reading many of the Lady Luck comics from the 1940's, I definitely began picking up on her tongue and cheek style of humor. Granted, the character never broke the 4th wall, but thought bubbles in comic books are essentially the same thing. I didn't really have much of a plan when writing the humor for the script. Pretty much, if I had an idea, I just ran with it until I felt the joke had made its point. The opening sequence between Lady Luck and Harold the burglar came pretty natural. I liked the idea of a single faux-paw spiraling into this tangent. The rest of the script, however, was a little more difficult. Pacing is probably the most important thing in comedy, so keeping things at a steady rhythm can prove challenge when you're not a full time comedy writer.
Probably the biggest challenge of this project was having to play Preacherman. I would like to formally state that I had absolutely no intention nor desire to play this character. I had someone else in mind when I wrote the part, and subsequently cast them in the role. Unfortunately, about 48 hours before filming, that actor had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict and I was left holding the bag. I did everything I could to find a last minute replacement, but no one who I thought could handle the part was available. So rather than having cancel filming, and suffer PTSD flashbacks from 2025's POWER GIRL, I decided to bite the bullet and do the role myself, given the part wasn't as demanding.
Now let me telling you, dressing up in that makeshift costume, with that stupid wig was a sweat filled nightmare for me when it came to directing. I had sweat dripping into my eyes, which is why I was holding the rag in the film, rather than the dish of communion wafers (as it was originally scripted). Now thankfully, I did manage to get them in at least one scene, but if I'm being honest, Preacherman was supposed to be chowing down on those little suckers the whole time. As I had mentioned, the costume was makeshift, because the very flashy pink three piece suit I had originally purchased for my actor, did not fit me, given I am like half a foot taller and 100lbs heavier. So I had to dig through my costume closet and throw together anything I could find. Thankfully, I had an unused white pin stripe pimp jacket from an unmade project, that was about maybe 1 size too small, but I managed to squeeze into it. Then I used the red satin scarf to compensate as an oversized ascot, since I didn't have any white button down shirts. The wig was the Barbara Gordon wig from Batman Beyond. You have my permission to laugh now.
In order to expedite filming, I pretty much shot all my scenes first, knowing they would take up the most time. But I knew the sooner I was wrapped and out of that stupid costume, the quicker the shoot would go, and it did. After Preacherman was done, everything else felt like a breeze. The only under snag I ran into was the Dear Friend sequence as I was unable to secure a decent location for it. So at first, I figured I'd just green screen the background. Unfortunately, the footage just didn't look good. Both Caroline Abbott and Lindsey Bean had green outlines around them and nothing I did could get rid of those outlines without making parts of their bodies disappear. It's times like these when you wish you had the high tech software of a big studio to solve these simple low budget problems, but alas, that was not the case. So I decided to reshoot scene, however, this time, I bought a printed backdrop, which looks kinda goofy, but was a hell of a lot less distracting that terrible green screen keying.