An amateur filmmaker is hoping to create a Birmingham version of iconic
scf-fi movie Blade Runner – and pay for it all with just goodwill.

Mark Hevingham wrote his spoof Bladder Run more than ten years ago but
never found the time to put it into production.

And when the 42 year-old lost the disk with his original manuscript on
he thought his dreams of director stardom were gone forever.

But this year a friend uncovered a paper copy and Mark, who lives with
wife Michele, aged 32, in Great Barr, decided to try again.

Mark, who works as a business development manager, said: "I was so
excited when I found it. This is the version with a few tweaks that
exists today, except every day I think of a new gag or remove something
someone doesn't like.

"It is totally amateur, made with love and no real budget but I am
blagging loads of locations and actors.

Mark, whose wife Michele is originally from Indianapolis, America, has
used the social networking website gumtree to place adverts for willing
actors and production staff.

Mark added: "We now have 18 actors and between 10 and 12 crew.

"We have the use of a green screen to do special effects and I had
an ex-SAS soldier to be a stuntman."

The wannabe director has also been allowed to use of Birmingham's
Custard Factory art centre as a set.

He is hoping to have his production ready for screening in March.







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-version-of-blade-runner-97319-22222422/