PRODUCTION UPDATE



  Patrick Keegan says he named his Brooklyn coming-of-age comedy The Regulars after the Replacements song and that if he can get the rights he'll use that as the title track. The film takes off as a group of drinking buddies and lifelong best friends get ready for their one escapee's annual return. He's their mirage, returning once each year to drag them to the city to meet girls - but this year's different: They're about to find out he's been completely misrepresenting himself and his circumstances. Keegan, 28, calls The Regulars a thinly veiled roman a clef about people he knew growing up, and the mostly nonprofessional actors include several of them playing themselves. Other Keegan friends on the cast list include singer Carole King and 29th Street's Frank Pesce.

A Brooklyn native who fled a lifetime of Catholic education for L.A. after high school, Keegan spent five years trying to establish an acting career, working mostly as an extra in films like The Doors and Thelma and Louise. Returning east in 1993, he put himself through film school at the The School of Visual Arts and financed The Regulars by working as a Park Avenue doorman. Keegan says his L.A. years paid off when screenwriter John Bennett (The Last Fair Deal) agreed to produce the microbudget Regulars and brought actor Stephen Baldwin, one of his old friends, on as executive producer.

The Regulars shot through the night on eight consecutive weekends in February and March - Keegan's only option since most of his actors had full-time day jobs they couldn't afford to quit. Bennett had done an Irish indie, Brothers in Arms, in Dublin last year and was able to parlay connections made there into a better deal on an AVID suite than the filmmakers could have managed in New York. At press time the Regulars team was still in Ireland pushing towards a finished film by late fall; all rights are available.

Cast: Joe Farley, K.C. Landis, Kevin Lynch, Tommy Molloy, Jamie Farley, John Wedlock, Aidan Rice, Frank Pesce, Carole King. Crew: Producers, John Bennett, Patrick Keegan; Executive Producers, Joe Farley, Stephen Baldwin; Screenwriter/Director, Keegan; Cinematographer, Curtis Mackowe; Sound, Tony Liford; Lighting, Tommy Roache; Post Production Supervisor, Paul Holmes; Editor, Stephen O'Connell. Contact Filmmaker Magazine for the producers' current address.



 
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