Welcome!

Hi folks, and welcome to our first blog for Out of the Wild!

First, we want to express our deep gratitude and appreciation to all of you for your interest and support of our film. We have always felt that getting this film off the ground was going to take a grass roots effort involving people from all walks of life getting behind it, and thanks to all of you, that is exactly what has happened.

Over the next several months, and as we move the project forward from pre-production, and then into actual production, this will be the place for you to come to get the most up to date information about what’s going on and how things are going. We will be sending out notifications to all of you as soon as each new blog is available, and as the project gets farther along, the blogs will no doubt come with more frequency. However, for right now, you can expect to hear from us at least once a month until production begins in September.

So, with all of that said, here is the news so far.

Back in March the production team, Paul Krizan (director,) Ben Ashbrook (producer) and Mark Rashid (writer/producer) all traveled to Las Vegas, NV, to scout locations for the film. We were quite lucky in that we found and secured the majority of the locations needed all within about a ten mile radius of each other, with one location, that of the town/rodeo grounds, around an hour and a half away near the Arizona, Nevada border. The general area in which we will be filming will be the same area where we filmed the trailer that is on the movie’s website www.outofthewildmovie.com.

Casting began a few months ago, with several actors having committed to fill specific roles such as Henry, Sam Mitchell, Chad and Tom Essex. We are also in talks with other actors/actresses for many of the other roles and will no doubt have more information about them in future blogs. In addition, we have also chosen the composer and musicians who will be working on the original score for the film, along with musicians that will play in the band for the movie’s dance scene.

Over the past couple years, we have been working diligently to acquire some of the most important props that will be used in the film. Some of the props needed are so unique and “one of a kind” that we had to actually have them built specifically by hand by some amazing craftsmen and women. Two such “props” are Henry’s saddle, built by Bob Beecher of Out West Saddlery, and Henry’s trophy belt buckle, which was built by Molly’s Custom Silver Trophy Buckles. Both of these items play huge roles in the film and the care and attention to detail in both will add an authenticity to the film that would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.

We have also searched for and acquired two old pick up trucks for the film. One, a 1959 Ford, is the one that Henry will be driving throughout the film, while the other, a 1966 Ford, is slated to be Jessie’s old ranch truck. Both of these trucks were purchased very reasonably with some minor mechanical issues, all of which will be repaired by our “in house” mechanic, a dear friend who is donating his time to the project.

The horses that will be the primary “using” horses in the film have already begun some of the initial stages of training for the specific roles they will be playing throughout the project. More intensive work with both the horses and the actors who will be handling the horses on screen will begin once the horses are on location, which will be a couple weeks prior to the beginning of production. Along those same lines, the entire wrangling staff, the folks that will be tending to and working with the horses throughout the production, has been chosen and will be on site beginning two weeks prior to production and will stay all the way through to the end.

That’s about it for now. We look forward to sharing more information with you in much more detail as it becomes available!

Stay tuned…..

The Out of the Wild Production Team