How to successfully attract beginner or wannabee movie makers for major sequel film for MGM -type film-makers?

I'm making a movie about disabled veterans and their frustrations with the V.A. It's a sequel to a successful 2007 MGM movie. How can I find young wannabee actors, camera crew, SFX computer wizz's, musicians, set designers, marketers, assistant directors, writers, etc among young people? I have hopes that a major movie company like MGM will buy and distribute; I plan to film in America, Israel and Russia.How to successfully attract beginner or wannabee movie makers for major sequel film for MGM -type film-makers?
Any movie begins with a solid and quality script. If you believe you have that, then it is up to you to find adequate financing. How much money do you need? That's up to the requirements of the script and how you would like this movie to look like.





Almost any movie can be completed with ';aspiring wannabees,'; but usually, only quality can be obtained by using qualified and talented people, both in front of the camera and behind it. And quality generally means that those people are experienced and aren't interested in working for free for anyone. They don't have to, they've already put in their time working on low and no-budget projects and by this point, they have lives to lead and bills to pay. Unless your project is so inherently ';important'; that it will attract that kind of skilled and experienced talent, you'll have to make do with lower qualified, yet ';enthusiastic'; people.





What this means for you is that if you do have enough money for equipment, flights, shipping, hotels, insurance, film/tape, lighting, post-production, and contingencies, but not enough to pay PEOPLE, then you will be left with a pool of inexperienced crew and cast who may compromise the ultimate quality of the project.





So, if your finished project doesn't look like a high-quality ';Hollywood'; film, then your chances of it being picked up by a major distributor shrink. This isn't to say that it's impossible, but the competition as seen at the American Film Market and Cannes Film Market (not the festivals!) is considerable. Your film has to be extremely amazing if you want it to be distributed by anyone serious. In this day and age, it typically means having at least one ';movie star'; on screen and that it truly looks like a high quality movie.





With that in mind, again, your script has to be amazing. If it is that good, then the chances are that an established Agent and/or studio Producer will want to make the movie and make it with money behind it. You can find independent financing as so many others have, but you still have to convince those people that your project is worth their investment AND you still then have to convince a distributor that your movie will bring in boxoffice revenue.





As far as the ';sequel'; aspect goes, as stated, you do not have the rights to create a direct sequel to anything unless you created the first one. But, if your story is compelling enough on it's own, you should not need to ride the coattails of something that was made previously. Just worry about writing the best story you can and then do your best to attract the most money and best talent to your project as possible. If you believe that much in your story, don't settle for ';good enough.'; Reach for the best you can and hold your passion tight every single day. Nothing less will do.











Brian Dzyak


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okay I'll bite.


#1 Do you have any MONEY. real money, MILLIONS of dollars? NONE of this is cheap no matter what anyone tells you. You get what you pay for.


If you think a bunch of wanna be etc will make a good movie, your wrong. It will look like a home video. You just don't wake up and know how to do all those crafts.





#2 do you OWN the rights to what ever movie you want to make a sequel to?


No rights NO MOVIE.





Let me put it this way. You might have a GREAT story for an Indiana Jones movie. But even if you had millions to make it and called it an Indiana jones movie etc, you'd be sued by Lucasfilm and Paramount for more copyrite infringements than you can imagine.