Jeff Fisher

by Jeff Fisher My living room when I got the call: Cardboard Box Central That was my living room. Or what used to be my living room, when I got a call about a directing opportunity that was way out of my comfort zone. It was a Friday afternoon. Movers were coming Tuesday morning. I was leaving for a shoot in Chicago on Wednesday. I still had A LOT of packing to do. A good friend of mine had just had dinner with a producer on a football movie that had suddenly lost its director. Three...

On the set of KILLER MOVIE by Jeff Fisher You can read Part 1 of this story here: https://www.reeltalkwithjeff.com/post/how-i-got-my-first-feature-film-made-part-1-dead-bodies-paris-hilton-and-a-thousand-no-s After a thousand "No's," a last-minute financing swing, and some epic casting luck, I arrived in Minneapolis ready to shoot my first feature film. There was just one problem: the snow was gone. "Dead of Winter" would need a new name. But that was the least of my worries. THE COEN...

by Jeff Fisher With Paul Wesley and Kaley Cuoco on the set of KILLER MOVIE Sometimes your first feature film gets born out of the most challenging circumstances. For me, it was February in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. 17 degrees below zero. No cell service. No internet. Just me, my dog, howling wind, and an endless parade of locals telling me horrific accidental death stories. This is how my first feature "Killer Movie" came to be. THE SCRIPTED DREAM Even though my short films were a romantic...