This project may or may not ever get completed. A few shots can be seen in "2024: The New Era" highlight video but those vary a great deal in quality - some finished, some still in very early rough draft phase. But, it was simply a fun, action-centric video , like any other that was popular in those days of Youtube thanks to FreddieW & RocketJump. Unfortunately, it had ZERO story, and not much in character personality or arcs, themes, or .. anything of true value.
Now that technology has evolved to the point where it is much easier and MUCH quicker to do a lot of the work on these older videos in a matter of days if not hours, that would've required a year or two of 12 hour days non-stop, PERHAPS this silly, mindless video WILL get completed.. someday. But it is not a priority at all.
Clonemageddon is the unofficial FOURTH and final entry into LoneStar Pictures "silly" trilogy - now a quadrilogy - that included Overly Dramatic Breakfast, Duel Control, & TimeSpawning.
The story: A young man with an attitude is told to do his chores. He instead creates some clones to do the chores for him. Chaos, gunfire, and explosions ensue.
It was inspired from 2RockinTwins ULTIMATE VFX CHALLENGE in early 2012. Even though it wasn't finished in time to enter the highly competitive contest, it was still a fun opportunity to make a silly, non-serious action movie.
The video stars Colton Frazier, Michael ("TimeSpawning") Fuqua's friend.We were originally going to have Mikey Fuqua play the main character, but this was too similar a project to TimeSpawning (also involving clones) and it was a good opportunity to get Frazier's acting feet wet since he was going to be joining Fuqua in more video productions in the future.
Since clones are involved, THIS is officially the FINAL project that includes scripted dialogue for non-professional actors. All future LSP productions will be ad-libbed, improvised, retroscripted, using a script as a guide only for untrained performers.
This video was filmed in about 4 days, spread out over several weekends. It COULD have been completed in 2 days, but we all spent all-nighters playing Modern Warfare 3 until past sunrise, then sleeping most of the day. The 4th day was re-shoots involving gun-play and physical blood, as it was deemed the scenes, as originally shot, were lacking (in quality, excitement, direction, photography, and pretty much in every way possible).
Originally there were almost 20 blood packs prepared to be used for the deaths. However, fate had other plans. We were running very short on time as the sun was about to go down. The prep time for only ONE blood pack was 10 to 20 minutes; the blood made a MUCH, M-U-C-H bigger mess than we anticipated (cleaning up/resetting the actor and his clothes would have taken FOREVER to complete the shots). The one blood hit we managed to complete looked HORRIBLE. So we decided to use (shivers) DIGITAL BLOOD... UGH!!