"Priest" - My Thoughts

I'm going to take a time out from posting stories for a moment (for I have none to post...) to discuss a film that comes out today, "Priest".

I haven't seen "Priest" and I don't intend to, so this should all be taken with a grain of salt, but from what I've heard the film isn't all that great.  This is of great disappointment to me for several reasons, but mostly because I read an early version of the script when they were casting the Cam Gigandet role, and I loved it.  I have nothing against the casting of Mr. Gigandet, but a client of ours (I was working for a management company at the time) was also reading for the role and frankly (I'm biased because I love this guy) he was (is) amazing, and brought a whole different level of depth as opposed to what the character seems to have become.  And that is a microcosm of what I believe happened to "Priest."  Most of the promise was ripped away in favor of the flashy, high gloss nothingness, that happens to genre films when studios are trying to appeal to a mass audience (the four quadrants, if you will).  I believe this way of thinking to be incredibly flawed.

Skyforge

I have been absent for several weeks but return to you with the force of a locomotive....(?)

"Skyforge" is the story of the Mor'Gant family of Tegen Cove, the creation of a powerful sword forged from a falling star, and how it destroyed them all...

Another tale from the Perilous Woods.

Download Link:  Skyforge

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Skyforge

In a remote corner of the vast Perilous Woods lived a blacksmith of noble birth.  Fin Mor’Gant was from one of the most renowned families in all the Kingdom.  Unfortunately, the Mor’Gants of Tegen Cove had long ago lost their wealth, their land, and their people.  Now all that remained was a broken, sordid castle threatening to destroy itself at the slightest breeze, and of course, a famous name. 

            As the years piled themselves on top of one another and ages came and went, the Perilous Woods slowly, but with monumental force, reclaimed its lost land.  By the time Fin was born in a crumbling tower on the highest level of the Mor’Gant keep, it was the only part of his home not yet taken by the forest.  In fact, you could no longer see were the woods began and ended.  It was an unending sea of green leaves and black branches broken up by the chimney smoke of small villages that dotted across the horizon.