DAVID SCOTT HAY’S “Hard Scrambled” will have its world premiere at the Cinequest Film Festival March 1-12 in San Jose, Calif.
“This has been eight years from writing the play to getting the movie out there and having an audience beyond my living room,” Hay said.
A co-founder of Visions & Voices Theatre, Hay adapted the “Hard Scrambled” script from his own play.
An epic contest for control of a greasy spoon, “Hard Scrambled” will have its East Coast premiere at the Garden State Film Festival, March 30-April 2 in Asbury Park, New Jersey.
Kurtwood Smith (“That 70’s Show,” “The Trouble With Dee Dee”), Richard Edson (“Do the Right Thing”), and Eyal Podell (“Sucker Free City”) star in “Hard Scrambled,” as diner denizens aiming to fill the power vacuum created when the owner (Beth Grant, “Matchstick Men”) is incapacitated in a deep fryer mishap. Featuring Alanna Ubach (“Meet the Fockers”).
Producers Eric Bauer (publisher of Creative Screenwriting magazine), James P. Mercurio and Dean L. Morino raised the under-$500,000 budget from private investors. Principal photography was 13 days in Los Angeles in 2003, with pickup shoots the following summer.
Hay is putting the finishing touches on four feature scripts, two geared to Hollywood, two for the indie world, that he plans to have ready for potential producers by the time he gets to Cinequest.
