Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Linus was in a movie!!”.
Got another one here from David Linus: if, given the option, would you ever be in a movie? There’S a book and soon to be film called project Hail Mary? You should read it while reading it. I pictured you as the character, Steve hatch. Look him up. Okay, uh, I mean maybe enough time, has Pat hi hey, oh that yeah, okay! Yes, yes, that’s what I’m going to talk about? Okay, maybe enough time has passed that this is clearly like not happening.
Yeah is that is that the answer I don’t know are we? Okay, should you do this? I think, as long as we don’t name any names or reveal any plot details, I think we can probably talk about it at this point. That seems fine. Okay, I did act in a movie um.
It was like hold on I’m gon na I’m gon na. Look it up because I’m probably gon na get the date wrong. Luke actually helped out a lot with it, because some key parts of the plot were highly Technical and or related to hacking. And we were told that super whack.
We were told that it was kind of important to them that the details of because it was kind of a central plot point, we were told that the details of it um were important. They they wanted it to. You know obviously the suspension of disbelief right but uh they wanted it to not be completely stupid. You know um so Luke and I actually spent many hours uh. Thank you, Luke and not all of it got approved and and if this thing comes out, there’s gon na be like.
If it comes out, it’s going to be brain dead, stupid I’ll, say that I’ll say that, because Luke and I went through a version made sure that everything kind of made sense, yeah and then from my understanding and I could be wrong, it could actually end up Being really good, but from my understanding, so many significant things changed after Luke and I kind of went okay, we’ve nailed down all your technical stuff, it actually kind of makes sense um by the way you need to like fundamentally change some stuff, because that is shockingly Dumb there was some like actually like really bad. I I was. I was cc’d with the script writer, not realizing it when I like, I don’t know like like any any eighth grader should know that that is stupid um.
I didn’t go quite that hard, but that was my tone: um anywho, so Luke and I Luke, and I made a bunch of changes and we’re like okay. It actually is kind of coherent. Now I thought our changes were pretty good. Actually yeah it was. It was like the the the the people people gon na, be asking for the Luke and Linus cut. At some point.
I think yeah um, the version that I looked at after those changes were made that pretty much undid a lot of the changes and took a third path in many other ways, was kind of bad yeah, pretty dumb yeah. He sent it to me and he was like well, I’m sure glad we spent many hours making this not stupid, yeah um. At some point I I had.
I had asked uh about or okay at some point there was a discussion around me being credited as like. A technical advisor for like the the stuff – and I was like yeah it should be both of us, but I think that would be super cool um and after we got the like final version, I was like hey. Not only am I chill with you guys, not putting me in the credits, but I would actually prefer to not.
Please don’t yeah. Do not credit me with this, because this is no longer even remotely intelligible. As far as the the tech side goes, it was kind of fun to do. It’S just disappointing that they they didn’t yeah.
It was a fun process and, like honestly, what it turned into was Luke, and I just like growing out and talking about tech, because it was like. Oh what about the feasibility of this and like? Oh, this scene makes absolutely no sense for this character. How about we not have that happen, because it also makes no sense in any way yeah um and we like essentially rewrote a lot of a lot of the movie yeah um, so we just got hung out. The only difference was we didn’t. Have a camera pointed at us uh, so it’s like fine, I’m not even mad and like it’s not I wasn’t, neither of us was being paid for it.
I didn’t offer to pay, you did I because I wasn’t being paid for it yeah. I don’t like think so. Yeah I don’t know if it was, it was really small yeah. We ended up just like hanging out yeah um. It was mostly because we were like interested yeah, so, okay, here’s, the latest update. I have on it in uh September of 2021, I emailed someone and basically said hey just wanted to see.
If anything came of the redacted movie uh, my email is just checking in is it dead seems dead, and I got a reply. Uh actually quite a bit. Uh, no, no shortly after that, yeah shortly after that, not dead still in post-production, and I said um, oh cool, all right any idea when it’s coming and then I heard back NADA, it will be up to the studio that was over a year ago, um when It was actually shot was here’s my call sheet from November of 2020.
yeah, so it was shot two years ago, a year ago I was told it was still in post-production and um. I haven’t heard anything since then. I haven’t followed it up since a year ago. Maybe I should so like.
Maybe it is still maybe it’s still a thing and some people are making comments. Uh someone said that there were so many complaints about hacking, scenes and movies being bad, that a bunch of scriptwriters started trying to make them intentionally bad stuff. Like that, that would explain a few movies that I’ve seen we didn’t try to make it like hyper realistic. To be clear. There was parts that were just like if you were watching it and you found Electronics remotely interesting. You would have been like what is even happening yeah, so we tried to like fix that so, like things actually made like some amount of sense, um, that that was more the goal, we also tried to make it like kind of fun. So we we added some things that would just be like entertaining yeah but yeah yeah, so uh anyway, I don’t know maybe it’ll show up at some point. I will not be telling you guys anything about like I, I signed an NDA, I’m obviously gon na respect.
It I’m not going to tell you guys anything about anyone who was involved in it like there’s, and I can tell you guys, there’s no way that you’re gon na get it right. If you try to take anything that we talked about today and figure out what exactly we’re talking about, there’s no way there’s just no way. So if it comes out um, I’m pretty sure my opinion. My appearance is classified as a cameo, so I’m not even going to be in the credits or anything I’ll, just like be there and you’ll be like what, but you probably won’t watch the movie anyway.
So you probably won’t see me and you probably won’t be like what but yeah yeah so so I was it was. It was fun, it was interesting, it was cool uh. I would. I would totally be down to do something like that again. Like I said it was for like no pay at all. I just didn’t. I didn’t care, I have a job, I don’t need to make money acting and like I’m, not a good actor. So obviously you know I’m not gon na expect to be paid to be an actor, but it was.
It was definitely fun. It was fun, it was not a porno .