“Trenches” Webseries Update
We’ve been waiting for this show for literally years and it’s finally coming back! Trenches was initially scheduled to be released in the first quarter of 2009, but one year later we still didn’t see anything online beyond the trailer. Creator Shane Felux found many reasons to blame on his blog, but most of all the usual industry issues putting up roadblocks. For a simple hand-to-mouth film-maker like Shane, that can be incredibly furstrating. Our hearts were with you, Shane.
But, to quote the ever popular Dolly Levi: “If you have to live from hand to mouth, you better be ambidextrous!”, Shane kept himself busy working, shooting and even selling of props from his previous internet sensation, the Lucas-blessed Star Wars fan-film Revelations.
And continually pushing the release for his epic (guess, what it had a $250k budget!) web series that Disney so unceremoniously had tossed aside. Indeed, after The Great Web Series Rush of ‘08 web studios such as Stage 9 got dropped like naughty puppies that had seemed so cute at first, and shows like Trenches got rejected like something the puppy had coughed up.
But then the sky opened up and the New York Times broke the news: Trenches is going to Crackle.com, thanks to a deal with Sony.
Indie film-makers world-wide rejoiced! One of us finally ran the industry-blockade and made it beyond Greenlitland into the Nation of Distribution. February 16 is the big day for all you non-geoblocked viewers. For everyone else, they promised eventual YouTube uploads.
In celebration, here is the trailer. No, its not yet another horrible Starship Troopers sequel or a long-lost conclusion to Space: Above and Beyond. No, it does not look like any other generic war-in-space movie/TV show.
Well, okay, maybe a little.