Well, it worked. Director and special effects master Stephan Zlotescu made a great little sci-fi short film called True Skin not too long ago in hopes to get a feature film deal out of it to launch his filmmaking career, and he got it! Warner Bros. acquired the project less than a week after the short popped up online.
The studio has brought on Harry Potter producer David Heyman to produce the project. As for Zlotescu, he will get to direct the feature film, and his partner Chris Sewall will be a co-producer.
The short is set in the not-too-distant future where everyone is augmenting their bodies. The story’s hero can't afford to augment in the U.S., so he heads to the black market of Bangkok where he gets a hold of a mysterious chip that he discovers is slowly turning him robotic -- and is a hot commodity wanted by shadowy forces.
The feature will incorporate that aspect as it thrusts the hero in a race against time to elude his pursuers and save what's left of his humanity.
This has the potential to be a pretty awesome movie, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out. It's crazy cool to see these short films getting picked up by studios. It just goes to show, if you make something that looks good, there's a real chance that it could launch a filmmaking career for you if that's what you want to do. For those of you who haven't watched the short yet, you can watch it below! Do you think it will make for a good movie?