The Kill Corporation - Episode Two

senderos (62)in #stories • 8 years ago

Episode Two of the sci-fi satire The Kill Corporation.

Newton Springer, the greatest Terminal Arbiter in the world, goes insane and begins killing all the CEOs he can. Why would he bite the hand that feeds him? You'll have to watch to find out.

The powerful executives of this world are beholden to Terminal Arbiters like anyone, except that they have more wealth to use for the expected bribes. It is possible it is the executive class itself which invented the system of Terminal Arbitration, a cut-throat, insane philosophy of greed-based civilization born out of business schools and board rooms.

NOTES:

This was out big FX episode, and it was a tough day. Shot in one 18 hour day in a green screen sound stage, we had to flip the set around instead of the camera, which made for some confusing moments for us. The most fun part of the day was the exploding chest gag, which shot latex guts into the rafters of the warehouse location, where they still remain.

The Kill Corporation cost about 60 thousand dollars in total, a painfully small budget for a sci-fi dystopian action show with a large cast, stunts and a world to build. When we sent it to a contact at HBO, they laughed and told us to shoot it again for a million bucks, and maybe they would care.

Tough business.

Here's another test poster we did. A mock up with existing art.