Thursday is the first feature I ever made. It is a bar comedy about four guys and their adventures on a Thursday night as they go out trying to meet girls. This version is the original version that premiered at the Gish Film Theater on Dec. 7, 2001. While I have always wanted to go in and re-edit this film, I felt that it was important to present the original version for historical reasons.
Part of the reason that I want to re-edit this film is that it was released after the events of September 11, 2001. Although I started to write the script in the spring of 2000 and started to shoot it in the spring of 2001, some pick up shots were done in the fall of 2001. I was busy editing the film at that time. It wasn't until a year later that I realized that I had the main character "pulling a 911". As I originally had this in the script, it meant to approach a girl with such a force that she would fall for you. It was a suicide mission as far as the guys who are players in the movie are concerned. This was never intended to be a reference to the events of September 11th. This has always bothered me. I have wanted to try to edit it differently for this reason.
I also have personal reasons for wanting to re-edit this film. This script was written after I had finished a draft of Life. I started out writing a very anti-romantic love story. Life was just such a love story that I wanted to do something different. I wanted a love story set in the midst of drunken bar scene that had nothing really to do with love. The problem was that I started to have romantic feelings for somebody during the filming. That part of the love story was constantly being rewritten. I now have several versions of the love story that I can edit together. It can either be a love story or more of the anti-love story that I originally wrote. Since I am no longer possessed of those feelings of love for a certain somebody, I want to re-edit this film and actually focus on the various edits that I can make with it.
Like I said, this is the original version. It is presented here for the first time on DVD in anamorphic widescreen and Dolby Digital sound. You can find it on Amazon on DVD, download to rent, or download to own.