![]() Jack knew of when his dad was shot in 1987, almost seven years before he was born. With the cooperation of Litteer Films and dozens of other talented cast and crew members, succeed or fail, our collective passion, energy and effort will go all-in to doing something special.įollow this page and I will do my best to keep you up to date.Jay Dobyns with a black eye playing with his young son Jack (Dobyns family photo) What I hope to do is take their devotion to realism and go lower, dirtier, grittier, nastier to really show an audience what the life of an undercover agent is about and hopefully entertain them along the way. They are industry leaders in hard-core legitimacy. If you are not immediately familiar with those names look them up. I have found inspiration from the friends and mentors I admire like Tony Scott, James Frey, Nils Johnson-Shelton, Stephan Gaghan, Don Ferrarone, Christian Gudegast, Angus Wall and Joe Carnahan. My style is raw and blue-collar, a translation of how I conducted myself as an agent. It is told from a harsh world inhabited by dangerous people. I intend to create a film that is authentic, relevant and beautiful and find entry into the film festival circuit.īig Red Friday will not be for everyone. My goal for Big Red Friday is a reasonable one. I’ve never been afraid to fail but I’ve always been afraid not to try. I set up a very small, a micro-budget independent film company and named it FoFig Films – as in four-figures – as in this is all I had to make a movie. So, I retired after twenty-seven years as a federal agent in January. I consulted on several films regarding undercover tradecraft and eventually earned some paychecks to work as a writing consultant. With “will”, “resilience” and “hope” anything is possible. It is a town of broken dreams and crushed spirits. Hollywood producers and directors were not shy about letting me know that. Some of my early writings were embarrassingly terrible. ![]() For years I “acted” in my undercover roles but that was not nearly as difficult for me as it is to “pretend” in front of a movie camera. In my mind revealing that side of me has been much more threatening. It is something far different and much scarier to “create” and then expose it to the world. It is one thing to live amongst societies predators pretending to be someone you are not with the life and death consequences that come with that. ![]() ![]() Limpet is still one of my all-time favorites.Īfter my book became a New York Times bestseller ( No Angel – My Harrowing Journey to the Inner Circle of the Hells Angels) my “artsy” balls dropped and I found the courage I had lacked to write and let other people read. Some of my earliest childhood memories are of being taken to the theater by my parents. I had always enjoyed the creative writing process but lacked confidence to show anything I had written. It is a testosterone driven land of violence and intimidation and only those who display it are allowed to rule. ![]() Softies don’t survive long or well on the street and they don’t inspire partners to walk by your side. In that life if you were a painter, a musician, a poet, a sculptor, a writer – you were considered soft and too sensitive. It is based on real events from my life and from those of my peers but, told from a fictionalized perspective.įrom the world I thrived in – that of an undercover federal agent – artistic creativity or even an interest in it was looked down on. Big Red Friday the movie is the story of a jaded undercover agent being tracked by a documentary film crew during his last week on the job. ![]()
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