New Web Presence

Progress on The Third Age continues slowly, but surely. We're starting up the process of pitching and securing distribution more seriously, even as we continue to shoot and shoot. The goal is to finish shooting on the whole project by the end of June, which could possibly be before an episode is even released. Crazy stuff, but you'll see it soon enough.

But, as part of that pitching process, I'm gradually expanding the web presence. The official site is now built and up and www.thethirdagebegins.com. It's mostly just links to content on the blog now, but I'll be building it up and fleshing it out over the next few weeks.

In addition, and more relevant for readers here, we've now got a Facebook page for T3A. Go here, and friend us to get the latest updates on the progress of The Third Age.

Also, I'll be at the New York Comicon this weekend, hanging out at the Sequart booth. I'm there to promote my forthcoming book on Grant Morrison's The Invisibles, called Our Sentence is Up. But, I'll have some T3A postcards there, they look great, so come by and grab one. Hopefully I'll see you there.

Poster Concept

Episode by Episode: 6-10

Episode By Episode: 1-5

Alicia in Red

Alicia, played by Charlie Miller, basks in the red light.

October 5th Shoot

Here's a series of images from our shoot last Sunday. We had some excellent makeup work here, which is shown off in the photos. Currently, we've got three days of shooting left on Volume I, with any luck, principal photography will wrap by Thanksgiving.

The October Update

Some time ago, I was discussing a February 2008 launch date for the series. Obviously that has come and gone long ago, but progress on the series continues. Rather than do a bi-weekly format as was originally planned, we're going to be putting out episodes weekly. The first season/volume has four shooting days remaining, one of which will happen on Sunday, hopefully we will be wrapped with the whole volume by November, one year after shooting commenced. Considering we'll have shot the equivalent of a feature in a year, working around full time jobs for nearly everyone involved, I think that's not too bad.

So, when will the show actually be released? Well, right now we're in talks with a distributor who's got some really interesting things going on. We're hoping to come to a deal soon, and will announce it here once things are official. And, after that we're looking at a launch date in the January 2009 range. Obviously all of this is theoretical since no one has actually seen the show, but things are happening, and soon you'll have an episode to look forward to every week for 13 weeks.