Lucky Rabbit Films Developing Feature Film
Lucky Rabbit Films is currently developing a feature film based on the novel written by Joey Goebel titled Torture the Artist.
The $3.5 million film is a satirical drama, focusing on artistic freedom of choice in a society with a lack of integrity. The production team consists of Screenwriter/Author Joey Goebel, Director Ryan Scheer, Producer Andrew Johnston, Assistant Director Jeff Ray, Co-Producer Hunter Holder, Screenwriter Evan Greenberg and Director of Photography Matyas Erdely.
Joey Goebel, author/screenwriter is internationally known for his dark comedic novels, which include Torture the Artist, The Anomalies and Commonwealth. With his greatest success in Germany, Torture the Artist has sold nearly 100,000 copies and been translated into thirteen different languages. Goebel has personally been featured in Der Spiegal and Diezeit, the German equivalents to Newsweek and Time Magazine. Though Goebel, 28, has yet to gain such fame in his own country, he has a resume that most writers can only hope for in a lifetime.
Currently, Goebel is adapting his famed novel Torture the Artist into a screenplay that will be developed by Lucky Rabbit Films in to a feature film. The film follows the journey of a sensitive young romantic Vincent Spinetti, who falls victim to alienation, parental neglect, poverty, depression, alcoholism, illness, nervous breakdowns, unrequited love, and eventually becomes an archetypal tortured artist. Vincent is painfully unaware of the fact that these torments are due to secret manipulations of the jaded writer/ ex- musician Harlan Eiffler, who carries out the dirty work for New Renaissance, an experimental entertainment organization that is testing the age-old idea of art coming from suffering. Torture the Artist is anticipated to start production in the fall of 2010, with an expected release date in 2011.
