**ONE-OF-A-KIND SORDID STANDUP COMEDY SPECIAL with LESLIE JORDAN, CAROLINE RHEA & DEL SHORES - **ON THE SAME STAGE**
**JUST ADDED** Get a standup comedy special, one-night-only show with LESLIE JORDAN, CAROLINE RHEA & DEL SHORES! Select this perk and you can use it for your organization, or donate it to your favorite charity and let them use it as a fundraiser - unique evening - ONLY ONE AVAILABLE!!
***HEY BIG SPENDERS***
$5000 gets you EVERY SINGLE PERK FROM THIS CAMPAIGN!!!
For the superfan with superfunds - get it all and keep it for yourself or regift it out!! Includes a NYE tickets, 2 Palm Springs tickets, ALL the Lug Nuts, 10 Sissy Rubber bands, LaVonda's Senchus Package, Leslie Jordan Thank Yewww video, Levi Sermon, Voice Memo, an interview on The Del & Emerson Show, the Sordid Lives signed Film Poster, The Sissies package with exclusive signed film poster, Collector's Edition DVD and film script - EVERYTHING!!! (Except the Wedding and Del Shores appearance!)
TWO SPOTS LEFT for SORDID NYE!!
**A PALM SPRING SORDID SOIREE AFTERNOON GARDEN PARTY WITH THE CAST**
This party with cast members will be January 3, 2015, 2-5PM in Palm Springs, CA. **You must select the perk multiple times to get multiple tickets - one time for each guest** Address: The beautiful Palm Springs Movie Colony - 1010 East Via Altamira Palm Springs, CA 92262. Additional information will be sent once this campaign is finished!
A PERSONALIZED FIRE & BRIMSTONE SERMON FROM LEVI KREIS!
FOR THE FINAL DAYS - YOUR CHOICE OF LUG NUT! BONNIE BEDELIA ADDED!
***HEY BIG SPENDERS***
Any SUPER FAN who gives $5000 or more will get ONE OF EVERY SINGLE PERK!!! (Excluding the performance by Del and Your Own Sordid Wedding) Every lug Nut, poster, package, DVD, voice memo - EVERYTHING!! (Click the DONATE button, and enter your own amount - this is not listed as a specific perk!)
A VERY SORDID WEDDING
THE SORDID SEQUEL COMES TO LIFE!
Sordid Lives, by Del Shores, hit the big screen in 2000 and became a huge cult hit phenomenon with its hilarious and authentic exploration of the antics of the residents of Winters, TX. The film was followed by Sordid Lives: The Series, a prequel for LOGO. Now, after years of fans asking for a follow up with these beloved characters, Del Shores has written a sequel, the final chapter in the Sordid Lives saga - A Very Sordid Wedding.
The original film explored the coming out story and how conservative southern families deal with gay family members. The sequel picks up 16 years later and continues the comedic exploration of important issues by addressing marriage equality. The characters audiences fell so in love with have all moved forward to new places, some good, some ridiculous, and as always with this colorful cast - always entertaining.
Del Shores has spent this entire year writing the new script, bringing back all of these beloved characters and carefully shaping what they are each up to after so many years. The story is once again hilarious, touching and addressing an issue affecting LGBT people and their communities and families with Del's trademark subversive humor and heart.
SEE THE TRAILER FOR THE ORIGINAL FILM HERE
WHAT THIS CAMPAIGN WILL ACHIEVE
Sordid Lives was a slow burn to huge success, and this campaign is designed to make the funds available to begin putting the sequel together. All of these funds will go to putting the elements in place to make the sequel possible! Funds are needed:
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To pay for legal fees. Putting together all of the legal elements needed for the film, as well as ensuring that all of the correct legal paperwork protects the investors who come on board to make the film possible.
- To pay for a budget. To ensure we correctly plan what size budget will be needed to make this film happen in a way that will make the actors, crew and the audience happy with the telling of this story.
- To host investor events. This will be a low budget film, but it will still require qualified investors to finance the film. We will be searching diligently for those with the financial capability to invest in the film who love the original and believe in the message of Del's work.
- To pay for the script. Del has spent the entire year writing it, and as a member of the Writer's Guild Union, the production company must pay for the script.
- Pre-production expenses. The costs of getting everything ready until the financing is in place and the film can be greenlit!
OUR GOAL IS TO SHOOT SPRING 2015!!
The goal of this campaign is to raise the funds to find the investors to make A Very Sordid Wedding a reality. Quickly!! WE PLAN TO SHOOT IN DALLAS! We will be looking for airline sponsors to get the cast to Dallas, hotel sponsors to help with housing and locals to fill a variety of positions supporting the film. We will be working to ensure that the entire budget is spent economically and spent in the most important places. Once we have a realistic budget and the investors on board to make it a reality, it will be time to shoot!
WHO'S COMING BACK?!
Del has just reached out to every cast member, sending them the script to read to see if they are available to join us for the sequel! As you can see from the video above, many have already said yes!! Including:
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Leslie Jordan as Brother Boy
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Bonnie Bedelia as Latrelle
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Caroline Rhea as Noleta
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Ann Walker as LaVonda
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Kirk Geiger as Ty
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Rosemary Alexander as Dr. Eve
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Newell Alexander as Wardell
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David Steen as G.W.
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David Cowgill as Odell
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Sarah Hunley as Juanita
As we have more information on casting, we will share it with you! Also, there will be a bunch of fun new characters and new faces to meet as the story moves forward! **ADDITIONAL CASTING WILL BE ANNOUNCED THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN!!
WHAT'S THE STORY??
It's 2014, sixteen years after Peggy's funeral and life has moved on up to the present for the residents of Winters, Texas. Sissy is reading the Bible, cover to cover, trying to understand what it says about gay people. Latrelle and Wilson are divorced. Ty is on his way back to town with his man. Noleta's mother is in the hospital. G.W. is still mourning Peggy. Juanita is obsessed with the royal family. Wardell and Odell are still bickering at the bar. Vera's on a new crusade and Roger's still ratting everyone's hair. Brother Boy hasn't been back to Winters since the funeral and he's working at a tragic little gay bar in Longview, performing his new medley act "We Three Queens of Oper-y Are" till a dramatic turn of events sends him on the run. Again. An anniversary memorial service is being planned for Peggy at the bar while the Southside Baptist Church is planning an "Anti-Equality Rally" to protest the advancement of same-sex marriage, spearheaded by Vera Lisso and Mrs. Barnes. Both events take place on the same night, so our cast of colorful characters are all on a collision course for shenanigans and fireworks at the church and bar on the big night! Along the way we'll meet a host of new faces - Ty's man, Wilson, Wilson's new woman, the new Southside preacher, Noleta's mother, several drag queens and a bisexual serial killer. All on our way to the wedding!! But between who??! That -- you will have to wait to find out!
The way the original film dealt with coming out in a conservative southern world, A Very Sordid Wedding deals with the questions, concerns and fallout of what happens as marriage equality comes to communities and families that are not quite ready to deal with it - all with Del's trademark approach to using comedy to deal with important issues and the very real process of accepting your family for who they are instead of who you want them to be.
THEN WHAT'S NEXT?!
Our goal for this campaign is $96,270. (For those of you wondering about the random goal number - in continuing our "$32.09" theme - it is three times $32,090 - so three of them - and we're there!) The more we raise the closer we will be to making A Very Sordid Wedding happen. This campaign will create the budget, pay for the script and allow us to seek out the investors who will fund the film! The film will start shooting as soon as those funds are in place! For any and all questions, email us at sordidwedding@gmail.com
SEE SOME OF THE PERKS!
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NEW PERKS WILL BE ADDED WEEKLY!!
Thanks for being a part of the Sordid Lives family and helping us tell the final story in A Very Sordid Wedding!
