About this project

Underbelly Blues is a Gangster Comedy feature film to be shot in October, 2010. Showcasing some of the best comic talent in Hollywood today, it will be directed by award winning writer/director, Phil Messerer, whose vampire dark comedy, Thicker Than Water, (bloodjunky.com), has won over a dozen awards on the international festival circuit and received over a hundred positive reviews.

The plot of Underbelly Blues follows a mysterious briefcase as it exchanges hands amongst the colorful denizens of the underworld. These include a corrupt cop, a sleazy strip club owner, a pair of lesbian strippers, an ex-military gun-for-hire who suffers from O.C.D. and has a penchant for creative torture, a Jewish pawnshop owner and his dominatrix mother, a British sophisticate who cooks crystal meth, a pair of surfer pot dealers, a legally blind albino gangster, a 7 foot tall, 400 lb neo-nazi, a sexual deviant redneck, a wild-eyed Mexican named Take It Easy, and a brilliant 'brain' called The Architect. All of these characters are connected through a series of bizarre coincidences which inevitably lead to the downfall of corporate America as the rivalry between two soft drink companies goes out of control.

Rather than casting actors for parts, the director gathered 26 underground comic virtuosos and asked them to create their own characters (one for each letter of the alphabet). For the next two months the actors / comedians lent their characters to weekly improv sessions which were then turned into a feature length screenplay. The video above showcases some memorable moments from these sessions. Note that they are completely unscripted.

So If you're sick of seeing the same five faces on your movie screens, here's your chance to help us introduce this awesome fresh batch of talent to audiences everywhere. Thanks for your support.

Go to UNDERBELLYBLUES.COM for more info and regular updates.