Outlawed Prospects: The End Is Near (2014)

The spaghetti western returns with a vengeance!

After weeks of tracking, U.S. Marshal James Anderson finally confronts Silas Whitaker - the cattle rustler responsible for kidnapping the Marshal's son - in a relentless brawl. But Silas' aggression pushes the honorable Marshal too far, and the tables suddenly turn, revealing the Marshal's true intentions as a dangerous proposition is made.
Which is the crazier man? He who makes this outlawed prospect, or he who takes it?
Men of true honor can never resist the lure of a second chance - even if it means certain death.

Want to hear more about the Outlawed Prospects screenplay? Interested in making the full-length film a reality? Email kevin.dreamwalker(at)gmail.com

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Release date: January 25th, 2014.

Shot on location in the Mojave Desert, near Cuddeback Lake Wilderness Area, Southern California, in August of 2013.

Marshal's Remington New Army supplied by producer Jonathan Rogas.

Silas' Colt Peacemaker supplied by director Kevin Kreger.

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Director's Notes:
- I first started pooling resources for this project during spring semester of college in 2012. After shooting the short film "As Time Stands Still" in 2011 to a very surprising reaction, it became clear to me that I needed to make another tribute to the spaghetti Western; this time, something of a more cinematic scale, and a more authentic spirit. ATST was a fun demonstration in replicating past eras of filmmaking, but that aside, it was a novelty of a little movie, with no real substance or soul, and little purpose. I shot that film more as an exercise than anything, with little effort and no production value, and I felt cheap about it. I wanted to make something REAL, something I really cared about and could be proud of. It became a new goal for me.
Nick Miller and I had been writing a loose movie treatment for about a year now, a project I had named "Outlawed Prospects" in honor of the old PC game "Outlaws" - one of our original inspirations for the story (the Marshal's character borrows his name and likeness from the protagonist of Outlaws). I adapted a climactic scene from the end of the full-length screenplay to stand as a basis for a new short, and this became "The End Is Near".
I started drawing my first storyboards during film class of that semester, and began building the costumes for my two characters as a first step to production value. I worked silently on collecting further resources until the Summer of 2013, when I managed to build a crew of the most fantastic people I've ever known and set out to finally make the production, no holds barred. It was a dream come true.
I sought to make this film in the footsteps of my most inspirational role model, Sergio Leone. Painstaking attention to detail was paid to ensure we were getting as close as we possibly could to the films of this director, but other, smaller details were dictated from elsewhere in movie history:

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) remains the primary influence for the End Is Near, but other inspirations include: Django (1966), Unforgiven (1992), The Hellbenders (1967), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1980), The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (1967), True Grit (2010), Face to Face (1967), The Aviator (2003), Duck, You Sucker! (1971), Tombstone (1993), The Big Gundown (1966) and Eagle's Wing (1979), among countless others.

Special thanks to my incredible crew and best friends, who helped me bring this project to reality. Your loyalty and faith in me can never be returned, I am forever in debt to you all and am honored to have your support. We made this film together and we will remember it forever.