Late Bloomer was inspired by ” The Secret World Of OG.” What? Ok, hear me out! When I was a kid I read this book and fell it love with it. Fast forward to present day and I’m burning with desire to make a comedy film.
It was important to me that this film be based on a universal human desire – “a longing to fit it.” I know a lot of films are reversed – the need to be an individual, and not fit in. But with my film I wanted my main characters to be so out of place in any environment, that they longed for the day they could fit in with the crowd and go unnoticed.
We take for granted our ability to wander through life unnoticed.
The connection. I first started thinking what if a troll like creature, like in ” The Secret World Of OG” came up from down below and started wandering around in public. How people would point and stare, and scream and chase the troll like creature with pitch forks. But then a kind hearted women took the troll in and fell in love with the troll. And the troll fell in love with her, because he didn’t recognize the women to be the hideously ugly ( societies words not mine ) women that she was. And they could go out into the world together, and not be put off by the name calling and being run out of town with pitch forks – because they had each other.
But then I thought I don’t have a huge budget for a film like that, so I made Late Bloomer. Hope you Enjoy! Scott