"SAF3" (various directors, 2013-2014, TV series)

[Travis]

I guess they are going to start showing this in my country on an Asian cable channel called KIX.
They just showed a commercial of some Baywatch looking lifeguard girl.

[Jox]

http://travelza.wordpress.com/2013/11/2 ... cape-town/

[Jox]

DL stills

[TEMIRLAN]

Looks like Dolph is the nicest part of the series.

[Mosquito]

The first three stills look good. The last one has "greenscreen" written all over it.

[Jox]

It's just the use of a long lens, they don't even have time to mess around with green screen in post. Don't get fooled by the stills, they look a million light years better than the actual show.

[TEMIRLAN]

I think I know a guy sitting in front of Dolph in the third pic. Who is he? Kinda remember him in Death Race 2.

[Jox]

Patrick Lyster, he was in a lot of movies, Eastwood's INVICTUS recently. One of the only real actors in the series...

[Jox]

What a load of crap.

I think it's about the producers chiropractor friend who tried to raise money for the show and have one in the show.

[Travis]

Just saw a commercial for Saf3 on TV. It barely shows Dolph and doesn't show his name as the star. The commercial made it look like he is just a random actor on the show.

[Jox]

And that's a good thing.

They've been making the J.R. Martinez guy more of the lead (he's billed first on the new official site)
1/ since Dolph left to shoot EX3 4 episodes and also left the show before the end of the season (probably absent again for the last 3-4 episodes and again it's a very good thing)
2/ he kept fighting with the producers and certainly wouldn't promote it like Martinez did (and was willing to)
3/ maybe Dolph even managed to deal that they wouldn't make him the star as much as he was supposed to be. Notice how there are many more stills released of the other characters than him

The show is such an embarrassing travesty (I can now adore and be thankful for Dolph's worst movies which are 100 times better) it's a good thing that this goes under the radar... It's so sad this turned out even worse than what we dreadfully expected when it was first announced, a TV show from the responsible for BAYWATCH sounded silly and terrible already but THIS......

[Travis]

That's some interesting behind the scenes insight.

I was on imdb reading reviews. The first 4 reviews posted were 10 stars (one 9 star) and every review after those gave it 1 star. Pretty easy to spot the fake reviews. lol

[Jox]

Premiering December 17 in the Philippines
http://asia.widmi.com/index.php/philipp ... p-you-safe

[savagesketch]

Jox, do you think the lack of buzz for Dolph and his now second-billed status is a direct result of him failing to properly promote it, leaving mid-way through filming to work on another project, and just generally being unhappy with it? In other words, are the producers "punishing" Dolph in a sense?

[Jox]

How so, I don't get your reasoning? Why would he be upset about not getting "buzzed" for being in the worst show out there, and feel "punished" in that case? It's rather the opposite (and a good thing). They should blame themselves anyway for everything. I just still can't figure how they got money for an entire season of this beforehand when far better shows are cancelled after a few episodes. Unfortunately it's gonna run and re-run all year-long. There wasn't even any type of real promo when it premiered so who would have known about it?I'm actually afraid the U.S. and international medias might actually get caught about it and start the negative buzz. The production is wrapping this week by the way, while D is landing in Thailand...