Novice Canadian filmmakers showed their skilled when they pooled together more than 100 Craigslist volunteers to craft this clever faux trailer that sets the Riverdale gang into every conceivable teen movie trope; peer pressure, the love triangle, losin’ it, the secretly gay bff, drug abuse, violent loner, parent issues, peer pressure, pregnancy scare, and lesbian lip-lock!
Video tipped by Vulture.
From Point Blank Creative’s Youtube post:
Riverdale is a fan-trailer responding to the common trend of ‘gritty’ remakes of popular franchises. An article about the production of Riverdale will be available on fanfilmsblog.com shortly. If there are still any doubts as to the legitimacy of this trailer, be assured that this is a not-for-profit project produced purely for fun.
Riverdale was produced with the help of almost 100 Craigslist volunteers from the Vancouver film industry. We produced this and the 10 other comedic videos on a budget of $3, 500 over a weekend. The Craigslist and random nature of this production brought the director and his girlfriend together. It also united the executive producer’s wife with her long lost friend/boyfriend when she recognized him playing the character of Moose.
Awe!
Is it wrong that I want this to be a real movie by yesterday?
What do you think of this ambitious fan vid?