Following the premiere of Gouge Away at the GenreBlast Film Festival, Frumess began work on My Shadow, a new screenplay for an old idea called Dead Dog Robert. It is envisioned as Frankenstein by way of Pet Semetary via Little Shop of Horrors.
The synopsis follows Robert, a painter, who struggles with the sudden demise and grisly resurrection of his best friend — a Rabbit named Shadow. Now, all Robert wants to do is take the girl-next-door Sydney to the Jovial Halloween Ball and have a good time. But it's hard to have fun when your best friend aspires to be a rock n roll singer and won't stop eating the people you know.
The story is named after the song "My Shadow" by Jay Reatard. An audio play based on the second draft of the screenplay was live-streamed on YouTube on May 13th, 2023. Pre-production is set to begin in 2024.
From Stardust to Stardust - Rabbit
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She has been in the womb for eight months. But her journey began long, long ago.
The elements that made her came from dying stars.
The water that flows through her body came from distant worlds.
The energy that powers her muscles came from the heart of our sun.
But it that most mysterious ingredient, the one that started ticking 13.8 billion years ago…that had led all other ingredients to this moment.
In this place. On this planet.
We are living in the age of starlight. A moment when time’s arrow has filled the universe with beauty and wonder.
But it’s a brief window of time that will never be repeated in the history of our universe.
No one can slow the passage of time, nor should we try.
Because without time,
There would be no now.
No moment in the sun.
No moments, period.
Without time,
There would be no life.
- Morgan Freeman quote from ‘Our Universe’