Tippi Hedren: No longer a listed cast member

Hollywood actress Tippi Hedren is no longer listed as part of the cast of the proposed film, “House of Good and Evil,” a “psychological thriller” that was announced to begin filming in Floyd County in September.  Her name disappeared from the cast listing on the Internet Movie Database this week.

Her removal from the cast listing came shortly after we contacted her management company to confirm her involvement.  “House of Good and Evil” is also no longer listed on Miss Hedren’s IMDB page.

As we reported in June, actress Rachel Miner is also no longer involved and a replacement actress added to the Internet Movie Database cast listing film just last week is now not  listed either.  Miner’s agent says she never actually signed to do the film.

As of July 14, the remaining cast listed by the Internet Movie Database, is Christian Oliver, who appeared in Valkryie and The Three Musketeers, plus Christiansburg actor-drama coach Bo Keister and Floyd’s Rob Neukirch.

So what does this mean for screenwriter and producer Blu de Golyer, son-in-law of retired educator and former Floyd County Supervisor Bill Gardiner?

Good question.  Given the history of other projects announced for this area by de Goyler, it probably means trouble.

Last year, de Golyer and still photographer-turned-director Michel Givens tried to raise $40,000 through Kickstarter.Com to fund a documentary based on Franklin County author Charles Thompson’s “Spirits of Just Men,” a book about moonshine in Franklin and Floyd counties.

Kickstarter is a web site that lets independent filmmakers raise money for proposed projects.  “Spirits of Just Men” did not meet its fundraising goal of $40,000.  Only $660 was pledged from five contributors and the project was shelved.

“House of Good and Evil,” has floated around Hollywood for several years and has missed other announced dates for starting production.  Entertainment writer Dennis Willis wrote a year ago that Clint Howard, brother of Ron, would direct the film.  The latest director assigned to the project is David Mun, a cinematographer who worked with de Goyler on “The Road to Freedom,” a biopic about photojournalist Sean Flynn, who disappeared in Cambodia in the 1970s.

Few “announced” film projects actually make it to production and even fewer are ever released to theaters.

De Golyer pitched the film to overseas investors through the web site, Cinechance.Com.  Soliciting funds under the name, Blu Spain Films, de Goyler said:

New production company looking for 300k to produce horror/ thriller that deals with a woman’s fear of being alone in an isolated house. Both producers have success as writers and actors in the industry with connections in distribution. We have a compelling business plan and are looking for like minded and serious investors who wish to have a long term and successful relationship.

Blu Spain Films never got off the ground and is not listed now with any agency as a production company.

De Golyer told us last month that the production budget has been cut and and Mun are using their own money to finance the film. De Goyler now now also uses “Shooting Creek Films,” an LLC chartered last fall in South Carolina, as the production company of record for “House of Good and Evil.”  Shooting Creek Films was originally created as the production company for the now-shelved documentary project on moonshine.  The company does not have a listed phone number of web site.

The South Carolina Secretary of State’s office shows the registration for Shooting Creek Films was filed by Billy Joe Blu de Golyer on October 13, 2011 using the residence address of 1443 Allen Street in Mount Pleasant, SC.

According to the Internet Movie Database, Shooting Creek Films has one other project in development:  The Lycanthropist, with de Golyer listed as producer and scriptwriter.  The plot summary for that film says:

When a small Washington town falls victim to a series of gruesome murders, an FBI agent with a tattered past must work with the local Sheriff to solve the mystery and race to stop the monster before she too falls prey to The Lycanthropist.

No cast is announced yet and Shooting Creek is listed as the production company along with Horrorshow, Inc., a one-man shop owned by Mark Rickard of Santa Monica, California, who is also listed as a production company for “House of Good Evil.”

Another company listed in the production credits for “House of Good Evil” is Chabo Films.  That company’s address traces back to a mail box rental company at 8491 Sunset Blvd. in Los Angeles.

De Goyler himself has a biography that reads like a Hollywood screenplay.  His “official” bio in the Internet Movie Database, written by “Michael Philips,” says:

Blu de Golyer was born in Cody, Wyoming July 9th 1975. His father Steven, who was in the construction business moved the family every six months from state to state. Eventually the family settled down for a time in Baker Oregon, where Blu’s mother Cheryl took up the hobby of sled dog racing. Blu followed in his mother’s footsteps and at the age of 12 was ranked 110th in the world as a sled dog racer.

After high school Blu set out to see the world and crossed the Atlantic, landing in England. He spent nearly the next decade as a resident, working in the bar trade and eventually starting his own business.

The business went sour with a deal gone bad with the mob and he was back on a plane, landing in L.A. He took up writing quite by accident, seeing two men writing a screenplay at a cafe. The next day Blu went to a book store and found “The Deer Hunter” screenplay. This would be his bible and studied every word. A month later Blu wrote his first screenplay which landed on the lap of Michael Blodgett (Turner And Hooch). Blodgett loved Blu’s writing and hired him to polish a few projects. Word got out and Blu became in high demand. To date Blu has written 26 screenplays, half of which for name writers as a ghost writer.

De Goyler’s bio in Wikipedia is pretty much the same, without the reference to a mob deal gone sour and lists IMDB as its source.  Wikipedia adds two caveats:

This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it.

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification, as its only attribution is to IMDb. IMDb may not be a reliable source for biographical information.

Although de Goyler’s “biography” cites 26 screenplays (half ghost written), a search of various movie industry turns up just one past film where he is listed as a screenwriter:  “The House,” a five-minue short film shot in Cupertino, CA.  Two other screenwriting credits are for “House of Good and Evil” and “The Lycanthropist,” to films that are still in “pre-production.

He is listed at the “producer, writer and director” for a web-based TV series, “The 420360 Show,” listed as “past television” in 2011 by the Internet Movie Database but the show is not on the web. It’s web site url has a “pending reactivation” status, which means it expired and on one has paid for it renewal.

The Wikipedia bio also says: “Blu de Golyer is also a published author with his series of children’s books.”

Both Amazon and Barnes Noble list one book, “The Adventures of Captain Greenspud, a 28-page book self-published book issued through AuthorHouse.

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