Setbacks

Things were looking grim in 2005. We still hadn't secured a director. No director, no funding. Our NZ and UK producers had a meeting in Cannes to discuss the situation. The UK boys were contemplating turning the entire production over to Tim Sanders, to run as a NZ project rather than a UK/NZ copro.

Tim was getting involved in a number of other films which were taking up increasing amounts of his time. As a producer, he likes to have only a limited number of live projects on the go at a time. So it was, to the surprise and dismay of one and all, he announced that he was stepping back from Moon.

It left us all floundering. This was a NZ film and we needed a NZ producer. Enter the Bradley brothers, Grant and Dale. They took up the NZ end and did what they could to advance the project. But it's always difficult to pick up something when you haven't been involved from the beginning.

Things seemed to be on a downward spiral...