Principal Cullen encourages Roofus to stand up to the school bully and to follow his dreams. Sid started to beat up Roofus, and was taken to Principal Cullen (Basco). Now Basco and his team are hoping to expand the story into a full-length feature.Roofus and his friend, Julani and Ella were playing pirates, while the school bully, Sid, was watching. "Beats anything I might have come up with." "Child protective services, being taken from your mother to be put in a foster home - these are powerful forces in a young person's life, (yet) the young Rufio refuses to defeat his imagination and his belief that there is a better place for him, which is Neverland," says Hart. The film is littered with "Hook" references, including a dinner scene where the kids say grace by shouting "Grace!" "Rufio is more street punk, 'Lord of the Flies,' a gang leader."įor "Bangarang," Feingold and his co-screenwriter Jeremy Dylan reverse-engineered the story from "Hook," starting with the line Rufio says as he lies dying in Peter's arms: "I wish I had a dad like you." In their story, a Filipino-American 13-year-old named Roofus (played by Sheadon Gabriel) is fighting with the school bully while his mother, an undocumented immigrant, is being deported to the Philippines. "I wanted the (new) leader to break the traditional Lost Boy mold," says Hart. But Spielberg cast Basco, who's Filipino - because, as the director told him, he was the only kid they auditioned that scared him. Spielberg added "bangarang," the Jamaican word for "chaos" that becomes the Lost Boys' rallying cry. The original script described Rufio as having "wild dark braids" and "flashing dark eyes." Basco remembers thinking the character was Jamaican. Jake Hart, now a filmmaker himself, was the one who came up with the idea for "Hook" when he was 10 years old - and he also played a Lost Boy in the movie. Hart, one of the writers on "Hook," and his son Jake, became part of the producing team. "So that's always been my mentality: We're going to go out there and make it, whether the filmmaking powers that be come with us or not." "I've made a lot of things with not a lot of money and typically not a lot of permission," says Feingold, who got his start making videos at BuzzFeed. They attribute the success not only to those who watched "Hook" over and over as kids, but to '90s nostalgia generally, including reboots of "Full House," "The X-Files" and "Twin Peaks."įeingold has an image showing an article about their Rufio prequel trending on Twitter alongside news stories about Trump and North Korea. They raised their goal of $30,000 in less than three days, before eventually earning $68,790. In February, just three weeks after they met, Basco and Feingold launched the film's Kickstarter campaign. ![]() Even though Basco has been approached numerous times over the years by with scripts and pitches for a Rufio project, nothing had ever materialized. ![]() After Basco read the script, he agreed, and soon after, Feingold suggested that it'd be fun to produce a film about Rufio together. Feingold is developing a romantic comedy about a modern-day Wendy and her life after Peter Pan (with Brittany Snow attached to star), and asked Basco if he'd consider a cameo role. As Feingold saw Basco walking by, he pulled out his phone to show him that he had the "Hook" poster as his background image. He met Basco serendipitously at a West Hollywood bar early this year. "As a kid, you're watching it from the perspective of the Lost Boys," says Feingold, "so when I first saw Rufio, I just felt very safe."
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