DesireGenie Releases September 8th!

By the Melcre Pictures Team

After more than one year, several delays, and multiple cuts being thrown around, Melcre Pictures and Alexandre Aguilar returns to release DesireGenie. DesireGenie, originally slated to have a July 14 release date, was plagued by delays due to technical issues in the music sector, as film composer Davet Cabrera was victim to scheduling delays, leading to scoring to be almost impossible from time to time. As if that wasn't enough, the film itself spawned multiple versions with alternate scenes, including a alternate scene (spoilers?) for one of the characters as Aguilar and the team were stumped on which version was fit.

British vs. Patriot Cuts

The release version of DesireGenie is not the original version completed back in late-June with the original script. The original cut, nicknamed the British Cut by Aguilar, differs in that a scene where Jenny had a phone call with Kenny, and Kenny shared a final scene with Henry. These scenes place of Kenny gets a gift and his ultimate reveal, respectively. The nickname, rather strange, originates with the Jenny phone call to Kenny, where she uses a (poorly made) British accent to talk to Kenny, which received poor reception from test audiences. The only Jenny scene that did remain, where Kenny walks down the stairs with a girlfriend (from questionable methods), she does not posses that British accent.

Aguilar expressed discontent towards the British Cut immensely, even threatening to delete the film in it's entirety. While discussing cuts with Ethics Supervisor Liam Ashworth, Aguilar viewed several memes of the "Grimace Shake" trend, and scrapped the call scene to replace it with Kenny drinking a unknown substance. The change contradicted Kenny's later scene with Henry, and to replace that was a continuation of the scene of Kenny's drink. On a late evening on July 4th, the first rough cut of this new version was completed, thus gaining the Patriot Cut nickname. 

Melcre can't release two versions of the same film however, (or at least we didn't want to) so a test audience of five was specially selected to vote on which version they preferred. After a period of three days to let the selected group to have enough time to view both cuts, a majority of four returned the verdict for the Patriot Cut to be the final cut (and no, we just gave them cut A and cut B, we didn't name them British or Patriot to the test audience.) As for the British Cut, it currently resides in a abandoned server out in the wild, and maybe on a team member's computer.

Music Perils

Davet Cabrera entered the scene immediately after the Patriot Cut was determined to be the final cut, however it was not a smooth ride as everyone anticipated. Cabrera was working in a internship around the same time as the film's post-production phase, and many scheduling conflicts ensued. Many team members, Aguilar included, began to worry that the soundtrack would not be released on time on July 14th, which led to the first delay to a new July 28 release date, just adding two work weeks. The pace remained slow, leading Aguilar to reluctantly extend release dates further, first August 11, then August 18, then September 1st. Team members voiced outrage towards the film's multiple delays and blamed Aguilar for being too lenient. Cabrera sent in the last track exactly one hour before the set release (while Aguilar was recording some ambient audio for some scenes), and the film released at midnight.

It's finally released!

DesireGenie is available to watch for free on the Melcre Pictures YouTube channel or you can watch it here on the website!