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POW POW AND HENDRIX
PRODUCTION SUSPENDED

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David Garrison Productions' "Pow Pow and Hendrix" has suspended production indefinitely due to extreme heat conditions.

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As PPH is an urban comedy, virtually all scenes take place on city streets, and all that concrete and asphalt intensify the already excessive heat from 2024's summer sun. We had several issues of heat heat exhaustion on set despite all precautions.

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The heat also negatively affected our equipment. Three cameras overheated and shut down as well as our Atomos Ninja V recorder. Even our C stand clamps expanded to the point where they could not be adjusted.

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Safety is always our first priority. The injuries we sustained due to the weather lead to the decision to shut down. Unfortunately, since our stars (Ean Evans and Ezra Battiste) return to school in mid August, we are unable to complete filming before they hit the books.

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Much thanks to our dedicated cast and crew for their tireless pursuit of the craft. 

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Casting Beowulf as a Black man was not done as any attempt to stir up controversy. Rather, establishing the prince's origin as from a culture that didn't encourage violence (the only way to get to Valhalla was to die with a weapon in your hand), was a way to answer logic gaps in the original poem. For instance, as king, Beowulf rules in peace for 50 years, thus denying his nation's warriors from reaching heaven. Being from a peaceful African tribe fixes that dichotomy without requiring any change to the original story.

Hollywood actor and bodybuilder Christian Boeving ( https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0091443/ )

came to Cincinnati to play Beowulf's famous nemesis Grendel. 

   His look was based on the premise that Grendel was actually one of the last Neanderthal, and the basis of the real life troll legends that permeate the Nordic regions. Theories abound of an actual race war between Homo sapiens and Neadrathals that lead to these legends.

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