Behind the Scenes of 'Bad Senator': An Exclusive Chat with Filmmaker Chad Richardson

This episode is available as a youtube video: https://youtu.be/y1OzMEu3OJU

In this episode of the Open Forum in The Villages, Florida podcast, host Mike Roth talks with Chad Richardson, the filmmaker behind 'Bad Senator.' The podcast delves into the inspiration and making of the movie, detailing Richardson's transition from a police officer to a screenwriter and director. The discussion covers the unique challenges of indie film making, including budget constraints, the importance of community support in The Villages, Florida, and the impact of personal stories on the creative process. The episode also touches on the theme of connecting with loved ones and the potential for a sequel to 'Bad Senator.' Additionally, the podcast features a segment with Dr. Craig Curtis offering tips on brain health and Alzheimer's prevention.

00:00 Welcome to Open Forum in The Villages, Florida
01:00 Supporting the Podcast: How You Can Help
02:07 Introducing Chad Richardson and 'Bad Senator'
03:05 Behind the Scenes of 'Bad Senator': Cast and Production Insights
05:11 Choosing The Villages as a Filming Location
08:25 The Journey of Screenwriting and Film making
10:17 Navigating Hollywood: Challenges and Triumphs
16:53 Alzheimer's Health Tip with Dr. Craig Curtis
18:19 The Production Journey of 'Bad Senator'
25:18 Future Projects and Final Thoughts
28:19 Closing Remarks and Acknowledgments

Transcript

Chad Richardson - Bad Senator

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This is Mike Roth on Open Forum in The Villages. Today I'm here with Chad Richardson.

Say hi, Chad.

[00:02:10] Chad Richardson: Hi, Mike and

[00:02:11] Mike Roth: today, we're going to be talking about Chad's new movie, Bad Senator. Chad, that's an interesting title for a movie in an election season. How did you come up with the title?

[00:02:22] Chad Richardson: Yeah. It is an interesting title and what's more interesting is it has nothing to do with politics is what's ironic about the movie but it is a story about a retired narcissist senator who is trying to, he realizes that for all his awards and popularity and. And meeting the president, everything else that he's near in the end of his life.

And he realized he has nothing. He's lost the love of his life. He's lost respect to his only child. And he has one friend by default, a disgruntled Marine neighbor that he hangs out with because nobody will be around him. We came out with bad center just because, you say it and people don't forget it.

It just sticks.

[00:03:03] Mike Roth: It's got a high stickiness. No, I I really love that Marine character. He has a face, great actor.

[00:03:10] Chad Richardson: He's an amazing individual, and I'll tell more about Rob more, but as we tell the story, but the amount of commitment that these actors. It was just incredible how much they got into the role. So it was heartwarming.

[00:03:24] Mike Roth: Did they both do their own stunts?

[00:03:26] Chad Richardson: There is a stunt in the movie. And what's interesting is Vanessa Knopf who played Iris, we had a stunt in the movie and she was all in, she's I'll do it. I'm in. And we're like can't do that stunt. Unfortunately we can't lose you. During her filming, but I mean they were game for anything.

So it was wonderful.

[00:03:43] Mike Roth: I thought the some of the stunts in the golf cart

[00:03:46] Chad Richardson: Yeah, you know what I'm talking about don't want to spoil it for any people haven't seen it yet. But yeah, she wanted to do that stunt she was all in and She's just incredible. Yeah.

[00:03:56] Mike Roth: Yeah. You had a cast of very interesting characters and it was very believable.

[00:04:01] Chad Richardson: I'll say this about Rob since we're talking about it the original script had the character of Jocko Stone is a disgruntled Marine who lost his leg in combat, which we've seen over and over again with our young soldiers and terrible things that have happened to them. And he was very disgruntled with how he was treated after post being in service.

And when we picked Rob for the role, it turns out that Rob had a, has a very serious injury. And in the spirit of committing to this movie, he said, I'm open to revealing my wound and part of my personal story as part of this journey. And, it meant the world to us. It was unbelievable that he was allowed us to do this.

And it was a very tough thing to film. When we film that, when you see those emotions

When we do the reveal in the movie, those aren't fake. We're. We had a skeleton crew that were getting emotional in the other room watching it, it was a tough scene for Rob to do. But that's a level of commitment that, that these actors brought to the table and it just was incredible.

[00:05:06] Mike Roth: . You had a good cast , of actors and the surroundings were really good. Why don't you tell our listeners why you decided to shoot the film where you did?

[00:05:17] Chad Richardson: Yeah, that's a good question. My parents, my dad has passed away, but my parents have lived. Near The Villages at the Del Webb retirement community for over 20 years. And we've been going to The Villages for 25 years and our personal experiences. We absolutely love it. We love everything about The Villages.

We love what it represents. And over the years, I've watched these amazing moments with senior citizens, these moments of tenderness, these moments of togetherness. Like in one of the groups in our movies called the widow group and the widow group gets together, has a few beers maybe a few too many.

And and they console each other and they, they welcome new members on a regular basis. That's a real group. That's not you. What you saw in the movie was the actual widow group that does that. And 

[00:06:08] Mike Roth: you 

[00:06:08] Chad Richardson: want to beautiful 10 moments, then join that group and see, it's a, we address this in a movie and we're all going to see the end of our life one day and see the end of our loved ones if we're alive.

And there's no win. There's no win on this because if You're with a loved one and you lose them. It's horrible it's very tragic and you know You're talking about a lifetime with somebody and then the other flip of the coin if you're alone How horrible is that to live and die alone?

So there's no easy answer and what we tried to address is death with grace with beauty with Celebrating a life well lived and that's what we tried to focus on and we tried to express that in the movie

[00:06:49] Mike Roth: I was surprised when one of your key characters died in the movie.

[00:06:53] Chad Richardson: Yeah, and what I wanted that character to live. The first three years of the screenplay that character lived But one of the magical things that happens to a writer is when you get in the zone, when you get in the moment, the characters start writing their own story, and then you're just writing as fast as you can to keep up with what the characters are telling you.

So that character just kept pushing towards that end. And I hope we did a good job with it. I know the actors gave it their all, obviously you saw it. 

[00:07:21] Mike Roth: And it was interesting the way you brought that character into the movie.

yeah,

It reminded me of another movie Grumpy Grumpy 

Old Man.

[00:07:29] Chad Richardson: That's a great movie. Yeah, good comp. I enjoyed that movie.

[00:07:33] Mike Roth: Yeah, there was just a a stage play of the Grumpy Old Man musical

[00:07:39] Chad Richardson: Right. Yeah.

[00:07:40] Mike Roth: United States. And was quite good. 

[00:07:43] Chad Richardson: I always go back to Walter Matthau and Jack Lemon were one of my favorites growing up and that's, I'm 58 and they're a little older than I am, but that's the classics that we tried to that energy, that spirit, that, that camaraderie, we really, I really enjoyed that.

So

[00:07:59] Mike Roth: You wrote the whole movie yourself?

[00:08:01] Chad Richardson: Yes.

[00:08:02] Mike Roth: How, it took you three years to write the movie?

[00:08:04] Chad Richardson: What happened, and I didn't even realize this until I, I had a one of the screenings, we had a Q and A after one of the screenings at the Orange Blossom Opry. Was I actually started writing it when my father died and I didn't even know. He passed away six years ago and I didn't even realize it. I guess I buried it and didn't want to face it.

And but yeah, it was six years in the making, it turns out. 

[00:08:25] Mike Roth: Why don't you share with our audience a little bit of your background in filmmaking?

[00:08:31] Chad Richardson: I grew up loving writing. Absolutely loved it. I wrote in high school. I wrote in college. However, I grew up in a public service generational family. My father was a police officer. We're all police, fire, military. My brother snatched up firefighter before I could. And so he never worked for a living, be honest with you.

So he did 25 years of nothing, but that left me to be the police officer, follow the line. So I was, did 25 years as a Metro Detroit police officer. And and all of me, all that, we have six kids. So writing during my career and raising six children, I don't have that right. I really don't.

We're too busy. With doing what we're supposed to do as parents. And when I retired in 2013, the moment I retired, I started writing. And and I wrote three novels. I start off with three novel. I wrote four, but I'm not going to share the first one cause it's so bad. But I worked hard and I wrote, it's called Jolly Jane.

She's a, it's a police thriller. And that was followed with the Greeley Chronicles, which is the second in the police thriller which I got great reviews. And then I wrote a family drama called Iris Valley, and that got great reviews. The problem with being a novelist is Amazon has about 15 million books and they're stable at any given moment.

And you have to market yourself. have to market your name. Not the books at the market, your name, your personality, who you are. And I'm really a behind the scenes guy. I don't want to be in front unless I have to, I want to be behind the camera. So I moved away from that and I quickly fell in love with screenwriting and I've been screenwriting for about nine years now.

[00:10:13] Mike Roth: Have any of your other writing efforts resulted in screen 

time?

[00:10:17] Chad Richardson: That's a great question. What you'll find out in Hollywood is it's one in a million. And so I've been to Hollywood. I pitched in Hollywood. I had a Hollywood agent. I've almost closed on several deals and then something always stops it. 

[00:10:31] Mike Roth: It's 

[00:10:32] Chad Richardson: any number of things, but at the end of the day, You just get no after no, and and I hate to say this, but I think it, it came to a halting crash for me.

And I think you have to understand where I come from. I came from a long line of proud police officers. We took great pride in serving the public. We weren't abusive. We were the officers that you want to come to your house. Because we solve problems, we help people, we took pride in that.

And that's what we do. And I had a a really great script that was in the final stages of sale. And my agent at the time asked me to take my name off the script. And I said, yeah, I can't do that. Because that's my parent's name. That's my grandfather's name. And her quote was that. That unfortunately, nobody in Hollywood is going to buy a script from a white cop from Detroit. And she said, I'm sorry, but everybody hates the police. And

[00:11:31] Mike Roth: I'm laughing so hard because I had a business in Los Angeles for 15 years.

Yeah,

While I was there, I had such trouble with the few clients that we had in the Hollywood area and community that I totally redlined them. And I said to my staff, we're no longer going to service Hollywood.

There was too much craziness. 

[00:11:49] Chad Richardson: Think the blatant statements like that, there's the reverse discrimination, it's unfortunate, but on a positive note, that's when I sat down with my wife and I said, why don't we. I'm ready. I have scripts that are, can be produced. I believe in them. And my favorite script is Bad Senator.

And why don't we look for investors on our own and let's just make this.

And during the last 10 years, not only did I write, but, and I failed to mention this, is that I've been working in the movie industry in any capacity, whether it's a background actor, a grip, an intern. Anything I can get a job in the industry and so I've been on many multiple, television and movie sets and just learning the craft and I'm not afraid to talk to anybody.

I'll be sitting with Kiefer Sutherland doing a scene and during in between takes, I'll start picking his brain because I want to know, And after 10 years of doing that and I'm a researcher by nature, we're, we felt we were ready and we built a beautiful, competent production team.

We, we were able to secure funding for the movie. And and one of the caveats that I had, which did cost us quite a bit of money was I wanted to film down at The Villages it's a lot cheaper. I'm in Atlanta. It's a lot cheaper to film here. We wanted. To film there. So that's where the story originated.

Just love the area and we didn't get the film 

[00:13:14] Mike Roth: deep 

[00:13:14] Chad Richardson: inside The Villages and our understanding from The Villages of staff was , they had a filmmaker come in that, really did a poor job of representing their community, and we tried to explain that we're not those people.

We will never be those people. We're completely transparent. We offered to have them okay, our script and we just couldn't get in the front door. So we filmed around The Villages. We had was amazing thing is word spread about our story. I actually posted the screenplay. And social circles down there.

And we ended up having over 200 senior citizens. Contact us, said, we love the story. We want to be part of this any way we can. So we had some great people from The Villages that stepped up and offered their homes. Food. We're fed. Amazing. We had. I just some amazing meals. We had Karen was one of our retiree chefs that, Oh my gosh, she was incredible.

But so we had this amazing support. People were out in droves every single day and it makes the movie look much bigger. It makes our movie look like a. A multimillion dollar movie instead of the budget we had. So we can't, we can never thank the people down there enough for us gambling and coming down there and them saying, okay, we're going to help you out.

We're going to help you make this movie that, that tells such a beautiful story about this troubled family.

[00:14:38] Mike Roth: In round numbers, what did it, what was the production cost to get the the movie from

Around 

[00:14:43] Chad Richardson: $200,000 I don't really want to add up the total yet.

[00:14:49] Mike Roth: Okay. That's, 

[00:14:50] Chad Richardson: I'm still dealing with

[00:14:50] Mike Roth: Hollywood level movie, okay, two hours and 16 odd minutes that's a very low budget.

[00:14:57] Chad Richardson: We had one of the people I intern with was New Zealand Sun Productions and that's a family team that I heard about and they, Sean the dad has been in the business for over 30 years. He's actually Mel Brooks assistant back in the day. And I went on in turn with them and he said, come on out I'm going to teach you everything there is.

I know about filmmaking and you can ask me any question as long as we're not action. I'm going to help you out. He goes but I want to make this clear. I don't want to know anything about your movie. I'm not interested in your movie. I don't want to be part of your movie. I want to know nothing. And I said, I love that up front.

That's great. So I work with them. And then after the shoot, I started, he said, you can call me with any questions. Of course, like I said, I'll call anybody. So I started calling him and I drop hints about my story to him. And then 1 day said, what, send me your script. And I'm going to help you to make it more budget friendly.

So that's all I'm going to do is I'm going to drop maybe 50 grand from your budget and help you out with that. I said, that's awesome. So I sent him the script, not four hours later, he calls me and he said, okay, first I have to apologize. I really didn't think. That you had a good script. I didn't think I'm just in shock. Please don't take offense, but it's just, it's an amazing screenplay and it's such a great screenplay that we're willing to stop production of our pending movie and we're, we would like to join your team. And I'm like, You gotta be kidding me. Unbelievable. And he said, just give us the bottom of quote you had from, parts of your production team.

We'll take the lowest quote and we want to make you successful. We want to tell stories like this also. And so I'm like thank you. And you're on the team without question. 

[00:16:52] Mike Roth: That's fantastic. need to take a short break here to to an Alzheimer's tip from Dr. Craig Curtis. 

Should people who want to reduce their risk of Alzheimer's and improve their brain health take something like Centrum Silver, which is advertised as a brain supplement?

[00:17:10] Dr. Craig Curtis: Well, another great question, Mike. So, in a study published last year, they actually showed that people that took a multivitamin, such as Centrum Silver, Centrum silver actually did slightly better on memory tests and this was a double blind placebo controlled study Sponsored by the Alzheimer's Association.

However, the Alzheimer's Association has come out and said we still don't have enough information to recommend a daily multivitamin. There was a study that showed no effect of a daily multivitamin a few years back that was also a double blind placebo controlled study. So we do have conflicting evidence on whether or not you should take a daily multivitamin.

[00:17:52] Mike Roth: The question is. Take a multivitamin if you have an unhealthy diet. If you have a healthy diet, get your vitamins from natural foods. Couldn't have said it better myself. Thanks very much, Dr. Curtis. Thank you for having me, Mike. Good. 

[00:18:03] Warren: With over 20 years of experience studying brain health, Dr. Curtis's goal is to educate the Village's community on how to live a longer, healthier life.

To learn more, visit his website, CraigCurtisMD. com or call 352 500 5252 to attend a free seminar.

[00:18:19] Mike Roth: Okay, so we're back with Chad Richardson. We were talking about getting his movie produced. So you found the Hollywood Production Company that decided they wanted to partner with you after they the script.

[00:18:31] Chad Richardson: Yeah,

[00:18:32] Mike Roth: which is a really big accomplishment.

yeah, it was.

How did they help you?

[00:18:37] Chad Richardson: Oh, I just, how didn't they help me? For one I directed the movie and I'd never directed before. And to say I directed, very, the first week Sean he did the schedule. And so what he did is he did small scenes for the first couple of weeks. And then simply said, what I'm going to do is I'm going to make you look like a great director.

Just, follow my lead yet. You're not following my lead. And, I had a very strong vision of what I wanted to create. And then we would go into the shoots. We'd rehearse and we look at it. And then he always made me look like I was the man in charge. But really, he was just as fundamental and direct in this movie as anybody else.

But as Sean is a very humble man, and he'll be very quiet about his input. But Sean, his son Taylor, Danny Schaefer, their side of the production team. They were incredible. And then when I finished the movie. I had done editing, I edited shorts and, I edited this movie also, and that was in collaboration with Sean also, and and then I had another, I have a professional editor that edits, like Spider Man movies.

He's a real big Hollywood editor. So he collaborated with me. I had some amazing help and that really came from saying, Hey, I need help. I want to make this, I have this vision. I have a wonderful story. I want to tell, I want to help people deal with life and death. And and tell this family story and it really just resonated and people just 

volunteered and said, I'll help you.

We, I want to see this story.

We have high hopes that people will watch this movie. , I, the big meeting had the 1st day where he had the whole cast and crew. I gave a big speech and I said, it sounds pompous. It sounds grand, but I would love for people to leave this movie theater and call a loved one.

They haven't talked to in 20 years and say, hey, I miss you. Can we talk? Life's too short. Can we talk and get

[00:20:33] Mike Roth: The 

movie has a great ending. I'm not going to reveal it.

Yeah, thank you. It's a grand thing. We're hoping for, but we, if we can get people to connect, then we did our job. 

Are you planning on taking the film to any of the film festivals?

Is 

[00:20:46] Chad Richardson: no, the problem with film festivals is the obviously 1 is getting in, which I think we'd get in a few. Is the cost, is the lack of guarantees now for indie films to, to attract a distributor. So we, we've already signed with a distributor. We're expecting worldwide distribution with at least five different streamers in the next couple of months.

So we're off and running but we're not shown anywhere yet or it should be coming up pretty soon though.

[00:21:13] Mike Roth: it a pay per view movie?

[00:21:15] Chad Richardson: We have Amazon has signed up so far, licensed us, Roku OTT, which is, they're in itself a aggregate distributor. So they take the movie and they license it across their platforms.

And I don't even know all the ones they do. They do. But right now it's the impatient game. We' ve been waiting over four months now for the movie to come out and we have no control over that. A fear we have is it won't come out till election season.

So when it's not a political movie.

[00:21:43] Mike Roth: You never know in this kind of an election cycle. Are there going to be any opportunities for folks here in The Villages to see the movie before it has its public release?

[00:21:53] Chad Richardson: Yeah. We hope to partner with as you were talking with a friend of yours and possibly show it down at The Villages. We love to show it The Villages.

[00:22:01] Mike Roth: So you Villages to do that yourself.

[00:22:03] Chad Richardson: Absolutely. So we. It was a dream come true for me. So we filmed at the Orange Blossom Opry. I highly recommend that to everybody down there. It's an, it's, we've been going to the Orange Blossom Opry over 20 years.

And another great story is I had to shoot there. I had to shoot there. Father is a very strict very strict man and didn't really show much emotion. And my dad actually danced at the Orange Blossom Opry more than once. Which was, which is quite an adventure in itself. We have, Yeah, we have some amazing memories and I went to Roger and Heather Byers at the Opry and I tried to have a meeting with them for months.

I went there in person several times. I called, I emailed and finally, Roger calls me and he says, Hey, are you Chad Richardson? Yes. He goes, can you please stop calling me? And I said, no, I can't. I can't. I go, listen, if you give me 5 minutes to tell you this story, And you say, no, then I'll stop, but I really want to film at your theater.

And so that, and that led to a meeting in person, another meeting, and they fell in love with it. They fell in love with the story and they opened their arms to us. Bobby Randall is incredible. For those of Bobby Randall, he actually. sat down with one of our professional singers and wrote a song for this movie.

This is the big song in that movie Bobby Randall and Carly Naff wrote. And it's just such a beautiful song. 

[00:23:29] Mike Roth: And 

[00:23:29] Chad Richardson: it still brings tears to my eyes that they, that this happened. I'm listening to Bobby Randall and them create this song. In a recording studio, and I just couldn't believe that this is happening.

And and so we are allowed in the theater. We filmed, obviously, we filmed at the Orange Blossom Opry, an amazing, some scenes there. And and I'll treasure those memories. And then Roger and Heather invited us back to do a screening there. So we did a screening with a Q& A with me and Bob Gallagher, who is Senator Richard Van Sutton.

And And that was that was,

[00:24:01] Mike Roth: Did they have a big screen in that place? I don't

[00:24:04] Chad Richardson: yeah, he actually bought a screen system for the movie. They really love the movie so much. They said it's the first time they've shown a movie at the Opry. And so we are so honored and

One of my fondest memories. I will treasure forever is that I sat at the, on the side of the stage and I watched the audience the entire movie and to see people laughing, to see grown men crying and people holding each other it was just incredible. And after the show, we did the Q and a, and when that was done, I had about probably an 85 year old gentleman walk up to me and he goes, I got a problem with you. Yeah. Okay, sir. You didn't like the movie. He goes. No, you made me cry. I don't cry. And I thought that was just, it was just such a great moment, so that's what we're shooting

[00:24:58] Mike Roth: You did your job as a movie maker. You took on the plane.

[00:25:02] Chad Richardson: That's, we're trying to, that's a greatest compliment to a filmmaker that I was able to make you feel and that you felt motion that, that made you feel good too.

That made you feel good. So yeah, for that gentleman, our mission was accomplished and I hope for a lot of other people too. So

[00:25:18] Mike Roth: Now do you have a, another project that you're working on after the bad senator?

[00:25:24] Chad Richardson: I'm working on a, and I just love this story so much, a faith based movie about a priest, a cop and a soldier. And how these three tormented souls come together and basically save each other through God's word. So it's a very faith based one. We're trying, we're looking, trying to track funding right now for it.

I would love to do the movie. It's another one that. If you don't cry, be shocked.

Just, it's a, it's another movie that we, and again, no disrespect to any filmmaker, but we're right now, we're trying to focus on movies that don't have violence or try to shy away from violence unless it's a necessary moment.

But, cause it is an ugly world, but we're just trying to, we're trying to, Do movies with a message that will bring people together. And I'm talking about people from all walks of life. I was raised, you treat people the way you'd like to be treated. There was no racism or discrimination. There was none of that growing up.

We didn't, we grew up in Detroit and you'd be surprised. There was nothing on the radar. My parents didn't raise us that way. And we try to raise our children that way. And I think there needs to be more of that, less hate. More acceptance. So

[00:26:34] Mike Roth: good. And if someone wants to get a hold of you is there an email address that they can use to

[00:26:41] Chad Richardson: yeah, absolutely. Directly to me is Chad W. Richardson at yahoo. com. And you can always check out our website, which is shadow dreamworks, LLC. com. And that'll tell you what we're working on right now and give you a, you can get the movie trailer for Bad Senators on there and other information too.

[00:26:59] Mike Roth: That trailer is phenomenal, just

[00:27:01] Chad Richardson: Oh, thank you.

That, I had to work with another editor on that and that's the worst thing I've ever experienced in my life. I don't ever want to do a trailer again. It's hard. It's hard to encapsulate a movie into two minutes.

[00:27:13] Mike Roth: Yeah. But it came out phenomenal. 

[00:27:16] Chad Richardson: Thank you very

[00:27:16] Mike Roth: I had seen the the preview up at the Spruce Creek and I wasn't expecting anything phenomenal out of the trailer, but I was surprised and pleased by the trailer. And then when I saw the finished product, the two hour movie, I said, wow that's pretty good.

[00:27:32] Chad Richardson: yeah, thank you very much. Thank you. 

[00:27:34] Mike Roth: Mike.

Really liked that. Yeah. Any other final words for our listeners Chad?

[00:27:39] Chad Richardson: I hope they go see it. I hope they push to get the movie in The Villages and and we'd love to shoot there again. And we love to shoot at The Villages. I do have an outline. I am working on Bad Senator Two. I have the story. I would love to come down there, 

[00:27:53] Mike Roth: to

[00:27:53] Chad Richardson: Yeah, and ask, at the end of the day, we have to make money.

This is at the end of the day, no matter what we do, we still have to make money. So if we can make enough money. It would justify coming back down there and we would love to film there. I'm ready to go. ready to go right now. So

[00:28:07] Mike Roth: Let's hope that Mr. Morse listens to this podcast.

[00:28:11] Chad Richardson: I hope so. I'll meet him anytime any name it. I'll be down there.

[00:28:15] Mike Roth: Great. Thanks a lot, Chad. 

[00:28:17] Chad Richardson: All right, great. Thank you so much, Mike.

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