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'Bannen Way' creator Mark Gantt talks about Sony's involvement with Web Series
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If you are looking for the wave of the future you should look no further than your computer screen. Web series have become the new medium for great storytelling with many notable actors involved. It is being compared to the transition between radio to television, and many studios are taking note: this is not your cat on YouTube anymore.
Mark Gantt and Jesse Warren co-created and co-wrote The Bannen Way. Bannen is a web series that has been sold to Sony and secured some notable actors through the studio. The story is that of a thief who wants to change his lifestyle but faces inner turmoil on his journey.
Legendary actor Robert Forster of new found Heroes fame stars alongside Michael Ironside from V, who has served as the voice over of comic book legends and Splinter Cell. Vanessa Marcil, who is best known for her roles in The Rock, General Hospital, Las Vegas and Lipstick Jungle as well as Hallmark movies stars alongside Gantt as well.
Gantt says the series took seven months to write and is currently being shot in Los Angeles. The series information can be found on their Facebook page.
We came up with a concept and it took us like seven months to write it and then we wrote the first six episodes. We started shopping it around and we met with Jesse (Jesse Albert, friend and Agent) back in November of 2007 and he said, “It’s too expensive, nobody’s going to buy it. It’s a great idea but nobody will do it”. And I said I feel like there is a need for that kind of thing there; something that looks like television has that production value and yet is not [a] two guys in a room comedy thing. So we shot it and then edited it… and then sent out an email blast to 700 people within ten minutes he emailed me and said, “I wanna sell it”. So he had the relations with Sony already and then we met with basically everybody from NBC to Fox and Sony just seemed like the right home." - Mark Gantt
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