Hailing all explorers of out-of-this-world cinema! Space Jockey Reviews’ radar recently picked up transmissions hot off the intergalactic presses. Shooting to top priority here at mission control is a new film in the works by director/writer Steve Squall, from Louisville, Kentucky–the headquarters of Space Jockey Reviews too!
Squall says he’s been thinking about the story, titled MUJO, for about ten years now. “A very intricate, very layered type of storytelling” is how he describes it, with the main character, not necessarily a heroine, but a flawed human being, caught in the lowest point of her life. However, from the looks of the latest teaser trailer, the main character, Meta, appears anything but ordinary, with flaws that make a most intriguing, mysterious character, indeed. Meta is described, by Squall, as “a young woman from a section of the Wastes referred to as ‘The Land of the Heartless.'” “When we meet her,” Squall explains, “she is planning on having just another day of self-loathing and substance abuse.” But fate,” he says, “intervenes when she makes an unexpected discovery that sends her on a search for someone from her past.”
“Great artists just take stuff that they’ve grown up with–all the influences and experiences and things that they’ve taken in–and they mash it all together.” ~ Steve Squall.
Where did all of this creativity originate? Squall describes himself as having many movie influences as a child, growing up in Shively–a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. As “the kid who grew up watching the golden age of Spielberg and Star Wars,” he says he fell in love with it all. Squall says that, as a boy, he convinced his parents to take him to see Jurassic Park at the theater six times. He later saved his allowance and bought the movie the day it came out on video, and watched it every day for a month. Squall says he’s making a movie now, because “it’s deep down something I’ve always wanted to do.”
Meta (Olivia Duff) eyes an oncoming foe in Steve Squall’s Teaser Trailer 2 for MUJO.
MUJO is a micro-budget, independent film with a Patreon page and a fundraising campaign currently active on Indiegogo. “I have a very large, very epic story blueprinted out that I would like to tell” says Squall. “But in order to tell that whole story, I need to raise some funds. My team and I already raised $2,000.00 in a crowdfunding campaign earlier this year. That initial funding allowed us to begin production on episode 1, and the results have been spectacular so far. We’ve even put together a trailer to prove it.”
To hear it all in Squall’s own words, check out the “Story Behind MUJO” below (also on Squall’s Patreon and Indiegogo pages).
The trailer for MUJO below is, indeed, a teaser in the truest sense of the word. A bad-ass femme-fatale (actress Olivia Duff) with the look of death breathes heavily in a gas mask and combat boots, while cocking, loading, and aiming a gun (a big one too)! With a car speeding toward her, does she blink, flinch or hesitate? Hell no! What does she do? Watch the trailer, and see for yourself! Space Jockey Reviews already has rockets on the launch pad set to match the high-octane energy abound! And, if this trailer gets you wondering more about the movie’s post-apocalyptic beauty and apparent heroine of fury, Meta, you’re in the company of many at Space Jockey Reviews too! Perhaps there’s an interview somewhere over the SJR horizon. We’ll put the antennas out for that! Stay tuned!
As Squall says, “There’s a whole universe out there that could be explored, and I like exploring.” Of course, SJR fully agrees with that. Keep exploring, Steve! At Space Jockey Reviews, we wish you the best of luck with MUJO!
Check out Steve’s Indiegogo fundraising page for MUJO!
Become a MUJO Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/mujomovie!
For the latest about MUJO (and more), check out stevesquall.com!
Follow actress Oliva Duff (Meta) on Twitter at @thenoisygrl!
Chris Rennirt is the Editor in Chief at Space Jockey Reviews, as well as a movie critic and writer. He has been a judge at many film festivals, including Macabre Faire Film Festival and Crimson Screen Film Fest, and he attends horror and sci-fi conventions often. Chris’ movie reviews, articles, and interviews are published regularly on SJR and in Effective Magazine. His mission statement (detailing his goals as a movie critic and philosophy for review writing) can be found on the “Mission” page, here at SJR. For more information about Chris Rennirt (including contact information, publicity photos, and more), click here.
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