Damien Puckler Unofficial  :  Can you introduce you and Starfall creators crew ? 

John : this is a tough one, because I'm generally not comfortable with talking about myself. :)

But...I've been writing since about 12 years old--I also spent a lot of time reading. Classics, spy novels, sci-fi, fantasy, everything I could get my hands on. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings really inspired me to pursue writing.

I've written everything from tech manuals and business plans, to short stories and magazine articles, to novels and screenplays. I self-published my first novel, "The Hordes of Rage," in 2006. 2000 saw my first screenplay, "The Harvesters," that was actually shown on French TV in 2001 (or so our distributor told us). In 2007, the documentary I wrote, A Glimpse of Heaven and a Taste of Hell, won a couple of film festival awards. And of course, you know about Starfall and the prequel novel and the comic.

Another major contributor is Les Zigomanis, an Australian writer/editor at Busybird Publishing in Melbourne. Les gets credit for a lot of the original foundations of Starfall, although we've changed many, many things since then.

 Tyler Bourns, the director, has seen the vision of Starfall from the beginning and added to it. I pulled his bio from IMDb:

At just 17 years old, Tyler Bourns produced and directed the no-budget full length feature film, Ashland, that won awards at both the Indie Gathering and the WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival. After numerous television pilots as a Director of Photography and Editor, he directed "A Glimpse of Heaven and a Taste of Hell," which went on to win a Silver Remi award, a Bronze Telly Award, and aired on PBS in July 08'.

Tyler went on to work for McNulty Nielsen Productions in North Hollywood and in 2009 he Directed an Anti-Meth PSA Spot Featuring Emmy Award Winning Actor Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad/Malcolm in the Middle).

Tyler founded a video production company, Bourns Productions Inc, in 2010 in Reno, NV, specializing in narrative and documentary films, corporate videos, commercials, music videos and more. To date, Tyler has worked on hundreds of Professional Video Productions including a short film that played during the 2012 MTV Movie Awards featuring Joel McHale. Tyler produced and directed the award winning two hour documentary Freedom 50/50 in 2011 and in 2012, Tyler served as Director of Photography on two Low Budget Indie Films - The Award Winning Film "Nowhere Nevada" and "The Ashes of Brush Flats." In 2013 he DP'd the 20 minute short film "Look Twice."

  There are others who have contributed significantly to Starfall: Richard Hescox brought forth a vision of the Command Deck, his sketches being consistent with our ideas, and Petter Wahlback has composed a theme for Starfall which again, captures the spirit of the show. Scott Nakada designed the logo and the preliminary look of the starship, and will further develop our vision at time goes on.

 DPU  : About Starfall, when did you decide to do this project, ? How it come true ? Can you tell us more about Starfall ? Where it take place , when ? What's the particularity of the show ?

John : I can tell you a lot about Starfall, so I'm not sure what you are looking for, but...

Starfall takes place about 300 years in the future, in a galaxy that is filled with alien governments. Humanity has recently been freed from almost a century of slavery and although free, are still looked at by many groups as a second-class, barbaric race. A few aliens are still practicing slavery and committing atrocities against humans despite the laws against it (this is the premise for Terra Rising).

Stafall is a space-opera, that is, it takes place primarily in outer space and on board spacecraft. Very little of the show takes place "on the ground" on planets. Almost none of the show takes place on Earth or even in our Solar System.

Some of the major themes of the show are bigotry and discrimination, racial profiling, and so on. For the characters, other themes include, being true to yourself, accepting who you are and who you're not, being who you want to be rather than what others want.

It's also a military sci-fi. The spacecraft that most of the show revolves around is the Ardri Jennet, a military vehicle in the 2nd Expeditionary Corps, which is a branch of the of the military of the Allied Republics, a major galactic government. The 2nd Expeditionary Corps is much like the Foreign Legion in that recruits are not the best of the best and are usually running/hiding from something in their past

 DPU: The comic Terra Rising is a prequel of Starfall , inside we can see a character who really looklike Damien Puckler , Is that the thing which decided you to ask him ? 

John: Terra Rising is a prequel, but the main character is Max Scythe (an acquaintance of Will Hunter's that we'll see sometime in the show). The similar appearance of Max to Damien is purely coincidental. Our choosing of Damien was based on how he looks, sure, but not because of Terra Rising. More importantly, we picked Damien because of his great work on Grimm, among other things. He's a great actor who can pull off the role of Will Hunter perfectly.

DPU: Can you talk about the others actors you chose for the show ? 

John : What we looked for in the other actors is

1. are they right for the part (look, demeanor, experience, talent)

2. are they available

3. are they interested

With Andrew Jackson--I think I had Andrew in my mind when I created his character. I don't normally do that; but I know Andrew, and have loved his work for a long time. And he's been a staunch supporter of Starfall almost from the beginning.

Ellen Dubin--another one whose work I've loved. Didn't know her personally (she's close with Andrew), but when Andrew introduced us, we clicked. The only trouble was, Ellen is so talented we had difficulty picking which role she would be the best at!

Bill Oberst Jr.--answered a casting call we put out at IMDb. Not being much of a horror fan myself, thinking of Bill in sci-fi was definitely outside the box. But again, he's got the skills (his Criminal Minds character is brilliant).

Richard Leacock--was a happy coincidence. We were working with an agent on another actor (who dropped out), and the agent mentioned Richard, who, now we see, if perfect for the role!

Valerie Mya--although very new, she's got amazing skills. And in the classic "it's who you know" vein, she is a good friend of Tyler's. He lobbied heavily for her, but once I saw some of her work, it was a no-brainer.

 And, of course, we've talked about Damien.

 The biggest thing is, without exception, all of these talented people, once they heard more about the show and read the script, have fallen in love with Starfall. That's the most amazing thing to me!

DPU : Do you know when the first episode will be airing on line? How many time an episode will need for to be entirely shoot ?  Episode will be available on line for the world or only American people ? 

John: We'll shoot in November, then start on post-production right away. It's hard to say how long that will take--it depends on how fast the CGI/SFX guys work, and the composer doing the music, editing and so on. And everything slows down during the holidays. I'm hoping for February--I wish it would be sooner, but I doubt if it will be.

But once it's all done, it's only a matter of uploading it and it'll available online. As far as where, I know it'll be on Vimeo as a video-on-demand. We're also shooting for iTunes, Crackle and some other outlets. But we are looking globally. I don't know if you get Vimeo in Europe, but we will find outlets that give people all over the world a chance to view it.

As far as how many episodes--it will take 6-8 webisodes to make an hour long, traditional episode. But our intent is to begin working on the second webisode as soon as the first one is out.

That's the plan!

DPU :  What's the difference between filming a TV Show and a web serie ? Sponsor, Budget , publicity ? 

John: In traditional TV, the process generally works like this: put together a concept and pitch it to executives, if they like it, they'll "order" a pilot, that is, give you a certain amount of money to make it. If the pilot works, then more episodes get ordered, and so on.

For a webseries, everything is done independently. Concept to script to pre-production to shooting to post to distributon--it's all done with the resources of whoever is running the thing. The good thing is you own it (rather than the studio who "orders" a pilot), the bad thing is you're limited to your own resources. Most webseries are done very cheaply. Even the better ones are generally made with less than 10% of the budget of a traditional TV show. You tend to get very creative with finding ways to finance it.

With Starfall, my intent has always been to produce something--even though it's a "webseries"--that's good enough to show on TV. My view is that we reach this standard or we don't do it. So far, we've managed to achieve that goal (look at the actors we have versus most of the other webseries), but money is always an ongoing battle. We'd be pleased to talk to potential investors even now.

So I guess, really, there's not that much different between a traditional TV show and a webseries--it all come down to money!

DPU :  Some other project are in your mind ? 

I always have other projects in mind. A trilogy of fantasy novels, another (non-sci fi) TV show, feature film scripts, etc...But everything is taking a back seat until Starfall is fully functioning.