Preview of the Season Finale

Well it's been a long time coming, and frankly, I can tell you it's really going to be worth it.
The Season Finale of Project Nephilim: Salvation is almost here.

One of the biggest things happening on the production is the addition of new footage.

Originally, Project Nephilim was conceived to be an ongoing web series. The hope was to produce roughly 10-20 half hour episodes per season for 5 seasons. That's a lot of episodes.

Once we completed the season, it was decided that the series might work better as a film series, rather than monthly episodes. The complex and intricate story arc required a massive commitment from a massive cast of 25 actors. As you can imagine, on a very limited budget, it became difficult to schedule everyone as needed. With that in mind, and understanding that the season as written would now require a far greater sense of completion than was originally planned, a number of scenes have been added in an attempt to resolve storylines in a far more satisfying way, while setting up the larger story arc that will be seen across the subsequent films.

The first major addition to the season finale comes in the form of additional footage depicting events which were only previously mentioned. Specifically the interaction between Melissa Weller and Robin Quick. Because the events depicted occur several months prior to the beginning of the pilot episode, it was easier to avoid any glaring weather, hairstyle continuity issues. It was also wonderful to be able to work with both Michael Simon (Robin Quick), Danielle Leeber (Mattie Howard) and Shaine Carney (Melissa Weller), three amazing actors who ironically had never gotten a chance to interact on screen with each other.

Many of the flashback shots were done in a single day at various locations, with MIT providing the backdrop. Although in the storyline, it is mentioned that these events occur at BU, MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics provided a far more intreaguing backdrop with it's colder architechture. This was the same location in which many of the Cassie Meeks flashbacks occured in Episode 4.

Although much of the footage shot appear as flashbacks, their inclusion helped to fill in some gaps in the largely dialog driven narrative. In short, we decided to show not tell the events. The ability to show powerful moments from these characters pasts helped to shed some new light into their motivations throughout the series, and of course set up a far greater mystery that will have deep repercussions across the subsequent feature films.

Although not every midcholorian in this season will be explained in the end, many of the lingering questions will be answered, and we believe our audience will be able to move forward with a far greater sense of understanding about the shape of things to come.