Geek Start a Go Go: The Lord of Catan
The Lord of Catan stars Amy Acker (Angel, Much Ado About Nothing) and Fran Kranz (Cabin in the Woods, Dollhouse) as Krysta and Todd, a young married couple who find themselves thrust into an apocalyptic rivalry over a game of Settlers of Catan.
The Lord of Catan is designed to be accessible to anyone, regardless of their knowledge of the game. The dynamics between husband and wife, the unity and discord of competition, and the domestic tensions from their marriage that are forced out into the open will be familiar to anyone, regardless of your familiarity with the game.
Also there are penis jokes.…
It was like remembering something that had never actually been forgotten. It had just been set to the side.
Quick bullet points from the creator: “Always knew I wanted to be a writer. Loved movies. Hated quotation marks. Went to USC Film School. Studied Screenwriting. Graduated in ’05. Spent the next eight years in the trenches of the studio system. Wrote some comics. Got paid for some stuff. Nothing got made. Realized I was just feeding the machine. I am Jack’s organ grinding monkey dancing for the corporate overlords. Remembered that I had gotten into this game to make movies. Decided to make a movie.
“The problem was that every time I sat down to write something to shoot, I ended up with a script that would cost approximately a bajillion dollars to make. What I needed was something simple. Something small. Or at least small-ish. Then the universe slapped me across the face and said, ‘Here you go, you idiot! A movie about two people in one room. No space oceans. No six-phalanged magical gunslingers. A monkey could make this for five thousand dollars!'”