In the winter of 2006, I decided to start construction on one of the most elaborate sets in a script Nic Costa and I had completed three years earlier. I didn't tell anybody. I didn't outline a shooting plan or evaluate my resources. I just started building.     Of the three scripts Nic and I wrote in 2003, The Mad Scientist was by far the most ambitious and the most illogical choice to start production on between the three. Why did I do this? My answer is simple. I just didn't give a shit about the other two scripts. Not that they were inferior. In fact, they are better scripts. But the characters and the world of The Mad Scientist had become an obsession of mine.

           I had recently completed/distributed my first feature film, Evil Cult or Neil Stryker and the Cult Farm (As it SHOULD have been titled) in early 2003 witch I co-wrote, co-directed with my twin brother, Neil Taylor. I was not ready to shelve these characters for the moment. Quite the contrary. I only just began to discover their humanity during the last two months of its thirteen month production. And though our two other scripts were of Hollywood caliber, they didn't speak to me like The Mad Scientist did. And so, I began to build. My peers took notice and soon all my close friends and colleagues were in my parents shed with me preparing to build a fully functional private library w/ moving bookcases and all. It was a massive effort and a beautiful set. And the result was a whole fifteen minute chunk of the 120 pg script. Too bad we had to scrap the whole thing. We ended up rewriting and reshooting the whole scene nine years later in March of 2015 when we finally wrapped principle photography on what was now called Neil Stryker and the Tyrant of Time.