The first project to come out of our North Carolina-based startup KWerky Productions, Forcery is a film that was almost four years in the making prior to its release in early June 2005. The brainchild of KWerky co-founder Christopher Knight, Forcery is a parody of Rob Reiner's film adaptation of Stephen King's Misery. The 1990 thriller, based on King's own experiences with obsessed fans, is widely considered to be one of the stand-out thrillers of the Nineties. Co-star Kathy Bates won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Annie Wilkes, the unbalanced fan of a series of romance novels written by Paul Sheldon (played by James Caan).

Forcery's concept is simple: re-create the formula that made Misery so effective as a psychological suspense. But instead of a best-selling author of books and his "number-one fan", Forcery is about George Lucas, who through practically the same set of circumstances finds himself the hapless, helpless guest of Frannie Filks: a woman with a shady past and an unhealthy adoration for the Star Wars movies.

The very idea suggested to us some IMMENSE opportunities for transforming what were originally Misery's very tense situations into moments of hilarious comedy... and maybe a little bit of wry commentary. It wasn't necessary for us to come up with much from scratch for Forcery: just putting Lucas and an obsessed Star Wars fan in the same situations practically wrote the scenes on its own. One of the best (and one of our favorite) moments illustrating this is Frannie's monologue about the Han and Greedo scene in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The (in)famous alteration that Lucas made for the Special Edition provided great material for not only how to use Annie's rant about Saturday-afternoon serials from Misery, but also for some reflection on one of the most hotly debated subjects in Star Wars history: should - or shouldn't - Han have shot Greedo first? Forcery doesn't seek to address that one way or another, but we did come up with what we think may be the most logical explanation for why Greedo shoots first from '97 on out.

That's one example of something that everyone will know what we're talking about when they watch Forcery. It's easily viewable by anyone (and don't worry about violence: it's VERY family friendly... except for the part where Chris' character is killed and for some reason his own family thought was the funniest part of the movie) but there are also roughly a hundred in-jokes and sight gags scattered throughout the movie that fans of both George Lucas and Stephen King will appreciate. Hint: don't blink during the car crash. And so far as we know Stephen Sansweet really is looking for a Return of the Jedi Huffy bicycle... or at least was looking for it. The only thing we really "made up" was the part about the Yoohoo, but if you've seen Misery you'll know already why that was put in here.

We hope you'll enjoy watching Forcery, our very first movie. We had a wonderful time making it: we learned a lot from this first time producing a film, and some really good friendships were made while this was in production. And now we have to get to work on our NEXT project but in the meantime: Enjoy Forcery!

-- the filmmakers