A Former Legionaire Turns Low Grade Hitman In The New Action Comedy Webseries, HITTING HOME
Blending quirky comedy, family drama and awkward romance with exciting action is executive producer, writer and director Steve Dispensa‘s newly debuted pilot premiere for the webseries, Hitting Home. The pilot, resulting from years of conceptual work, development and crowd funding, originally started out as an MFA thesis Dispensa began working on back in 2007 for the Brooklyn College Department Of Television and Radio.
Hitting Home stars Phillip De La Cal as Joe, a post-college grad who is forced to make some hard decisions about his life after getting dishonorably kicked out of the French Foreign Legion. Jobless and in debt with no girlfriend and forced to move back home with his parents, he gets a job working as a lowly paid assassin for a shady debt collections agency headed by a former Legionaire himself who buys out Joe’s debt. Consequently, Joe has no choice but to survive his new job until his debt disappears, while maintaining his sanity as he tries repair his fractured relationships with his ex-girlfriend and his family.
The pilot is close to an hour long, and is now available on Youtube, with several film festival appearances in the making. Hitting Home also stars April Grimes, Amanda Holston and Pascal Yen-Pfister, with action and stunt coordination by versatile mixed martial artist and weapons expert, Clodagh Power.
Check out the trailer below, and click HERE to view the pilot episode. And for more info, follow the series progress at the official website, as well as Facebook.
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