{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68bcc11d1af371182a330d09/69e68da1289eeb2c7b251e5c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"S5. Episode 6. Seb Hunter And His Elder Movie (Trailer...)","description":"<p>Scott and the assembled Order of Mildly Concerned Scholars (Wolfie… and special guest <a href=\"https://provincials.bandcamp.com/album/ascending-summer-ep\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Seb Hunter</a>, emerging from the fog like a man who’s seen what lies beyond the fourth gate of The Elder) convene for what was supposed to be a routine episode and instead becomes something far stranger: an encounter.</p><p>Because this week isn’t just about&nbsp;Music from The Elder.</p><p>It’s about a man who looked at that album—its ambition, its confusion, its&nbsp;<em>audacity</em>—and decided the real problem wasn’t that it failed…it’s that no one had finished the job.</p><p>What follows is less an interview and more a careful excavation of a long-dormant creative experiment. Scott and Wolfie guide the conversation as Seb Hunter recounts, with equal parts clarity and disbelief, how a throwaway idea—<em>“what if someone actually made The Elder into a movie?”</em>—mutated into a full-blown production effort:</p><ul><li>A screenplay written in earnest</li><li>A trailer shot with real actors and real intention</li><li>A grassroots network of collaborators, fans, and the occasional internet wildcard</li><li>And a persistent awareness that somewhere, possibly,&nbsp;Gene Simmons&nbsp;could shut the whole thing down with a single phone call</li></ul><p>Seb is reflective, candid, and occasionally amused by his past self—the version of him who thought, quite reasonably at the time, that you could just… make a movie. The hosts, for their part, oscillate between fascination and the dawning realization that they are speaking with someone who got closer to solving&nbsp;<em>The Elder</em>&nbsp;than anyone ever should.</p><p>There is talk of ambition.</p><p>Of creative delusion (the productive kind).</p><p>Of the brutal math of filmmaking—where passion is abundant and money is not.</p><p>Because if&nbsp;<em>The Elder</em>&nbsp;taught KISS anything, and if this project teaches us anything now, it’s this:</p><p>You can build the world.</p><p>You can write the script.</p><p>You can even gather the fellowship.</p><p>But eventually…</p><p>someone has to pay for the horses.</p><p><br></p><p>Seb's band - The Provincials - check out their video here</p>","author_name":"Chaz Charles, Greg Wolfe, Scott Monroe, Corey Morrisette"}