Vigilante Article: "Film Makers Fury at 'Destroyed' Vision" "Film Makers Fury at 'Destroyed' Vision" By Andrew PottsA Hollywood style spat has broken out between the creative forces behind locally made film Vigilante. The $1 million film, shot in December 2007, premiered to audiences at the recent Gold Coast Film Fantastic. However, Varsity Lakes resident Aash Aaron, who originally directed, wrote and co-produced Vigilante, has slammed the final version of the film as it was not what he intended. "I want to be known i had nothing to do with (the post production version of) Vigilante being put together, "he said. "The Film is a mess, which is a shame because it was a great project and in the right post- production hands it would be a great Australian film".Mr Aaron, 38, left the project after a falling out with surfers paradise actor-producer Robert Diaz, his former student. "It was a difficult working experience and I wasn't happy with the final product at all," said Mr Aaron. "I really want to see the film put together by the right hands to see what could come out of it."Mr Diaz said a new team was put in place to complete the project after Mr Aaron left the project. "It played well with audiences and we got great feedback." Mr Diaz has said the film was written with an international audience in mind and he hoped Vigilante would conquer the US film market. Shot in Surfers Paradise and Southport, the thriller tells the story of a man hunting his girlfriends killer. The film is yet to be distributed locally and internationally.

Vigilante Newspaper Article: "Training For Action Flick Pulls No Punches"Actor Robert Diaz is getting in the ring in preparation for his upcoming lead role in the Gold Coast, filmed and produced feature film Vigilante. The runaway bay actor has been training for six times a week with martial arts instructor and boxer Glen McLaren, practicing realistic fight-scene-techniques and working on enlarging his bugling muscles. Diaz, who starred in Scooby-Doo, says this was his first major role.The script has been written by Gold Coast director Aash Aaron and will be produced by his production company, Outlandish Films.The first scene will be spot at the Spit later this month. "It's a classic revenge story with a twist. A guy searching for the people who murdered his girlfriend and journeys to the dark side," said Diaz. McLaren will star as Diaz's boxing trainer, as well as training the actors and choreographing fight scenes."We have professional fighters in the film so its important their punches and kicks are in line with the street fighting, thug style to make it realistic." Said McLaren. One of the "thug" bad guys is Logan actor Ozzie Dervish. "I'm always the bad guy, its a type cast i have established for myself", he said. The mean looking Dervish was shaping up with Diaz in the ring at the Gold Coast PCYC yesterday.Diaz said the entire film would be shot on location around Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach and The Spit. "We have spoken to a number of distributors and we are lining up for cinema realize in Australia as well as the US and the UK," he said."We are making a universal film to appeal to a wider demographic, it's going to have international appeal." Diaz said there were ten lead roles, 30 speaking parts and more than 100 extras, as well as the 30-strong film crew.He said capital has been from local private investors across the Gold Coast who wanted to put their money into a rewarding project.

Aash Aaron has created an amazing couple of films.ICU & Vigilante.I can't wait to see what is next? We support you her on the Gold Coast Bro and love your films.You write, producer, direct, cast, edit and whatever else? Man what don't you do? Rock on man your films are awesome! I don't know why anyone would want to rip you off? You do what hardly any other filmmakers in Australia do.Which is produce one film after another.Very cool.

Me and a pal came across this movie while looking for some old style action flicks. And while it does provide some good action and fights, ultimately it's let down by the lead actors wooden performance.It's your standed revenge type flick that sees the hero's life "Luke" destroyed by 3 wannabe tough guys in a senseless violent act. This sets him on a path of self destruction and redemption that has been done before and a lot better too.The lead actress and actors performance where dull, lifeless and unbelievable. Only once did we ever believe him throughout the flick. We both found it hard to sympathize or care about the guy and could care less about his journey. I suspect this has to do with not only his acting but the direction and editing too.Where this flick really shines is in the supporting cast. The 3 tough wannabe crims were all fabulously brought to life and every time they came back on screen the atmosphere picked up.It was these guys that we both found interesting and wanted to watch. Funny, angry and a tad crazy the bad guy "Alex" was a stand out. We both related to him as he had issues with his father that i think most could follow. Though i really felt sorry for his 2 pals that had to follow him around.Over all the movie was a tad disjointed but watchable only for the bad guys and their hilarious attitudes. An average movie made better by these three stooges.MD