ENTERTAINMENT

- reported by Osiris.


Rotters Int. received an email with the following picture attachment.


















The email claimed that it was a leaked draft storyboard from a Paramount Pictures studio which contained the first ten seconds of the movie Rainbow Six, featuring locations in Singapore. The movie project had remained stagnant ever since director John Woo left the production team, and it had been shuffled among different studios.

Rotters contacted Paramount Pictures for confirmation and more details, but instead received a negative reply. In the email, Dean Chervest wrote:

Rainbow Six is still on the drawing board, but the attached storyboard does not belong to us. In fact, we have lost all our actual storyboards due to a fire in our design studio two months ago, and we're currently working with the team on a new storyline. We regret to say that Singapore is not on the list of our locations, as we're thinking more of a European or American setting.

A tiring search to find the owner of the mystery storyboard ended when we were contacted by a young Singaporean director who declined to be named. He apologised for causing so much confusion and inconvenience with the leak of his storyboard, and also gave us some details of the actual project.

The storyboard indeed was based on Tom Clancy's novel and video game series Rainbow Six, and it was intended for a 60-second advertising video which was to be an entry for a video competition organized by Pinnacle and local magazine publisher Hardware Zone. The director acknowledged that the storyboard was a first draft, hence the shabby quality. He also told us that the story will be based entirely in Singapore, but declined to give more information, since the production team and set details have yet to be arranged.

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