Hindsight

A lot of people feel that the film director James Wong, is somehow, me.

The man above is James Wong, known for writing episodes of The X-Files. He wrote the show along with Glen Morgan. He also was the director of the “Final Destination” films (the first and the third if I recall correctly), “The One” starring Jet Li and also continues to write and produce.

The image above is of me with my friend Dani at the Street Fighter IV launch event in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California. For now, this is the closest thing you’ll see me in a photo behind some conveniently placed text as-if-it-were-a-red-carpet-photo-opportunity.

For a few years now, I’ve received messages from people who have something to say to the Director. Recently, every few weeks, I actually receive an e-mail from a fan of the Dragonball series. On some occasions, people ask me to be an extra in the film or have a great idea for the sequel. A few years ago I actually received a full pitch from a film production company with the studio head saying that he “…thought that Final Destination is one of the best horror films in years…”. I’ll thank him for you, if I ever actually meet him.

Well, this evening I received probably the most entertaining e-mail of them all. So I get to share it with you all! Verbatim.

This comes from a user with the sophisticated sender alias “u aregay”.

Dude. Not cool. I dont know what possessed u to ruin such an amazing franchise. When someone is given the opportunity to direct something as wonderful as dragonball and then they shit all over its head then… oh dear.

If u make make another film i will start watching eastenders because its bound to be better than any of ur shit… oh dear.
oh dear…
oh dear…
OH DEAR…

p.s. insert gibberish here… becasue i’d rather listen to that than watch that abortion again.

p.s. (not ALL your fault, but the writer needs to be ground up into a little paste and fed to a gorilla (Oozaru) becasue if he writes the next one i’ll do… oh dear
lots of love

Let’s think for just a minute here. Maybe, just maybe, [filmmaker] James Wong has an address like jwong at foxfilms dot com. No, that’s probably not his REAL address, but I’m just saying. One would think that his e-mail address would be more legitimate, maybe?

If people are finding my e-mail address from my website.. the website you’re at now, just do a little research here. My resume is somewhere there, and if you searched a little more, there’s also an age difference between us.

Me (an Associate Producer standing next to Jace Hall):

Him (a Producer, Writer and Director):

I’m not James Wong. But I am James Wong. I do like to direct and edit videos when my creativity gets going. But, no, I haven’t seen Dragonball Evolution.

I’m looking forward to the next round of e-mails after Mr. Wong is attached to a new project. It’ll give me something more to write about.