During the Summer of '98, my girlfriend (who had become pregnant somewhere during the shoot) and I had to go out of town for some reasons... There, in a kind of road trip feeling, we had just bought coffee from a place called SECOND CUP we have around here (in Montreal) and there, she said: "If you're ever doing a cup sequel, you should called it SECOND CUP"... And again, the smile from a girl and Pfsssss... !! Already, that line started a "running gag" back home, and it never wanted to go away. BEWARE: Jokes can, and will, be taken seriously... !!

I had done it. I had directed a short (video) film called "KILLER CUP". YEAH. Telling that to people, they all said "Killer WHAT... ??", and immediately, with some basic expectations, wanted to see it. Many others thought I had just said KILLER "COP" and where like, "Yeah this is gonna kick some serious shit"... (some of whom became great crew members ever since, like Jacques Roy and Mathieu Rivard) But the editing was far from being done yet. Oh, yeah!!

If I had made the editing right next after the principal shooting was over, God only knows how terrible it would have looked. You need time for something like this. Time to get it right. Cause up to this point, it was no longer just a crazy joke anymore.

With the baby now coming up, I had to find what they called "a serious job". Looking around, and knowing myself, I pretty mutch just tried video stores and theaters... till I finally found a place in both of them. Since you never know what you'll find in return, this is all making part of "IT", in a strange way. Working at night at the video store, one of my customers was a guy called Marco Calliari (one of the two singers from Montreal's top metal band called "ANONYMUS", also composed of Oscar and Daniel Souto and Carlos Araya) who soon became a great friend of mine while hagning on my shift for new releases to arrive. On the other side, at day at the theater, I met Monique Lemieux (a very well talented artist who has "a HELL of a hand for drawings") and André Dubois, the biggest Godzilla fan on Earth who's also a member of the great FANT-ASIA Films Festival (where, one year, I also had the chance to met with John Carpenter, dress up like Michael Myers, and took the time to tell him what I had just done...). And, yeah, I must not forget Jonathan Aubin, fellow co-worker, who's always ready to help for "what ever crazy things I'll need"... plus all the others I've met at the same period (are you happy now ?!). One day, I was working the (damn) candy bar when a friend of André, called ...ric Lavoie, came right at me. He was getting ready to direct one of his own films, he said, and needed help with some Zombie make-up. "What the Heck", I said to myself, playing a zombie in a cemetery is always fun at night, dawn or day... So I went there for a couple of hours and helped him out on "The SILENT INVASION".

But I always kept in mind my "KILLER CUP" editing, all of that time. Working on this and other projects, time passed. And as time passed, time also changed. Almost FOUR LONG YEARS had passed before the editing really happened... I no longer was with my son's mother. Things did not turn out pretty well, I guess. And up to this day, this is still my greatest loss.

Back with the Cups... The editing was starting to work, but only in my head. Looking at the RUSHES from the "TAPE MASTERS" over and over again, I realized one night that a certain scene was not gonna be clear to people, with just the footage I had taken, when (it will be one day) finally edited. In the story, a cup "infiltrated" a dead girl's body (Mira Staffieri) and uses it as a kind of body armor against his mortal enemies (...ric Aupin and Parize Chevalier)... There, I was missing the inserts from where the cup stands at that moment... piece of cake !! I took a cardboard box, and created a "not realistic at all" girl's belly for the inside p.o.v. ... or the goriest muppet show ever built. Calling Yannick again, he came back to finish that with me (what was already "supposed to be" over for now two years...). And still, that was not the only "missing part"... !!

Taking beers with my friends around the same period on a hot summer night, we started to crack jokes again...(Oops !!) There, around the stroke of midnight, we talked about the possibility of promotion, stickers, gear and (cup) stuff... all of what could come out of our dizzy half drunk heads. Richard (Pearson) was now working his way with computers and said that IT was ALL POSSIBLE. So out of a sudden, I was about to have merchandises (t-shirts and every thing). And when I called for somes cute and sexy "Womens G-Strings", he simply said that it was possible too !! That was it, no more beers for me that night. In a "sky's the limit" fashion, I gave Rick the "special task" to build me up a short sequence with a CGI Cup for my "grande finale"... And when the first batch of 500 stickers came in (in a good BLAIR WITCH's spirit), I posted them all over the place with two of my friends (Jean-Simon and Peter Bissonnette), on mail boxes, road signs, bus stops and metro stations. THE INVASION HAD STARTED... and soon, "some other freaks" took the concept design to hand and started to draw graffiti with all kinds of obscenity attached to them (I swear, I never drew a cup that said "Suck my dick !!"). So my idea was truly working ?? YEAH !! In a way, Summer 2001 had really became the point of "non retour" for me, just one year left before the long awaited "put all of this together" took place.

The problem was, I also had written the Sequel's SCRIPT at that moment... !!!

I now wanted "KC" to have a kind of "comic book" style... as if it ever could be a Saturday morning show for kids. And in order to do that, I needed first the help of Monique (Lemieux). I drew her some sketchs (taking on my time at work), mostly just the idea, and she started drawing them back with her own perfect feminine touch... the perfect way I had figured them out.

I also hoped for them to have a sort of "Theme Song" (more kind of like Danny Elfman's MARCH of the DEAD from ARMY of DARKNESS). I never did music in my life, but trusting where I wanted IT to go, I started to play with sounds and noises (going the Rob Zombie speed way) till I pretty mutch had found IT up to my taste. This, was supposed to happen when all the Cups are called to the Leader, and walked/crawl in legions to the point of "rendez vous". Here with that, "TOUM-Toum-tou, ta na, TOUM-Toum-toum..." scratched on a loose piece of paper, I went straight to the ANNONYMUS guys and tried my best to sell them my ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE concept. They took my instructions on video tape (silly how that footage must look, and I hope it'll never end up on a DVD version... never.), and translated my "mumbo-jumbo" on CD with their professional equipment. Just like THE REAL THING !!

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