The movie's producer and Dreamfly Productions' founder Lisa Jenkins told Big Download a little more about how the movie came about :"We developed this film in-house and I was very specific with the writer with what I wanted." she told us, "I gave him 4 elements: sci-fi genre, must take place on a Texas ranch, must involve modern technology and it must be topical with what's going on in the world today." Since the movie uses a game as part of the plot, Dreamfly Productions decided to make the unusual move and make a working game demo that would be used in the movie itself Jenkins told us, "One of my board members was helpful in getting a garage game company started here and also one of my editors is a huge gamer. The idea just morphed. We also wanted to market the film in a very unique way, sort of two-fold."
The working game demo was created as a joint project of Longhorn Skull Productions with an assist from students at The Guildhall game development school at Southern Methodist University. Jenkins told us, "I met one of the game professors at a Women In Film meeting here in Dallas. It was fate." So far the experience of making a game that's part of a movie's plot has been a new experience for Jenkins. She told us, "The film is very aggressive for the budget and I'm just learning about the gamer world. It's so intriguing. It's almost like learning to speak Mandarin though. I've learned a lot of lingo from the students."

While the movie is still looking for a distributor for its release, Jenkins has already been thinking about having a full commercial version of the Minuteman game created to tie into the movie's release. She told us, "It's not a complete game yet and won't be until we find the right partner to help us complete it and distribute it. Although that could happen very soon."

In the meantime the film is still in production and Jenkins seems pleased with what has been produced so far, saying, "It's pretty amazing. The characters in the game are based on the real characters in the film. You need to see the film to know some of the secrets of playing the game. " In the meantime you can check out the progress of the Minuteman movie at the film's official web site.