DIRECTOR/WRITER: RAMIRO AVENDANO
STARRING [We guess] – Ramiro Avendano, Tony Todd, Jose Rosete
Story/Plot - Totally unknown. But apparently Avendano plays an ex soldier who is caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak where he alone is the hero and has to find people to aid him in his fight to survive???...it doesn’t sound all that original.
Well, here we are again. After two years of boasting that he
would make his BIG film debut, but with a new production team, a real budget,
and some Hollywood talent to brag about that he was able to secure, Ramiro
Avendano made it clear on IMDB that his newest attempt at producing a
professional production would be released for all to see on July 4, 2019. But instead of
proving a point, he’s only done the same old shit that everyone who has
searched this blog has learned...that he has failed to do anything but hype his
own crap that will never see the light of day.
After such a weak trailer (released on THE OATH’s Facebook page) what will be the excuse this time, I wonder? (1) Ramiro has to take the footage to LA to have some professional editors put it together? (2) Ramiro has to hold back the release because...say it with me...”the powers that be at Netflix or Amazon said that they want to see more episodes?” (3) Tony Todd found a real producer in the business who wants to give the series a view first?...oh, the excuses will be plentiful and those in Ramiro’s “inner circle” will completely understand, I’m sure. (4) There’s another possibility that Avendano will push back the release date a few months to buy him time to put something together. Like always, he has a history of pushing release dates back to try and give him some time to try and impress only those around him and his inner circle.
UPDATE!!! - And Avendano does not disappoint as he has changed the release date for THE OATH Series now to October 2019, which is only just a few months away. We have received a few emails that have solidified the opinion within some of the cast and crew that Avendano is grasping for time and more funding to try and complete the two episodes of the series and get them out for release. Any chance of him holding a premiere in Vegas is planned only as a private viewing and probably only at someone’s home with a few cast and crew members allowed to attend. Another rumor [that is now a fact] surfaced from an email that alleged Ramiro and some of his team members planned to re-visit San Antonio to film some scenes to fill in gaps in one of the episodes. Emails have alleged that Avendano has asked several old cast and crew member to assist and mostly all have declined. He handled all camera duties and oversaw all material needed to be completed on a weekend schedule.
With Avendano's personal obsession with Automated Dialog Replacement [or ADR] that also derailed production efforts on another film, there is more confirmation that Ramiro arrived with his wife [Cynthia Chambliss-Avendano] to solely record some lines with local friends in san Antonio and film some small scenes; he in return has asked at least one of the actresses to promote herself as a star in a network series that will be released in October; something Ramiro had asked his old cast and crew to do during the Zombie Reign [ZR] campaign of film production. This is sure to spark a hefty response of older ZR actors and crew who were promised to be paid by Avendano for all of their hard work. But it’s obvious that Avendano will make no plans to visit old cast and crew members to pay them for their services over the course of two to three years that they worked for him. It's even more obvious that that he did not come to San Antonio to actually film, as he doesn't have any permits to film in Texas and he knows he's under a watchful eye now.
The funny thing is, where Avendano truly believes that there’s
this mass following that is patiently waiting for his film to hit the streets
has only been a fabrication of the dream world that he has built up in his
mind. He has started to claim to his cast and crew that OATH will be released on NETFLIX, which is an invalid statement, as his production on OATH and it's Facebook page has already broken most of the rules for submission requirements to the streaming network. True, he has access to some names, but they would never have showed up
unless he had a paycheck for them – that includes some old San Antonio talent
that he brought to Vegas to impress with some new equipment and crew; no one in
their right mind owes any favors to this nobody, that couldn’t produce a film
whether he’s had a cool million dollars to waste on any film project or his now infamous lunch
appetites and exclusive budget on fancy eating at high priced restaurants. What is clear at this point is that Ramiro certainly does not know what he's talking about and the admissions process for OATH will not let him select a release month for the series IF it was approved for acceptance.
We only learned about the release date to THE OATH Series a
few months ago and we jotted down the date on our day planners just to keep an
eye on the premiere – if there would even be one – and see what all of Avendano’s
new hype would present. With the forty some odd Facebook followers [possibly
the cast] who follow his posts, we’re pretty sure that a little over fifty
people would have showed up for any type of premiere.
We’ve seen this Titanic sink before, once a pretty gruesome
death. Even now, the crew in Las Vegas has grown ill of Avendano’s apparent
lack for basic film principles and they’ve begun to jump ship before THE OATH Series
has even been completed. There are rumors that Avendano’s team failed to secure
film permits in Vegas, also as much as filming on locations without permission,
and some other odd behavior that will be released on a later blog after we’ve
confirmed some of the oddities with the actual people who witnessed them.
But for now, this review will stand as a COMPLETE waste of
everyone’s time. I might be willing to change this review should the project
ever actually hit a network or big screen for proper review.
UPDATE! - The OATH Series has only a handful of episodes that are sparsely completed and emails from the Vegas cast and crew have alleged that only two episodes are actually close to being complete, but still require a lot of filming to have them completed for submission to NETFLIX, who requires at least six fully completed episodes to be considered for acceptance into that streaming service contract with the network. And Avendano, who seriously does not know what he's doing or saying, does not have anything that fits withing the required format for submitting to NETFLIX.
💫 [.5 of 5 Stars]
