Released on Wednesday, the 20-second video, set in Harry Styles’ “Watermelon Sugar”, shows off Bass’s skillful and fluid visual effects skills, sense of humor, and acting skills in a visual tribute to his heroes. favorites including a Jedi Knight, Ben 10 and Spider-Man. He simply captioned the video with the words, “If you can retweet this as many times as Disney calls, that would be greatly appreciated.”
if you guys can retweet this as many times as Disney calls, that would be much appreciated pic.twitter.com/GrKlIRxg3J
– Julian Bass (@thejulianbass) July 2, 2020
By the end of Thursday night, the video had been viewed 10 million times, retweeted 300,000 times, liked more than 650,000 times, and inspired a fledgling fan campaign for Bass to become the star of a Miles Morales front Spiderman live action movie.
Quite quickly, helped immeasurably by massive Twitter tagging, the video also caught the eye of some of Hollywood’s biggest names with responses and retweets from people like Oscar winner Matthew Cherry, Guardians of the Galaxy James Gunn, actor Josh Gad and Ben 10 voice actor Tara Strong. Tagged people Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Director Peter Ramsey, to see if he could help Bass in any way, replied, “Look at all those likes … he helped himself!”
More than retweets, Lonely Island’s official Twitter account said he had sent the video to Disney and visual effects giant Industrial Light & Magic, actor Zach Braff urged Gunn to “hire this man” and yes, the video Finally, it caught the attention of Disney Chief Executive Bob Iger replied, “The world will know your name!”
“I jokingly asked about Disney and got the president himself,” Bass said. Hollywood reporter about direct message late Thursday. “I had no idea that it would be that big. I mean, I’ve always put 100% into the videos I make and they’re generally well received by those around me, but nothing of this caliber,” he said.
“It’s crazy. There’s no other way to say it,” Bass says of the reaction to the video and enthusiasm for his work. “A while back, I saw a video that went viral that Matthew Cherry saw, this was before he had a Twitter account, and he and I are now connected! But people like James Gunn, Tara Strong, Casey Neistadt, Josh Gad, Mark Hamill himself! I mean, these are people who have always been on my radar and it means everything to me that has now inspired me to a point where I am with them. And as for Bob Iger, [it’s the] the icing on the cake !! ”
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Under said THR that the people of Hollywood approached him but did not reveal any details just that “there will definitely be some discussions about what can be done in the future.” He joked that “it seems like 8 million people want it to be Miles Morales!”
Social media fame has come quickly, but Bass has been making videos for 9 years, starting with Lego stop-motion, then moving on to video and visuals when he was in high school in the Atlanta suburbs. Some of her early videos won awards at local film festivals, and one titled Take it, won a National PTA Reflections award.
Now in his third year at GSU, Bass had also recently worked as a motion designer and editor at GCPSTV, but he says he left that position because “it got to the point that even small TikTok promotions paid more than the station did. did”. decided to lean in to make fun edits on TikTok. “
Although his undoubted video skills have drawn attention, he says THR that cinema is a means to an end. “The funny thing is that acting has always been my focus. Most of the things I have learned over the years about cinema have been to be able to act in any way I could imagine. I always wanted to be a superhero, play a superhero, so I learned VFX and did it myself ”
He added: “When I was a child, I couldn’t sit back and wait to grow or wait for a friend to do it for me. I felt that the only way to accurately represent what I was dreaming of was to do it myself.” “
So far Bass has done it all himself, but with all the millions of views, retweets, and increased signals from Hollywood heavyweights, as well as the attention of a certain Bob Iger, help, if you need it, no it will be far away.
