Big Mike Leeder - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I was born or possibly hatched an increasingly long time ago in a galaxy far far away, Croydon and lets just say that a more treacherous hive of scum and villainy you would be hard pressed to find....In spite of being a somewhat clueless and very naive fellow, i somehow managed to mostly survive a good many years of very bad haircuts, a complete lack of fashion sense, a very less than taken seriously education(I'd like to blame Thatcher, but hey i didn't really push myself back then) and even a few years of the old 9-5..until if my fading memory serves me well, a very drunken game of monopoly with the dodgy geezers saw me not passing go and collecting 200 pounds but instead waking up in a 24 HR McDonalds in 1990 Hong Kong.Happily resided here since then working as an occasional actor, a writer, a doorman at times, a very bad martial artists, a producer, a casting director and at various times a drunken buffoon and gwailoRegrets, well I've had a few but then again far too many to mention without plunging me into the darkest pits of depressionhad my ups and downs, found love, lost love, rediscovered love, lost it again behind the sofa, and no doubt shall continue to do so...have come to the conclusion that myself and serious relationships just dont get alongWorking in film and media is far more fun than Allders of Croydon, even if the hours are slightly less stable !!! Have worked in front and behind the camera on such projects as "Gen-Y Cops", "Kickboxer King", "Nightlife Hero", "Fearless", "Rush Hour 3" and more....throw in a lot of DVD and magazine work and is it any wonder I need some sleep...... You can find me on the web at www.impactmoviemagazine.co.uk and my company www.screenops.com

My Interests

Sex and drugs and rock and roll Is all my brain and body need Sex and drugs and rock and roll Are very good indeed Keep your silly ways or throw them out the window The wisdom of your ways, I've been there and I know Lots of other ways, what a jolly bad show If all you ever do is business you don't like

I'd like to meet:

the man who said "tis better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all"...what an idiot? Him and the "they all lived happily ever after" guy had better watch out if I see them!!John Lennon, Bruce Lee, Alexander Fu Sheng, John Belushi, Stan the man Chan again you left us too soon brother.....

Music:

Queen, the Beatles, Peter Gabriel, Dave Matthews Band, Sigue Sigue SPutnik, The Cross, Barenaked Ladies, Angunn, Wendy & Lisa, Chage & Aska, Robbie Williams, Jesus Jones, the Doors, a bit of everything actually depending on the mood

Movies:

Star Wars, the orginal unsullied trilogy Lucas! Han Solo always shot first thats why he rocks! Highlander. Eastern Condors. Clerks. Mallrats. Chasing Amy. Dogma. Jay & Silent Bob. Clerks 2. Pedicab Driver. Dragons Forever. Where's Officer Tuba? Prodigal Son. Nightlife Hero. Fearless. Dawn of the Dead. Nightmare on Elm Street. Snake In The Monkeys Shadow. Day of the Dead. Evil 2. Re-Animator

Television:

SPACED. The Goodies. Saturday night Live. The Young Ones. Doctor Who. Smallville. Buffy. Angel. My Name Is Earl.

Books:

The Tao Of Poo. Sun Tzu. The Bible..suprisingly a lot of sex and violence in that!

Heroes:

Kevin Smith, John Lennon, Jackie Chan, Stan Lee, Simon Pegg, John Woo, Spider-Man, Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, George Romero, Neil Marshall, the man who invented twiglets and many moe

My Blog

April Showers

Wow its April 6th already...where the hell is 2008 going?been meaning to drop a more frequent blog since I got back...oh wellBeen busy wrapped some pick ups on "The Bodyguard: A New Begining", did the...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:49:00 PST

The Mummy 3 Adventure is Over and I’m home in Hong Kong

Howdy doody folksThe Mummy 3 adventure has come to an end, back in Hong Kong after a wild few months in Beijing, Tianmo, Yangqing, Shanghai, Sianjiang and Hengdien.....a hard shoot but great experienc...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:35:00 PST

Adventure, Excitement and bloody sand in my pants!!

Its been a cool year of projects "the bodyguard" reality show, "The White Wall", "Blood: Last Vampire" and then "The Bodyguard: A New Begining", now begins the biggest "The Mummy 3"Gonna be working wi...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:57:00 PST

Im getting old, but hey so is everybody else

Well been meaning to drop a bog for a while but no bloody timeWrapped the Hong Kong shoot for "The Bodyguard:A New Begining", hard work but good experience and think we put together a pretty good pack...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 07:42:00 PST

Movie Making

Wow July 2007 already...damn where is the year going? Flat out at the moment, ran off to work on "Blood:Last Vampire" for a bit, came back and jumped onto tech scout for "Mummy 3'...got back to Hong K...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:55:00 PST

Busy Busy busy

Howdy Folks,How you all doodling? Busy Busy Busy is the current status...just got back from a mad month of trips to China, working on one project and doing location recce for another which could be a ...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 09:12:00 PST

Busy Busy Busy

Bloody Hell,Busy as hell, bunch of stuff all happening at the same time, which is good just a little franticJust wrapped Line Production on an American Indie "The White Wall", shot in LA and with us i...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Thu, 03 May 2007 06:15:00 PST

Easter Bollocks

Its Easter monday, April 9th already where the hell is this year going so fast and can I go to?Mad couple of weeks, had some old friends in town from when i was at school, brought back some mad memori...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:19:00 PST

Time flies when you're having fun

God we're halfway through march 2007 already...shit I'm either having a lot of fun or just getting old......Been busy few months, waiting for companies to pay me, amazing the excuses a big company can...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 07:02:00 PST

And so this is Christmas..well almost

December 13th....where the hell has 2006 goneCan't believe its a year since I headed over to Germany and then back to the UK for my first Christmas in the olde country in 15 yearsAnd see I only went a...
Posted by Big Mike Leeder on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 07:45:00 PST