The soon-to-be-completed documentary film that its makers hope will become "the ultimate piece of University of Kentucky basketball fan memorabilia" began in an unusual way.
Brothers Tim and Steve Bates had an idea for a reality TV show. "It was about being too old to make it in the music business," Steve Bates says. "It was called Too Old To Rock & Roll."
One day, the brothers were lamenting the difficulty in attracting financing in Central Kentucky for entertainment ideas. The television news was playing in the background. It showed a picture of Kentucky Wildcats fans camping out for tickets to Big Blue Madness.
Says Tim Bates: "Our sister (Tara Kleycamp) sort of made the comment, 'If you guys are going to do a documentary, that's what you need to do it on right there, how crazy the (Kentucky fans) are.'"
An idea was planted. When the Bates brothers met with the local film director Jason Epperson about their rock and roll concept, they also mentioned they had been mulling some kind of UK basketball documentary.
"I've wanted to do a UK project since I got into filmmaking," says Epperson, 36, a Winchester native who finished as runner-up on a 2007 Fox reality TV show for aspiring filmmakers called On The Lot.
The Bates brothers and Epperson began to brain storm over ideas for a UK basketball-oriented feature film.
"We were all trying to decide, what is the (UK basketball) film we can do that everyone would just want to come to?" Epperson said. "And it kept coming back to the fans. We were like 'Let's do it on the fans.'"
Some two years later, the trio and their fourth partner, WLEX TV personality and comic Lee Cruse, are working to put the finishing touches on Sixth Man — A Krazy Love Story.
The word I've heard from other Lexington media members who have seen parts of the film is that it is good. If all goes as planned, the film will be available for purchase in time for March Madness, 2013. (For sales information, monitor the website 6thmanmovie.com).
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