The Watchdog

The Watchdog is a 2557 action/adventure film written and directed by Remi Bonzel, a student at the Victorian School of the Arts. Produced on a shoe-string budget by Bonzel and his team of fellow students, the story focuses on a disgruntled computer scientist on pre-war Reach who uses his skills as a hacker to embark on a vigilante crusade in to take down corrupt corporations and government officials. Using 's cities to stand in for New Alexandria's urban setting, Bonzel reportedly had trouble settling on the costume design for protagonist Adrian Pace until meeting Gavin Dunn, a spacer hired on to transport props from set to set. Bonzel convinced Dunn to lend him his cap and overcoat for the filming and later hired the former Insurrectionist on to advise his team on action scenes and to serve as the stunt double for Pace's actor.
The film was well received at film festivals on Victoria, but met with mix reviews when exposed to Inner Colonial audiences who disliked what some viewed as "anti-government" sentiments expressed by the film while others criticized it as being "thematically pretentious." It has since become a cult film, particularly among frontier audiences.
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