Rough Monday

Rhys Griffiths

Cai Williams

Rhys Griffiths

Jak Evans

Cai Williams

**Rough Monday** is a comedy GTA 5 roleplay film directed by Will Evans, written and produced by Will Evans, Jak Evans and Rhys Griffiths. It is the third film in the *Rough Universe* series of films. It stars Rhys Griffiths and Will Evans reprising their roles as Gogwyn Jones and Steve Surname, also reprising his role is Cai Williams as Rolf. It also stars Jak Evans as Vinny.

## Plot

3 years after they were arrested for possession of counterfeit toys, Gogwyn Jones (Rhys Griffiths) and Steve Surname (Will Evans) are released from prison. Shortly after arriving back home, the two are kidnapped by Gogwyn's cousin, Vinny (Jak Evans). Vinny, wanting his money back from the two after they destroyed one of his trucks, gives the two 24 hours to get him his $50,000. Gogwyn and Steve must find different ways to collect the money, even involving their old "friend" Rolf (Cai Williams).

## Cast

* Rhys Griffiths as Gogwyn Jones
* Will Evans as Steve Surname, Vinny's assistant
* Jak Evans as Vinny, Kenneth the mask store owner
* Cai Williams as Rolf

## Production

Plans for a sequel to the 2017 EP Christmas Special, which acts as an entry to the *Rough Universe* series began shortly after the release of the film. However due to time constraints as well as Rhys Griffiths' departure from EliteProductions, plans to continue the series came to an end.

### Pre-production

In October of 2020, when thinking of ideas for the 2020 Christmas Special, Will Evans, Jak Evans and Daf Manzini suggested to bring back the Gogwyn character however were unsure if Rhys could return to the role. However writing for the film's plot began regardless, in hopes they could convince Rhys to return, which after hearing the plot was happy to reprise his role.

### Filming

Filming began in mid December and was originally planned to release on Christmas Day under the title "EliteProductions Christmas Special 2020" and would act for the team's Christmas special of that year. The style in which the film was filmed was in an improvised roleplay style with only a few lines actually scripted. Production time took a bit longer than expected, with the deadline becoming tighter. So, the team decided to delay the film and instead release it as a standalone film with a slightly changed plot (mostly removing Christmas references). Filming completed in January 2021.

### Post production

Editing on the film began in early January at the same time as filming. And was completed 2 weeks after filming wrapped.

## Release

Rough Monday was released on the team's second channel EP2 on February 12, 2021. The decision to release the film on the second channel rather than the main was because the team thought the film may have been too different than the main channel's content.

## Sequel

A sequel to the film has been discussed and planned. Similar to Rough Monday, the film will be a standalone entry to the series instead of acting as a Christmas Special.

A potential Vinny spin-off was mentioned during an EliteProductions Among Us livestream, with the team stating; "there is so much we can do with this world and its characters, sequels, prequels, spin-offs. They're really fun to make because its basically just us messing around on GTA following a basic script. The only trouble is its hard arranging times with everyone as we all have different jobs with different work hours. But we'll work it out because this is a series we'd love to expand".