Blockchain: The beer necessities

Maurice Schutte has been a TV and film producer for over a decade but his current project is creating what he dubs, ‘”the Space Beers universe”. The company, soon to be renamed Space Beers Adventures, came out of a meeting Schutte had with screenwriter Philip M. Howe at the Cannes Film Festival…

Schutte reveals, “He [Howe] was shopping his film ideas around on a big, letter-sized flyers but you have to fold them to take them with you, so it’s not really an ideal way to get people interested in your film ideas. So we joked about it and thought ‘well, maybe we should just print your film synopsis on the back of a beer bottle.

”Everybody wants a beer; so that’s where it all started. It’s kind of escalated from that point on and we found our sci-fi universe in there and we have been working on that ever since.”

Schutte’s company is currently developing a live action short and a ‘Space Beers’ feature film; an alien abduction movie where beer plays a big part! He explains, “But we are just getting started. After that we are looking into other spin-offs.

”We have been working on this universe for two years and we have some ideas to spin it off into other media, outlets and other things. It can be animation, TV, a card game, you name it. We are really building on the brand – we introduced things like beers – but the main focus is the live action film.”

Yet, despite the relative levity of the company name and sci-fi projects Schutte is deadly serious about business and technology. As Space Beers is based in Amsterdam he is a habitual visitor to IBC. “Because I have a technical background I’m always keen to know what is going on. I like to know what the new developments are in…