Jon Fletcher has wrapped production on The Dosage Makes the Poison, an experimental feature he wrote, directed, produced and headlined after challenging himself on Aug. 1 to create a film “from nothing” in 50 days and submit it to Sundance. Principal photography ran for seven days, with Fletcher documenting development and the shoot in real time for followers as momentum built around the micro-schedule goal.
Materials circulated after the wrap describe a contained character drama about two longtime friends whose overnight reckoning veers from intervention to existential interrogation. Recent listings indicate Fletcher plays the lead, with voice roles for Jeremy Landon Hays and Jason Faust, and note that the project was made inside the self-imposed 50-day window.
The production leaned on a compact crew and cross-department collaboration. Beth Riesgraf served as cinematographer and produces alongside Fletcher; editors Brian Gonosey and Lana Wolverton are attached for post. An update shared around the wrap included a brief statement from Fletcher reflecting on the sprint and its sleep-deprived grind, framing the process as proof that a feature can be willed into existence with limited resources if the scope matches the schedule.
Backers on the project include executive producers Jeremy Landon Hays, Louis Pannullo and Hunter G. Davis, according to production notes distributed with the wrap announcement. While festival outcomes remain uncertain until programming decisions arrive, Fletcher’s social posts state the film has been formally submitted, aligning the timeline with fall post-production and winter selection windows.
The title echoes a classic toxicology maxim and doubles as a thematic cue for a story about thresholds—how much pressure, despair or loyalty a person can absorb before choices turn harmful. In keeping with the experiment’s public-facing ethos, updates have highlighted the film’s DIY mechanics, from accelerated writing to overnight location pivots, as the team looks to translate the project’s online following into early-audience interest once a release path is set.
