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Mark Staubach and Randall “RT” Thorne directing Summer Paradise together

AUTHOR: Dominika | 8. March 2012 | no comments

In the last couple of days, there was a huge confussion about who exactly is the director of the music video for Summer Paradise, that the guys recently recorded in Barbados. First, we had some news indirectly from David, saying the director is Mark Staubach (who previously worked with Simple Plan on Astronaut, Can’t Keep My Hands Off You and also the first version of Summer Paradise).

However, just a little after that, it was announced on Randall “RT” Thorne‘s (the former director of Save You) Twitter page that he is in fact the director of Summer Paradise. So naturally we took the first news about Staubach as a mistake and started praising Thorne as the only director.

But to make things a little bit more complicated, but probably also a bit more clear, yesterday Thorne tweeted a message from which it’s now certain that Mark Staubach and Randall “RT” Thorne are indeed working on Summer Paradise together! Now let’s just hope the line-up of the directors won’t change much again. :)

Randall “RT” Thorne directing Summer Paradise

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. March 2012 | no comments


Yesterday, I posted here about the fact that Mark Staubach was supposed to be the director of the music video for Summer Paradise – but it seems like this information is not accurate at all. In fact, the director of Simple Plan’s new music video is Randall “RT” Thorne, who has previously directed for example the music video for Save You by Simple Plan.

RT confirmed this today on his official Twitter page, where he mentioned that the “early morning shooting with Simple Plan has been beautiful in Barbados.”

More photos from the set of “Summer Paradise” music video

AUTHOR: Dominika | 6. March 2012 | no comments

Today, the guys are starting their last day of recording a new music video for their song Summer Paradise and you can now check out these brand new pictures from the set in Barbados, where the shooting takes place. This time around you can spot Pierre, Jeff and even Chuck on the pictures. Do you think you can already tell from the photos what the concept of the video is going to be about? :)

Mark Staubach directing Summer Paradise… again!

AUTHOR: Dominika | 5. March 2012 | 2 comments


Just a few days ago, one of SimplePlan.cz’s most loyal visitors – Janie – talked to David, who spilled the beans about the new music video for Summer Paradise – apparently the music video that the guys are currently shooting in Barbados will be directed by none other than Mark Staubach.

So far, Mark has directed all the music videos from Get Your Heart On! (except for Jet Lag, which was directed by Frank Borin) – including the first version of Summer Paradise that he recorded during Simple Plan’s Australian tour.

Before Astronaut, Can’t Keep My Hands Off You and Summer Paradise, Mark Staubach was for example the one behind the music videos for Billionaire by Travie MyCoy and Bruno Mars.