Alastor Gwen

Alastor Gwen is a fictional character played by H. Fritz Bishop in the 2018 film, Grim.

Alastor is the director of the documentary crew, co-owning Lead Buoy Productions with Ira Foster. He employs both Bertram Momberquette, Jr. and Ashley Cormier through Prestige Audio Rentals.

Development and Casting
The character of Alastor was created by Fritz Bishop in his initial draft of a script for Grim, originally referred to as "The Director" and initially conceived as an intellectual, albeit pretentious foil to Gordie. Throughout the course of revisions, Fritz decided to removes all traces of intelligence in the character and instead made him more volatile, desperate, and pathetic.

The character was written specifically to be portrayed by Fritz, who wore glasses, shaved his face, and grew his hair to distinguish the character from Bigsby. Fritz chose the surname "Gwen" as it was the maiden name of his grandmother, noting that "Daniel Gwen" was a frequent pseudonym he used as a teenager.

The Hawaiian style shirt that Alastor wears was a gift to Fritz from Tanner Leudy, who portrayed Jamie in the film.

Alastor maintains an amicable, yet highly volatile, friendship with Gordie, more so than any other iteration of the character.

Fritz wrote multiple scenes where Alastor takes over audio recording for the documentary crew despite having never operated the equipment or recorded audio himself, learning how to use both the sound mixer and boom mic on set before filming the scenes.

The name of the production company which the character co-owns, "Leady Buoy Productions", was created by Fritz and Kenzie Cameron.

Appearances
Grim (2018)