Small town still capitalizing on a paperclip.

You may have heard about Kyle MacDonald, the blogger who acquired a house for himself and his girlfriend by trading a single red paperclip for something slightly more valuable, and then trading that item for something even more valuable, and so on and so on and so on.

MacDonald reached the end of his quest two years ago when the town of Kipling, Saskatchewan offered him a house in exchange for a guaranteed role in Corbin Bernsen’s next movie. MacDonald is now looking to trade the house again, but Bernsen — who already made good on his promise by giving a role in his latest movie to one of the town’s residents — is coming back for more.

The Globe and Mail reports:

But the town has found itself a friend in Mr. Bernsen, who is set to arrive in Kipling Wednesday to shoot another film, Rust, the story of a priest who returns to his hometown for what Mr. Bernsen calls a “midlife crisis of faith.”

He wrote the script last summer, specifically to be shot in Kipling, two hours south of Regina. The cast and extras will be mostly Kipling residents, and nearly all the shooting will be done there over three weeks next month.

And the film’s backers? Yep, look no farther than Main Street and the farms around Kipling, where residents have pitched in $250,000 to make Rust.

“The red paperclip was a good event, but we thought: ‘What could it lead to next?’ And it seemed the next thing was a movie shoot in Kipling,” said Pat Beaujot, one of the directors of Kipling Film Productions, which is looking after the residents’ quarter-million-dollar investment.

“You have to create your own excitement in a small town.”

Mr. Bernsen said the town has a unique quality that brought him back. He has already satisfied his end of the paperclip bargain, casting resident Nolan Hubbard in an earlier film, but liked the “raw untrained talent” of the would-be actors he saw while auditioning people in Kipling. . . .

That “earlier” film, incidentally, was something called Donna on Demand. It does not appear to be on video yet, which leads me to wonder if the residents of Kipling have thought about finding a distributor for Rust yet.