Los Angeles next week
I’m going to be in LA for Monday through Thursday next week. Travelling all the way there on my own dime from rainy England to meet with a producer about a project I’d love to be involved with. He’s seen all my films now and likes them enough to want to meet face to face. Hell, I think I’d do an awesome job – sci-fi, action, aliens and violence – everything I became a director to do. Obviously can’t say what it is and in all likelihood it won’t work as I know he’s meeting with a bunch of guys who, I’m sure, are just as geeky as me but you can’t pass up the chance to take a swing at these things. I’m going to try and blog and twitter my way through the trip and will tease out more info as I think I can.
Best of luck, Michael!
If that is a heartfelt project of yours, then good luck
Geeks to the power!! I hope it is another action-adventure fantasy movie…
Good luck mate, hope you get it.
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Good luck, Sir.
We need more true fans making genre films rather than corporate hacks. As graphically evidenced by the awfulness of TERMINATOR: REGURGITATION.
You have to fly all the way to Los Angeles for three days? My deepest apologies, sir. Good luck on this project, keep us up to date!
Mr. Bassett: there’s a new and flattering shot of you discussing something with one of your technical guys on the Kane set. It’s posted on the REH forum in the Solomon Kane film thread.
Hi there CP,
Yeah – took a look at that shot. It’s me talking to the VFX supervisor, Gary Beach, in the ‘Great Hall’ set. A pretty huge construction for a film of our budget. The production designer Ricky Eyres did an amazing job delivering it all.
BTW – the question someone posted at the REH forum about what the dangling things were above the set in the wideshot of the market town – I’ll just confirm that they are rain rigs. Just poured down thousands of gallons of freezing water to give me that relentless rain effect. It was miserable for everyone involved.
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Hey, Mr. Bassett! From the height of that thing that “rain” must have been coming down with some force. Must have endeared you to the cast and crew after a days. But great atmosphere for a Solomon Kane film. Reminds me of the look you achieved in “DeathWatch,” a copy of which I am proud to own. Did you notice there is a distribution date for The Netherlands now on IMDb?
Well, the water was like a normal rain depending what nozzle was used. Some guys had thin wetsuits under the costumes and the ordinary casts had a thin plastic raincoat under it. The worst thing was when the water started to leak under it around the neck area, and runing around in it for the rest of the day was a real challenge.
Interesting inside info, JL. Thanks.
Michael was real lucky, as that year the winter was not so hard and cold. Normally at that time we get temperatures here running below -5 up to -15 degrees.
That would be pretty nasty if the water would freeze up on you in a couple of minutes.
At some stages it was really funny when seeing the people running in deep mud that was caused by all that water.
I remember a woman tripped by accident and slammed her face right into it, poor soul hat to put up with all the crap sticking to her for the whole day.
All these things did create some serious grins on most of the people faces, especially if you run a shot with the water pissing down on you and then you hear \”HEY\” we have to do it again and again till it looked right.
That makes you feel pretty crappy so you don\’t even have to pretend this grotesque look needed to create the image of this movie. But looking back now it was real fun and i would not hesitate to go and do it again.
Apart having to get up at 4 am in the morning. hehehe