Kern County: body double to the world!
Actors have stunt doubles but what happens when you want to film that stunt double in New Finland but you don't want to spend that New Finland money?
Why, you shoot it in Kern County of course! Body double to the world!
We faked an ocean in Waterworld. Doubled for eastern Europe in Van Helsing. We're featured in every other Star Trek knock-off, Sci-fi film.
Just this past weekend the Touchstone/Disney film "Flightplan" did two days of shooting at the Mojave Airport. Starring Jodie Foster, the Flightplan folks needed a large airport in a barren area to double for Goose Bay in Newfoundland, Canada.
Of course they needed a lot of snow and stuff for that, but baaah, Mojave would do.
I got a chance to chat with Charles Schlissel, the executive producer of "Flightplan," who, by the way, has an excellence sense of humor, although I can't quite recall what funny thing he said that caused me to think that. Hmmmm ...
But it was quite fascinating to hear how Schlissel's crew turned the desert surrounding Mojave into a winter wonderland using biodegradable fake snow and reflective white paper. Digital affects are expensive, man. He went all paper mache and DIY on that thing. Check out what he has to say this Thursday in the Word on the Street column inside the Eye on Entertainment tab.
Yeah, I said THURSDAY. To all the Johnny-Come-Lately-No-Read-the-Paper's we've moved the section folks. You get your WOTS a whole day early now. No more pining until Friday. She's there in all her glory every Thursday.
Why, you shoot it in Kern County of course! Body double to the world!
We faked an ocean in Waterworld. Doubled for eastern Europe in Van Helsing. We're featured in every other Star Trek knock-off, Sci-fi film.
Just this past weekend the Touchstone/Disney film "Flightplan" did two days of shooting at the Mojave Airport. Starring Jodie Foster, the Flightplan folks needed a large airport in a barren area to double for Goose Bay in Newfoundland, Canada.
Of course they needed a lot of snow and stuff for that, but baaah, Mojave would do.
I got a chance to chat with Charles Schlissel, the executive producer of "Flightplan," who, by the way, has an excellence sense of humor, although I can't quite recall what funny thing he said that caused me to think that. Hmmmm ...
But it was quite fascinating to hear how Schlissel's crew turned the desert surrounding Mojave into a winter wonderland using biodegradable fake snow and reflective white paper. Digital affects are expensive, man. He went all paper mache and DIY on that thing. Check out what he has to say this Thursday in the Word on the Street column inside the Eye on Entertainment tab.
Yeah, I said THURSDAY. To all the Johnny-Come-Lately-No-Read-the-Paper's we've moved the section folks. You get your WOTS a whole day early now. No more pining until Friday. She's there in all her glory every Thursday.
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