Remember that TV pilot I was 2nd Assistant Director on in the spring? We had a great time. Last night Michael Daingerfield and company gave a screening for cast and crew of Daingerfield at the VFS theatre.

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More boiling on Wicker Man today. My brain and skin are cooked. The feel around set is that people know they're involved in something that might be pretty good. Nick cage is "on". Neat working on stuff you know a lot of folks will see.

Today we were in Langley and having quiet was a bit of a nightmare. We were situated between two airports, Langley and Abbottsford, and small planes were flying overhead constantly. When it was planes it was trains blowing their horns or the sewage truck draining the honeywagon firing up his engine in the middle of a shot. There was even a hot air balloon floating overhead near wrap firing his gas to stay in the air. Argh! But, we got everything we needed.

I'm off to Bordertown and Islandtown with "B camera" tomorrow for some exterior pick-ups. I'll bang off some shots of Bordertown with my Canon for a giggle while I'm there. Then I'm back in Langley to shoot until at least 1:00 am.

And for James asking about cast on the flick:
From IMDb Pro - Leelee Sobieski and Ellen Burstyn are joining Nicolas Cage in Neil LaBute's indie The Wicker Man, produced by Millenium Films, Equity Pictures and Emmett/Furla Films. A remake of a 1973 British horror film, Wicker Man centers on a police officer (Cage) who is investigating the disappearance of a girl in a small cultlike community. Sobieski plays a barmaid who is Cage's confidant. Burstyn plays the head of the cult. The film is shooting in Vancouver.

I'm not sure that's accurate. I have yet to see or hear any noise about Leelee Sobieski. She is here in town on Uwe Boll's Dungeon Seige, so who knows.

Cough... gag! More Wicker Man. I didn't realize there was so much dust in Maple Ridge. We finished at Bordertown today. I stood there with the tumble weeds for the past two days. So dry... I'm coated in grime. I smell like a ball's nutsack. I'm off to shower to hopefully blow the stink off me before sleeping really quickly to start another day in the hot sun with a pretty orange vest on screaming into the radio and being nearly run over by cast and crew shuttles. Today we worked with Nick Cage and Molly Parker. Kate Beahan showed up for her wardrobe fitting as well as hair and make-up tests. And tomorrow we'll see Frances Conroy aka Ruth Fisher from one of our faourite shows, Six Feet Under (<---- beware fans there be spoilers here arrrrr).

Off to Maple Ridge for 6 more days of Wicker Man... Still commuting, just the other way now. LOL!

Hey Ted W,
I tried to email you in response to your note from this morning, but the email bounced back as 'undeliverable'. To answer, no I have not yet sent in a résumé to X-Men 3's production office. Have you sent one and heard nothing back? They have just gone 'to camera' as of yesterday so if you haven't sent one, now's the time. Here's their info from the BC Film List at ReelWest.com:

X-MEN 3
X3 Canada Productions Ltd.
Prod: Lauren Shuler Donner,
Ralph Winter
Co-Prod: Ross Fanger
Director: Matthew Vaughn
PM: Stewart Bethune
PC: Jena Niquidet
LM: Ann Goobie
ALM: Paul Giordano
PD: Ed Verreaux
Publicist: Gloria Davies
Casting: Coreen Mayrs,
Heike Brandstatter
Cast: Hugh Jackman,
Patrick Stewart, Halle Berry
Sched: Aug 2 - Dec 15/05
3500 Cornett Rd., Bldg. E
Vancouver, BC V5H 2M5
453-4900 fax: 453-4901

Fax your résumé C/O Locations Department ATTN: Paul Giordano who is the ALM (Assistant Locations Manager) on the show. Good Luck! We might see you on the show. It's going to be a biggy.