Here’s another behind the scenes story. This one is from the last day of principal photography in May 2007, and the moral of the story is that there really are people in this world with the hero mentality.
We were shooting the first chase scene of the movie where our main characters begin to butt heads, but that gets put on hold so they can save the day. They chase a motorcycle riding criminal who steals from another principal character we get to know better later on. It was shot in downtown Baltimore, on a Friday, during the day. Not exactly a secluded setting. The cops never tried stopping us, but I guess they thought we were part of the crew shooting the tv show The Wire a few blocks away. Thanks big time production! While the cops gave us no trouble, a regular citizen made one take quite interesting.
During this shot, the motorcyclist (played by Chris Beatty) would steal the woman’s purse, turn the corner, go up an alley, then turn around to reset. The guy in the car must not have seen what we were up to because when he saw the purse “stolen”, he took off after the bike! When Chris tried to turn around, the guy blocked him in with his car and yelled “HAND OVER THE PURSE!” While Chris was taken aback, our AD Matt Holder was sprinting up the alley frantically screaming “IT’S A MOVIE! IT’S!… A!….MOVIE!!!” The hero was unconvinced and we had to show him the camera and production truck before he finally stood down! If we had the time we should’ve interviewed him.
Later on in the film you’ll notice a different bike rider, but in the script it’s supposed to be the same rider. We must’ve lost Chris’ contact info and couldn’t get a hold of him, and wound up using someone else. Sorry!
In other news…
I’m compiling a list of movie reviewers who we’ll send a DVD. I doubt any will top the great review from Dan Frazier of Comic Hero News, but it helps to get some more quotes for our website. Is there any sci fi/comic/action movie reviewer that you often read? What’s their website? We’d like to get those kinds of reviews since they interact more with our target audience.
Until next time!
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