Back at last...

Well I've been home for a day now and have returned to a very happy family. I'm suffering a tinge of reverse culture shock that I'm sure will evaporate quickly. The oddly different world of Sofia, Bulgaria became my reality after spending 50 days there and when you can just hop on a flight and be back half way around the world in less than a day, the crashing of routines, time zones and languages get a bit mixed up.

Proof of point... I'm sitting here at 5:30AM wide awake and have been up for 2 hours!

I'll sign off this post for a few days until I get a handle on what's next schedule wise. Cutting, of course, I just don't know when.

Thanks for checking in.

Trippin' home

When David and I walked into the business lounge at Munich, the automatic door had not quite opened and we both said simultaneously: Dora!

Dora was on set props and, amongst other things, ran the automatic door in the doctors lab. Thanks Dora! Here she is with that pesky hostage.

Here's the new crop!

I'm posting this from home... an easy flight from Munich with my randomly chosen seat mate Rachael Bilson (from "The OC" - on her way home from Rome shooting Jumpers)... Back to Hollywood at last!

Shoot day #20

Finally done! And with a bang. We shot from 9:30PM and David and I left at around 12:15PM the next day to catch a flight to Munich, then LAX. What a whirlwind. It was definitely not a satisfying exit after working with the crew for 3 weeks and most of the keys for more like 7. I left my apartment for the last time on the way to set.


On the other hand, when I told Riquel that I'd be home a day early, she shrieked with happiness. Cool.

Obviously we picture wrapped any actors that were working with us, namely David, Todd and yours truely (as the hostage).



And, as promised... Upon completion of my directing (at least the production part)... I chopped my pony tail.

Shoot day #19

One day to go! We shot all night again in the doctor's lab... we're getting close.

To show that, we picture wrapped another actor... Tomas - the evil doctor.

And I was greeted to this sight in front of my place yesterday morning.

Shoot day #18

Two days to go! Now I'm counting how many left instead of how many in. I also found out that in fact I can return on Thursday instead of Friday. I won't get back until 7PM or so but at least it's a small slice of Thanksgiving preserved. Riquel was thrilled.

We had a last minute cancelation by an actor who we promptly replaced with Bill Cusak (John and Joan are shooting the sequel to Grosse Pointe Blank in town) and I had his girlfriend, Lafern, sit in the scene as an extra. Serendipity at it's finest.

And we picture wrapped Pollyanna.

Sunday (night) off

Another twised day on nights schedule. I slept most of the day and at 9PM we all got together for one last time. Melissa and Michael are headed back tomorrow and I have 3 more days of shooting and I supposedly have a flight back on Friday.

Here's the gang at dinner.

And a little after dinner fun at "Briliant".

Shoot day #17

I am all out of whack now... Today I'm going to bed at a whopping 9:30AM. At least I'll be heading towards adjusting to Pacific Time a couple of days early.

We were on stage again today and got it all in 12 hours, even though everyone (including me) seemed to be working in slow motion. Working nights, especially when on stage really throws things off. We shot the tent interiors and the final happy "hospital" scene last night and even picked up an extra green screen that I wanted to help set the Iraq location. We also got the firt signs of nearing the end (even though I still have 15% of the film yet to shoot). Melissa, Mike and Michael all picture wrapped.