Five to Stay Alive

Here's our fifth (and presumably last) rounds of pics from the awesome and alluring Libby Csulic.

Nat Cassidy looks on as Sarah-Doe decides she wants to be flipped so Jeff Wills helps her. And this is of course the time she wonked her knee. Oof.

You'd think this was the actor massage line but this is just Maduka buttoning up Sarah-Doe and telling her she's too busty to tie it all up. Jeff Wills wonders why he doesn't get leather straps on his costume. Next movie, Jeff, next movie...

Jeff Wills, Maduka Steady, and Sarah-Doe Osborne either putting on or taking off her armor.

Joe Chapman is a badass. 

Our crane didn't make it in that day so I had to be the robo-monster's Point-of-View camera on top of a ladder.

Andrew Bellware has lost oxygen standing up there and Maduka Steady contemplates helping me down or just taking over the shoot himself.

In deep background is Joe Chapman, Sarah-Doe Osborne gets slated by Henry Maduka Steady, Andrew Bellware is shooting with Jiah Peck behind him -- we're going to be doing 360's with this dialog. Or wait, maybe the 360's happened a few shots later...

Henry Maduka Steady being waaaaaay too handsome to just be on slate, don't you agree?

Maduka Steady takes over directing duties as Drew goes and hides in the men's bathroom to read Maxim Magazines from 2008.

Quattro Libya

Joe centers up a group of lean and mean mercs. 

Joe Chapman is actually like this all the time. You should see when he gets into costume.

There is no having fun on set! Virginia Logan and Sara-Doe Osborne disobeying our most basic rules.

Proving that the camera operator's reflection won't happen in her goggles, Juanita looks with curiosity at the camera op. Hey -- what's that blue milk crate in the background? That's not the milk crate we use for lights is it? Not right in the middle of the shot? Again? Well you know us, we call that just a little victory for G&E.

Andrew Bellware shooting Virginia Logan. OK, this is kind of funny. Maduka is actually actively wrapping lights because this was the martini shot. I mean, he was taking away lights I was using and turning on work lights. It was a very efficient wrap which I just shot around. Him just walking by with a crate of instruments which had been in the background of the shot just moments before, and walking through our shot, amused me immensely. It may have been the opium kicking in though. I'm not sure. It still amuses me. So maybe it was some dynamite stuff.

When we do the gritty urban version of this movie, Virginia Logan will look like this.

This is my new band. Virginia "Heartbreaker" Logan on guitars, Nat "Crazyman" Cassidy on drums, and Sara-Doe "Black Widow" Osborne on bass and keys. These guys rock.

The apple box Jeff Wills is sitting on was obtained for our use by Robin Kurtz who is off doing some sort of "play". Whatever that is.  

My crew is so damn good looking I just don't know what to do with them. I mean, keep the ladies away, that's for sure. That's Jiah Peck and Joe Chapman.

This shot, oddly, came about naturally and organically. And it probably had something to do with the booze shaker in the foreground there. That's Andrew Bellware, Joe Chapman, Henry Maduka Steady all of whom know what they're looking at. Or maybe we're just being like ZZTop...

Libby Trois

Joe Chapman, priorities straight, unloads the van at the beginning of the day.

What is it with these actors who look good no matter how wide angle the lens is? Sigh. Here's Joe Chapman being unnecessarily handsome again.

Juanita Arias gets her war face on.

Is this the same picture? I have no idea. Juanita Arias. 

Juanita Arias is getting ready to mess up some robots. 

The glamorous Virginia Logan, the sexy Tom Rowen, the adorable Juanita Arias.

Here Andrew Bellware follows Virginia Logan around like a remora follows a shark. Wait. No, that's not it at all. Did I tell you that the only part of "Dancing in the Rain" that Virginia does not like is the dream ballet part? That's just so wrong... 

Sarah-Doe Osborne and Jeff Wills practice their moves for the big dance number which opens the second act. It's called "Androids in Love" and has a beautiful dream ballet sequence.

This is probably the point at which I brought up Bretton Woods. Nobody had any idea what I was saying and they all walked away from me slowly like they were afraid to make any sudden movements.

Andrew Bellware, Tom Rowen, Joe Chapman.

Oh good, I was worried we hadn't gotten the Vincent D'Onofrio from Full Metal Jacket look from me. That's Jeff Wills, Sarah-Doe Osborne, Andrew Bellware, and the back of Joe Chapman's head.

From Libby part 2

Nat Cassidy's new Facebook/dating site profile picture.

How do you photograph Jeff Wills badly? Here he is on some enormous fisheye lens and the guy still looks good.

That's Joe Chapman in the background and Tom Rowen in the foreground.

 I think this set is what we were calling the "Corridor B interlock" but honestly the set's continuity got a bit messed up.

Jiah Peck waits for someone to open the door to the airlock.

Tom Rowen does his Platoon imitation. Yes, that's my camera he has in his left hand. I'm not telling my Willem DaFoe story though.

Virginia Logan, Jeff Wills, Juanita Arias. See? Everyone has red on them. That's intentional.

Wow, that's so not a good profile of me.

Here's the set we shot on. That pad was for the rehearsal of the flip we did on Sunday. The shop is great to shoot in because we have a lot of room. If only it weren't so filthy dirty! ;-)

Here is... well gosh, I don't actually know what's going on here. That must be me (Andrew Bellware) in the center. I have big anime robo-feet. The foreground is Jiah Peck. Looks like I'm directing Joe Chapman.

I suppose this should be my new Facebook picture.

Here are more pictures from the set that Libby took with her very sweet Canon camera.

Pictures from the set (part 1)

The awesome Libby Csulik sent us these pictures from the weekend of shooting.

Jiah Peck, cruelly assigned the task of boom operator.

If Tom Rowen played guitar, his mojo would be invincible. 

Joe Chapman in what we might call a classic Joe Chapman pose.

The pretty Jeff Wills looks far too nice here to be the deep, dark, evil schemer he really is (in the movie.)

Juanita Arias looks way too awesome in the goggles. I am always looking at those things to try to ensure that you can't see me and the camera in them.

Here's Nat Cassidy, apparently he's that kid you know from Junior High... remember that kid? And some pasty guy in a tent is behind him.

I... I don't know what I'm doing to Joe Chapman here. Maybe I'm just pretending I have a gun too.

Tom Rowen and Juanita Arias.

This is Jiah after the insanity set in. He just thinks he's happy to be on a smoke-filled set in the middle of 'Jersey.

That's Nat Cassidy's nose, Andrew Bellware making some sort of point (although it might just be the drink talking), Virginia Logan, Tom Rowen, Juanita Arias, and Jeff Wills.

1101 Day 5

Still no producer. And it took us half our day to shoot the stuff we didn't shoot the previous day. But we wrapped folks out on the 8:37pm train (when we had a noon call time and a 45-minute lunch) so even though I beat the heck out of my knees, we're in pretty good shape.

Virginia Logan, Joe Chapman, Sarah-Doe Osborne, and Jeff Wills face a monster of a robot.

Wow, we made it over the half-way mark today. I'm as tired as a marmot. We shot a lot of mutherjumpin' pages yo.

Jeff Wills told us to get this shot because it was "the shot missing from Doom". And he was right. But we do have the shot. That's missing from the movie version of Doom.

Wow. Did I mention that I'm tired? I bet everyone else is too.

I... I honestly don't know what's going on here.

We shot 106 different takes today. I suspect that's about 90 setups. It's hard to tell what a "setup" is when you're zooming in and out and handheld and changing your focal length all the time. I suppose you could pretend it's about 100 setups. Yes, let's do. Pretend.

Virginia Logan double-fisting her firepower. 

Making our lives easier was Jiah Peck, who helped out on pretty much everything including boom.

Jeff Wills looking somewhat pathetic while Juanita Arias looks on either forlornly or bored, it's hard to say which.

I don't have any stills of this (because it was an action scene) but Sarah-Doe Osborne flips Juanita Arias in a kind of awesome way. That's going to work out just great for us. Jeff Wills fight directed and Maduka Steady and Virginia Logan assisted.

Virginia Logan rocking the BFG.

Uh oh. I just realized I have about 15lbs of leftover Chinese food. I wonder if my dad will eat it for lunch this week?

I don't know what's going on here but I suspect it's a dirty joke. That's the side of Joe Chapman's head, Virginia Logan, the lovely and talented Libby Csulik, and the back of Sarah-Doe Osborne's well-coiffed head.