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Int: of a truck, on a drive to Sullivan….
And with the choice of either waiting for January to start, or recasting…. we push into segment three, Fall. So as we drive and go through the script and figure out what scenes we can shoot without one of the primary characters, while we block out the time to recast, it starts to snow.
The clock is ticking…
The upshot. We aren’t weather dependent for Fall. We can shoot whenever we need to. But there’s always the fear that if we run long, we could wind up with scheduling nightmares that cause us to potentially lose cast. It’s that itch you can never quite scratch. You never feel completely comfortable until it’s all in the can. And the only thing worse, is being in the middle of shooting and thinking “If we lose a cast member we have to throw out all of this footage.”
No doubt about it. On this production, we’ve taken our lumps.
So we push forward, and plan to shoot what we can next weekend with Eric and Rhonda, and a few others. We are Hannibal bound… but not til next weekend.
The bright spot is Mike and I met with Ted Jordan who plays Marcus for segment four, and with that cool smile and absolute confidence he reassures us, he’s in this to the very end. A load off our minds. We need a ringer to bring this whole thing home, and our fourth act has to have a presence that’s as absolutely charming and captivating as the lovely Trinka Crawford. She really is this films center. I try not to gush, but having just finished the second edit of Spring, it’s hard not to admire her talent. And honestly I don’t brag on her enough. She is truly wonderful in the role, just don’t ask her to open any cans.
Ted is the man that’s going to bring this whole thing in for the landing. He has to be Trinka’s bookend. I have absolute faith in him.
And as the ground turns white, and the roads get slick (literally coming millimeters away from a fender bender on the slick roads) all around us is a reminder that we are completely and totally weather dependent for winter. No stress…
Grrrrrrrr
