{"id":2442,"date":"2005-12-27T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-27T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/12\/white-noise-apocalypto-the-vancouver-angle\/"},"modified":"2005-12-27T15:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-27T15:54:00","slug":"white-noise-apocalypto-the-vancouver-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2005\/12\/white-noise-apocalypto-the-vancouver-angle.html","title":{"rendered":"White Noise, Apocalypto — the Vancouver angle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Today marks the end of our traditional four-day Christmas holiday weekend, and despite all the free time, I\u2019m still catching up on my newspaper reading.<\/p>\n

For example, I recently read Lynne McNamara\u2019s column<\/a> from Saturday\u2019s Vancouver Sun<\/i>, in which she announces that local outfit Brightlight Pictures<\/a> has given the green light to White Noise 2: The Light<\/i> \u2014 and that\u2019s a lot of light, no? The film is a sequel to White Noise<\/a><\/i> (my review<\/a>), a surprisingly scary horror film that was one of this year\u2019s earliest modest hits. Reports McNamara:<\/p>\n

Patrick Lussier is directing the script written by Matt Venne. The original starred Michael Keaton; the sequel has not yet been cast.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the story of a man who\u2019s brought back to life after he and his family are murdered. After his own personal near death experience, he undergoes a transformation that allows him to see people who are on the verge of death. Trying to save their lives, he realizes that a price must be paid for trying to change the natural order of things.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FWIW, Brightlight was also responsible for Alone in the Dark<\/a><\/i>, which is easily one of the trashiest movies I\u2019ve ever seen \u2014 but the heckling audience with which my wife and I saw the film also made it one of the more entertaining moviegoing experiences of recent memory. Then again, as I commented<\/a> at the time: \u201cIs THIS what has become of indigenous Vancouver filmmaking? If so, I weep.\u201d<\/p>\n

Further down in her column, McNamara also profiles the cinematographer who shot the recent teaser<\/a> for Mel Gibson\u2019s Apocalypto<\/a><\/i>:<\/p>\n

The trailer was shot in Mexico last September by cinematographer Don McCuaig, who began his career here back in the 1970s at BCTV, when then-producer Alan Clapp gave him the opportunity to shoot news stories for the station.<\/p>\n

McCuaig, originally from Ontario, now lives in Los Angeles, but keeps a home in Vancouver and makes frequent visits between his film work and acting as a governor for the Television Academy in L.A., which sponsors the annual Emmy Awards. \u201cImagine that, hey,\u201d said McCuaig this week in Vancouver \u2014 \u201ca little guy from Cornwall, Ontario.\u201d . . .<\/p>\n

The Gibson project came out of the blue last August when McCuaig was visiting Vancouver. He got a call from fellow cinematographer, Academy Award-winning Dean Semler (Dances With Wolves<\/i>) who\u2019s shooting Apocalypto<\/i> for Gibson, asking if he was available to shoot the trailer.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was all happenstance,\u201d says a humble McCuaig, \u201csomebody wasn\u2019t available and I happened to be.\u201d<\/p>\n

He headed back to L.A. and within a few days, met Gibson and flew to Mexico.<\/p>\n

They arrived and immediately scouted jungle locations in Yucatan and met up with their Mexican support team.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was very hot and muggy, but quite refreshing in its own way,\u201d says McCuaig, who spent six days in total shooting the trailer after doing prep and some of the shots in Mexico City.<\/p>\n

As for Gibson, McCuaig was very impressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI found him very committed, very good at in-camera effects. He has worked with some very talented directors during his career as an actor and obviously paid attention. He\u2019s an incredibly enthusiastic person \u2014 we had some very long days, and the crew was won over when at the end of the first long day he told them how great they were and that they ranked with the best in the world. That\u2019s the kind of guy he is.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a great guy to work for \u2014 he\u2019s a committed filmmaker and a pleasure to be around, but you have to understand that you have to work very hard and you have to run to keep up with him, he\u2019s everywhere,\u201d laughs McCuaig.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So \u2026 does this mean it\u2019s possible that none of the footage in the teaser will be used in the actual movie?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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