More radio days, and the Captain investigates...
Today was a crazy day with too much to do between sunset and sundown.
MB was set to direct the opening monologue delivered by Simon Yam, as rebel leader Lompoc.
The interior of the radio station where this was meant to take pl...Read more
Radio days and kung fu fighting
It was a couple of days ago that I realised that we had been focussing on so much of the drama, gunplay and car stunts of 'Blood Bond', we were in danger of neglecting the martial arts action aspect. As you all know, 'kung fu' is my middle name. (Actually, its ...Read more
Rumble in the jungle (part two)
Michael and the team were back in the woods at daybreak, to continue the scene where our lead character, John Tremayne, gets to show his stuff as a former Special Forces operative. MB and the team were whistling through the shots and there was a great energy on the set.
Simon Yam : Rebel Hero
I guess the French New Wave catches up with all directors eventually. It certainly seemed to for our revered helmer Michael Biehn today, who turned up in a grey sweater and white scarf. Very Truffaut. (The reality is that the morning air was cold and this was all he could f...Read more
Rumble in the jungle (part one)
As regular readers of the 'Blood Bond' blog will know (have you nothing better to do?), we were prevented, by bureauracy, from beginning our 'Rambo'-esque jungle action sequence on the appointed day. Undeterred, we badgered the relevant division of the Nanhai forestry division, and were finally given permission to shoot on our preferred stretch of woodland.
The local park rangers imposed very strict restrictions: no smoking ...Read more
The Blood Bond Casting Call
For all you AnD members, friends and fans who have been following these manic missives, now you can actually be on camera in 'The Blood Bond'!
Between the 11th and 14th of November, we are shooting a party scene here at Ace Studios, and we need a few larger than life perso...Read more
Sunday in Hong Kong, plus funny photos continued...
Our night shoot in the woods having wrapped, myself, Michael Biehn, Phoenix and various others all bundled into a van to take us to the border, and into Hong Kong. For several of the team, this was a visa run, for DP Ross Clarkson and myself, a welcome chance to come back and see our families for a day.
Phoe fell asleep lying on me. As we crossed Tsing Ma bridge, I looked down at her dreaming away, and thought 'what would...Read more
If you go down to the woods tonight...
Halloween, and we schedule our first night shoot, and our first scenes with the mighty Kong Sifu, who plays Ding the gunrunner in 'Blood Bond'. The setting is a wooded area down by a reservoir. For the first time, we invest in a couple of cherry pic...Read more
Death in stone, drama on the highway.
Today we returned to the Stone House, a location we established earlier in the film as the setting for the brutal execution of a Durmese soldier. Previously we sho...Read more
No rumble in the jungle!
We all work up this morning thinking we were going to be shooting two days of Rambo-style action in a near-by 'rainforest' area. I was having breakfast at the Fontainebleu with director/star Michael Biehn, star Simon Yam and co-producer Seth Scher when we got word that our production had hit its first major roadblock. The permits needed to shoot in the area we intended had not gone through as planned, and we would have to reschedule those scenes.<...Read more