I just left work for the day, but not before stopping to watch McG direct a scene from Terminator: Salvation. Say what you will about him, but I have only ever seen him be kind, encouraging, and easygoing. And today was no different. They were doing a tricky scene with blue screen work and revolving camera angles, and after each take, McG would shout out “Great! That’s perfect! Exactly what I was looking for.” Even after giving notes and changing things a bit, he still gave his cast and crew positive feedback and encouragement. I could tell that everyone there was wholly invested in the project and really trusted him as a director. The minute he suggested a change or set up a new shot, crew guys jumped in to make it so.
Based on what I observed today, I think this film will be a great success. How could it not be, when the director is a true leader and the cast and crew are as passionate about the project as he is?
I originally had no intention of seeing the film, but I think that now I will, and not just because Christian Bale is the star and it was filmed where I work.
P.S. I also saw Bryce Dallas Howard (The Village, Lady in the Water) driving by. She’s very pretty.
Hello!
I followed the link in your IMDB profile to this site. I’m a raging Terminator Salvation fangirl, and I was wondering if you had any other safe-for-public consumption tidbits about watching TS reshoots.
miniglik
January 15th, 2009
Safe-for-public consumption tidbits? Well, I can tell you what the set looked like, but other than that, there’s nothing I could really tell without getting all spoiler-y. I’ll tell you though, I am now definitely looking forward to seeing the film.
Emily
January 15th, 2009
Yeah, I get why you wouldn’t want to get spoilery. It ALWAYS gets back and employers don’t like that kind of thing.
So, what did the set look like?
miniglik
January 15th, 2009
(Note: I am most definitely going to repost anything you say here on the biggest Terminator forum.)
miniglik
January 15th, 2009
So cool! In somewhat related news (yes, pun intended), I met Ron Howard in DC this week. He was not as pretty as Bryce.
linds
January 23rd, 2009