McG,Disneyland, Casting

The last few days have been pretty awesome. We went to Warner Bros. again and met McG (this is what he goes by and is known by, pronounced" Mc GEE), the Director of Charlie's Angels 1 and 2 and We Are Marshall. He is director and executive producer for a show called "Chuck" coming out this fall on NBC. It's about a guy who works for a store like Best Buy and is in the "Geek Squad" by day and turns into James Bond by night. Should be interesting, since it is technically a one hour drama. He was even nice enough to take us onto the set that is being built for it! It looks just like a best buy, except all green instead of all blue. McG is such a great guy, he was really excited to meet us all and get to talk with him. He is also Directing a movie due out next summer which sounds pretty cool. He said that he was just going over the movie with the screen writer for Little Miss Sunshine, who was 2 floors above us! He also showed us Zack Snyder's parking spot. (Director of 300). McG is such a charismatic, witty and clever guy. I learned a lot from him, and it was inspiring to know that someone made it into the biz that didn't go to film school! He went to UC Irvine. He then did a few music videos and somehow met Quentin Tarantino who was his "in" into Hollywood, and helped him get on his feet by getting signed to Direct Charlie's Angels. Anyways, McG is awesome, keep your eye out for him, I'm sure he will be making some great stuff in the next few years.

We went to Warner Bros. and toured the Wardrobe department which was fantastic. Look at the pictures here:

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There were TONS of costumes and clothes of all kinds. This was a small warehouse full of costumes that have been accumulated for 100 years. There were costumes from The Last Samurai, Alexander, and obviously tons of other movies. We got a great behind the scenes tour, it's hard to describe it all, so just check out the pictures!

The next day, we went to Disneyland! 11 of us left at about 7:45 in the morning and drove 25 miles to Anaheim. It was an amazing day, probably the least amount of waiting I've ever done at the park, which was amazing since it was a Friday in the summer. We went on every single main ride at the park except for the Matterhorn which I wasn't too bummed about missing. The new Finding Nemo subs are pretty cool, not amazing, but worth seeing once. I saw the fireworks and Fantasmic for the first time in a lonnnng time, which were both amazing. I have to say, the fireworks I saw yesterday were probably the best I've ever seen in my life. Hands down. Just amazing. I can't even believe they do that every night. I got chills multiple times they were so good. Especially with the synchronization to the music, it just made the whole event spectacular.

Here are some of the pictures I took during the day. I didn't take that many considering most of it I've seen already...

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It was overall a great day, we stayed until abotu 12:30 AM and we were EXTREMELY tired at the end of the day, but hey, we got our money's worth! We all got a well-deserved break.

Back in the film world, we only have one week until we shoot at Warner Brothers! We now have our crews for our Warner Bros. shorts, now we have to cast actors and get everything planned. I have to get a permit for our fight scene and another permit for the prop guns that we need. I actually like being a producer a lot more than I thought I would. I like being in charge of so much! I have to go hire a makeup artist for blood and stuff, and to touch people up in between scenes so they don't have too much shine on their faces. I also have to get a stunt choreographer, and some props for the fight scene, so we can make it look realistic when people get punched and shot.

Today I e-mailed 38 different actors for 4 different roles, and so far about 6 have responded. We are having auditions on Monday and Tuesday, and I'm really excited to get to be a part of the audition process. I can't believe the amount of power we have! Some of these actors have a lot of experience. One of them has been on 24, Cold Case, Reno 911, just to name a few. Obviously not with a huge role or anything, but the experience is great! I can't wait to show you all pictures of the actors when we cast them.

I have an incredible amount of work to do in one week. Our final draft of the script will be done on Monday, and then it's off to get everything ready for shooting this Saturday and Sunday. We will have a read through with our actors for a rehearsal the day before, on Friday. We go back to WB again on thursday to get a tour of the post production labs too, which should be a lot of fun.

Okay I need my one day of sleeping in for this week...hasta luego!