Maple Ridge BC

Philip Webb — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:15:49 +0000

Hey there – we’ve actually ended up shooting the first of our current slate of movies (Red Torrent) in Maple Ridge BC – I hadn’t been here before but now I’m all too familiar with the place – the main thing i know about it is that it’s a long way from home! We’re approaching the end of the first shoot and it’s been hectic – it’s tough to make movies in 10 days! Our cast have been brilliant – Shawn Roberts, Sara Canning, PJ Prinsloo and Levi James are our group of heroes and our baddie is played by Leslie Hope (from 24). We’ve had lots of special effects to contend with which take ages to set up. Also, the weather has been against us from the start. You’d hope that August in the Vancouver area would provide a little sun but we had 3 days of rain last week – the horrible BC type of rain which is relentless and depressing! I guess that’s what you get for attempting to shoot a movie in the rainforest! You might think that rain isn’t the end of the world but the story is about an evil doer (Leslie Hope) who is showering the country with chemical rain so we need to control when the damn rain happens.

Anyway, enough of that – we start shooting ‘Death Amongst Friends’ very shortly and we’re lucky enough to have another great cast lined up for this one too. We have Nicholle Tom (The Nanny), David Millbern, William B Davies (X Files), Holly Dignard, Nelson Wong (Kenny Kwan from the Strachey Mysteries which we shot last year), Olivia Cheng, Ben Ayres, Benjamin Arthur and last but by no means least the fantastic and amazing Margot Kidder (Lois Lane, yes THE Lois Lane) – Margot joined us last year for the Strachey Mystery ‘On The Other Hand Death’ and blew us all away with her talent and her professionalism so it was a no brainer to have her back to do a role on this show. She’s Claudia Brecher who is a real nasty piece of work and we can’t wait to see how she plays it.

Well, that’s all for now – take care, Philip

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