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17 - 10 - 09 : The Blood Bond Saga (part 12)
Monday, Oct 19, 2009 9:23PM / Standard Entry / Members only
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A funny thing happened on the road to Purma...

Making action movies tends to be a serious business. These scenes involve physical action sequences that are intensely demanding and potentially dangerous, and this business should not be taken lightly.

Having said that, I can't remember laughing as often or as hard as I have with Michael Biehn and the rest of our 'Blood Bond' family.

Here are some fun memories from the story so far.

Our associate producer, Oliver Williams, is a trained actor with years of experience to bring to bear on our project. He is working with our 3rd AD, Seventeen Xie. I did ask if he was the 17th of his father's children, but this turned out (disappointingly) not to be the case.

Despite their different upbringings, they both had the same reaction to MB's description of our car chase scene:

Funnily enough, DP Ross Clarkson and action director Ken Yip had opposite reactions to the exact same information:

Since we started pre-production, I've been getting a persistent tight pain in my left trapezius (I think that's what its called). I've instructed Phoenix to attack me without mercy (Kato style) to give me an elbow massage with all her kung fu might.

Around the studio, everyone has a cell phone or two, a walkie-talkie and sometimes even a Blackberry as well. Its got so bad, our director even phoned our action director from two feet away.

For a scene set in a rural area, Michael asked that prop department provide some 'hoes'. Phonetically, this lent itself to some confusion, but our great props master, Li Sifu, was happy to comply.

For all of you who wish to know what a real hoe looks like:

Our overworked costume department constantly delivers fresh and amusing images. Some of our antagonistic rebel soldiers wear black berets, and a specific member of the wardrobe team has become our beret wrangler:

Actresses know who has them in focus (or out) and who has their best side (or not), and that's the Director of Photography. Our lovely leading lady Phoenix teases our gruff Aussie DP Ross Clarkson unmercifully, constantly jumping on his lap. Or risking life and limb by having him sit on hers...

I'll post more fun photos as the film progresses. (Presuming that we'll have any fun after production itself begins!)

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rottendoubt
posted on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 11:21AM [Report]

hehehe, is that the pimp then? =D
JRS
posted on Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 9:10AM [Report]

That's funny!
Nick La
posted on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 11:06PM [Report]

nice!
Flagday
posted on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 10:04PM [Report]

I think Ross is getting Christmas in October.
Flagday
posted on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 10:03PM [Report]

It could be from that time immemorial cause....stress. And if there is any relief to be had this would have to be one you could only wish you could bottle up and sell on the free market. You`d be a billionaire.
Flagday
posted on Monday, Oct 19, 2009 10:01PM [Report]

I automatically thought Ross: Are they f-ing kidding? and Ken: I like challenges but sheeat. I`m sure the next capture would have been....alright let`s get to work because this is going to take some creativity.

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British-born Bey Logan began his professional career as a magazine writer and editor, editing the martial arts magazine Combat for five years before launching the action film publication Impact...
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British-born Bey Logan began his professional career as a magazine writer and editor, editing the martial arts magazine Combat for five years before launching the action film publication Impact. A long-time Hong Kong cinema aficionado, he had his first hands on experience of the industry when he line produced the film Guns And Roses, which was shot on location in the UK and Paris.

Bey later relocated to Hong Kong, where he wrote the screenplays for the films ‘White Tiger’ and ‘Ballistic Kiss’. During the same period, he authored ‘Hong Kong Action Cinema’, a narrative history of the genre, and made his martial arts movie debut as a kung fu fighting bad guy in the Yuen Biao/Donnie Yen vehicle Circus Kids.

In 1998, he joined the Media Asia film company, where he wrote and co-produced two documentaries, ‘Jackie Chan: My Story’ and ‘Jackie Chan: My Stunts’. He went on to write the English dialogue scenes for the film ‘Gen-X Cops’, and was a co-writer on its sequel, ‘Gen-Y Cops’.

In 2001, Bey joined the Emperor Multimedia Group, where he wrote the script for the US$40m Jackie Chan vehicle ‘The Medallion’ and co-produced the action comedy ‘The Twins Effect’.

In 2003, Bey formed his own production company, Shankara Productions, in partnership with actress Maggie Q. He was also engaged to serve as Hong Kong representative for the international sales agency Arclight Films, and oversaw the distribution of several features, including Jackie Chan’s ‘New Police Story’. As a sideline, Bey provided commentaries and other bonus features for the Asian films released on the UK’s Hong Kong Legends label.

Bey has also made occasional acting appearances in Hong Kong television and films, most memorably in Donnie Yen’s Fist Of Fury series and Dante Lam’s Naked Ambition, and has been the subject of several TV documentaries, including Made In Hong Kong and Six Degrees Of Separation.

In 2006, he co-produced the US$5m Hong Kong action thriller ‘Dragon Squad’, starring Michael Biehn, Sammo Hung and Maggie Q.

On the 1st of October, 2005, Bey joined the Weinstein Company as Vice-president of Asian Acquisitions and Co-production.

Bey lives and works in Hong Kong, practices Hung Kuen kung fu and Chen Tai Chi and has three sons, Ryan, Calvin and Kyle.
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