The following is a brief email, that a spy of mine (MR. MATT) received from a friend who was on the set of THE CORRUPTERS starring Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg. Hmmm, seems Mr. "I have a KNB prosthetic in my pants" is moving closer and closer to Mr Woo. First it's THE BIG HIT which was produced by John Woo, and now he's alongside Woo's Mr Cool. BTW I'm getting real solid word on THE BIG HIT, perhaps it's something special. Anyway, here's the latest...
(...) and I were in Toronto yesterday on a real movie set. Did I ever tell you about (...)'s (relative) that is a Director of Photography? He has been a camera operator in the past, but was recently promoted and now actually "controls" all the aspects of filming the action. Movies that he worked in that I can think of off the top of my head were: 12 Monkeys, Jacob's Ladder, G.I. Jane, The Fisher King, The Last Boyscout, Nothing But Trouble, etc... He's been in the industry for 30 years, so he has done lots of them, but I can't remember everything. Anyway, he was in Toronto working on this movie called "The Corrupters" with Chow Yun-Fat and Mark Wahlberg. He was working with the 2nd unit yesterday and they were doing what, in the film, will be a 9 block long car chase with lots of shooting and crashes. It was pretty amazing -- in fact I was blown away by the whole thing. They were doing a shot where a guy leaning out his window shooting at a car following them gets rammed into a van that is backing up and smushed. It was so cool how they did all these different shots and then finally did it with a dummy and really rammed the van and the dummy got obliterated.
