Sarah Thunder's World Travels: London

By: Sarah Thunder

     Thanks for the review for Transformers: the Ride - 3-D, Andrew! I can't wait to check it out! Anyway, we're still here in London. Filming has kind of stalled because of two things. First, because of the Olympics, the entire city was packed, which made it hard to enforce our closed set policy (which explains why I'm not allowed to share any photos here). On top of that, assistant director Barry Hollows had to leave the set when he was offered $20 million to direct the follow-up to his smash hit film Zombie: Genesis, which is titled Zombie: Exodus (watch it here). As it is implied at the end, Barry won't back on the set anytime soon, so another assistant director, Mark Winters, was hired temporarily.

     However, we're shooting the first big action scene for the movie today, so I can't write much right now. I've been practicing parkour along with the other actors for this scene for the last few weeks. Usually, we would have stuntmen do this, but Barry said, before he left to direct Zombie: Exodus, that the actors should do their own stunts. His reasoning is that it makes the movie more believable and that it cuts production costs, even though it sends our insurance through the roof. This may be a weird and unsafe idea, but with Barry Hollows, nothing surprises me anymore.

     Hold on. That's the PA speaking. We're having lunch right at noon, then we start filming immediately after. I really hope jumping off of and on to moving vehicles is easier than it looks. Well, I have to go eat now. Until I write again, happy travels!
     Update by Andrew: Because of the ongoing expansion of the Mustache Maniacs Film Co. website, the design for this travel journal has now changed. Details from our San Diego trip are coming soon.