THE CHIEF’S DECK: Brad Paisley (19 February 2009)

THE CHIEF’S DECK: 4×16: Deadlock (promo photo) (15 February 2009)

GamesRadar+ (Nicki Clyne) February 11, 2009

Interview with Battlestar Galactica’s Cally
By: SFX
Date: February 11, 2009
Source: GamesRadar+

 

Note: This is a snippet of an interview with NICKI CLYNE where she mentions AARON DOUGLAS / CHIEF TYROL. To read the full interview, click HERE.

 

How did you find working with your on-screen husband Aaron “Chief Tyrol” Douglas?

Aaron Douglas and I get along really well, but we definitely have a unique relationship. I mean we’re like family, both because we work together so much, but even in the beginning we had a really good rapport with each other because we both really valued humour. And like we’d joke around about things: I have a younger brother, and it almost felt like that kind of familiarity, us always making fun of each other, but only because we love each other – stuff like that. So yeah, we get along really well; he’s such a ham.

THE CHIEF’S DECK: hey kids (11 February 2009)

THE CHIEF’S DECK: Does Aaron have a Twitter? (09 February 2009)

The Watcher (Michael Angeli) February 6, 2009

Talking about ‘Battlestar Galactica’s’ ‘Blood on the Scales’ with writer Michael Angeli
By: Maureen Ryan
Date: February 6, 2009
Source: The Watcher

 

Note: This is a snippet of an interview with MICHAEL ANGELI where he mentions AARON DOUGLAS / CHIEF TYROL. To read the full interview, click HERE.

 

Was Tyrol disabling the FTL drive to help Adama or so that he would not be separated from his fellow Cylons — or did he do that for both reasons?

Nah, Tyrol wanted to help Adama and his peeps – especially after Kelly (they were close friends before Kelly was jailed and Tyrol realized he was a Cylon) spares his life.

Do you have any stories from the set from the filming of this episode? Did anything go differently on-set than you imagined it would? Any difficulties in shooting the episodes? Anything cool or unexpected happen?

Well, we had a ton of fun with Aaron [Douglas, who plays Tyrol], who spends most of his time in the episode crawling through these air ducts the crew created. As they were being built, we had the crew make the ducts like, really tight. Then I wrote in a scene where Tyrol passes the latrine and has to hold his nose. In rehearsals, we had one of our grips, Ross Newcomb – who wears kilties to work — sitting on the toilet. Shameless toilet humor.

THE BRIDGE (BLOG) – John McFetridge: The Bridge (February 4, 2009)

The Bridge
By: John McFetridge
Date: February 4, 2009
Source: John McFetridge’s Blog

 

Recently at a discussion panel of true crime writers, one of the questions asked was, “Have you ever been threatened by any of the people you’ve written about?”

Most of the writers on the panel had written books about some really dangerous people; serial killers, hitmen, bikers and high ranking organized crime figures.

But the guy who answered the question said, “The only time I’ve ever been scared or threatened was by cops.” The others all agreed. These experienced, award-winning journalists-turned-authors had all at some point been scared by police.

Which brings me to my new job. I’ve been hired as one of the writers on a new CTV cop show, The Bridge. The show is based on a cop who was head of the police union in Toronto, the self-professed, “most powerful cop in the country.” The show was apparently pitched as, “What if Tony Soprano was a cop?” In this case he’s a cop who helps other cops, gets them out of trouble and stands up for them to the brass.

Which could make for some very cool and controversial storylines.

Especially if cops are the scariest people those journalists have ever dealt with.

 

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Comments on this blog entry by John: We start in the writers’ room on February 18th and will write 11 episodes by May. The pilot was filmed last fall and will run as the first two episodes.

Emissary – Press Release

Below is the official press release about the Emissary guest panel at New York Comic Con 2009.

Emissary @ New York Comic Con
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PHILIP MORRIS AND DEKKER DREYER PRESENT NEW SERIES, “EMISSARY”

NEW YORK, NY – February 3rd, 2009 — All those attending New York Comic Con are invited to a special panel presentation of “Emissary” the new series starring Philip Morris. The panel takes place Friday, February 6th at 6pm and will include the first look at Emissary’s teaser footage and a Q&A with the stars.

Emissary is the story of anthropologist Campbell Essex discovering his destiny as the latest in a line of “Emissaries” or peak humans. Constantly pursued by ancient enemies who seek his power, Campbell struggles to overcome his own limitations before it’s too late.

The series, created by Philip Morris and Dekker Dreyer, spans several hundred years and touches on serious issues of what it means to be human while bringing a new level of brutal realism to the sci-fi / fantasy genre.

“As an actor, I have had wonderful experiences in the sci-fi / action-adventure world. With “Emissary”, I get a chance to bring my own sense of expression to this vital genre, as an actor, producer, and writer. I also get the chance to use skills that the audience may not know that I truly possess, like the martial arts. In meeting Dekker Dreyer and collaborating with him, it has all come together, and I’m very grateful. I am excited to bring this to the fans, and hope that they appreciate what we’re doing. Being a comic book geek myself, it’s important to me to honor the fans with this material. We’re a picky bunch, and if they like it, I will be happy.” – Philip Morris, co-creator.

With New York City being the primary backdrop for the first leg of the series, the creative team hopes to craft a rich bed to the action.

“I live in NYC and there are plenty of strange things that happen there every day. We wanted danger to be around every corner. Old buildings, old mysteries… strange people, those things excite me. At its core Emissary is a fantastic story and it’s easy for a show to stretch too far from a believable, grounded universe. Phil and I are both big fans of hiding the extraordinary inside the everyday. Here we have elements of a dark real-world story, but ultimately it’s a hopeful fantasy.” – Dekker Dreyer, co-creator.

The Emissary cast includes Philip Morris (Smallville), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Brian Thompson (X-File, Star Trek: Enterprise) and Emmy nominee Thaao Penghlis with additional cast members Yuri Lowenthal and J LaRose in attendance at the NYCC panel.

The series, produced by Mnemosyne LLC and the Emissary Partners, is scheduled to begin production in late 2009 currently slated for IPTV distribution.

MediaBlvd (Kandyse McClure) January 30, 2009

Kandyse McClure Interview
By: Kenn Gold & Shaun Daily
Date: January 30, 2009
Source: MediaBlvd

 

Note: This is a snippet of an interview with KANDYSE MCCLURE where she mentions AARON DOUGLAS. To read the full interview, click HERE.

SPOILER WARNING: Do not click on the above link to read the full interview if you have not seen all of the S4.5 episodes that have aired so far.

 

Shaun: Do you have an Aaron Douglas story? Everybody I’ve talked to from Battlestar seems to have one.

That’s dangerous! (laughs).

 

Shaun: I see Aaron a lot here in Vegas, he comes here like every weekend.

He loves Vegas. How much time does he spend in Vegas? Well, this might be a bit embarrassing for both of us. But it happened. At the wrap party for the mini-series we were at a restaurant, and we really didn’t know each other very well then. I remember Aaron had these Hunter S. Thompson-esque gold sunglasses. They were so Vegas, and the loudest shirt you’ve ever seen in your whole life. We were watching the gag reel and you just hear this voice from the back of the crowd. “Look at her eyes, she’s fucking gorgeous, look at her eyes!” You turn around and there’s Aaron Douglas. I understand it was a compliment, but I was like, “Oh God! Who is this person?” It’s a good story because Aaron and I have come to be really good friends over the years. He actually understands me a great deal more than I understand myself sometimes. For as grumpy as he can be, he is excessively charming, that Mr. Douglas.

 

Kenn: You mentioned a wrap party, I think it was on Sci Fi Wire, or one of the interviews you did last week, you said you didn’t get to go to the series wrap party. Was that because you were somewhere else filming, or what?

Yes, and I totally should have clarified that. I was invited. I think it was an American bank holiday that weekend and different people were out of town. So they moved the date a couple of times, and I had been booked for a convention in Australia a little while before that. It just ended up being bad timing. I was in Australia with Jules Staite and Nichelle Nichols, and I got to miss the party unfortunately. But the producers of the convention were really sweet. They got me a huge Battlestar cake. I should put those pictures up because they are really classic. They got me a huge cake with the Battlestar emblem on it, and I got to be there with Nichelle Nichols. They called a bunch of the cast and got them to leave messages. They played their messages from the wrap party for me while I was in Australia. So I heard from Michael Trucco, Aaron Douglas and Tahmoh Penikett. They were at the party kind of screaming into their cell phones so I felt like I was there.

THE CHIEF’S DECK: Aaron Douglas vs Wil Wheaton :) (28 January 2009)

Wil Wheaton blogs about Aaron (January 27, 2009)

Wil Weaton made the following blog entry ……

everyone calm down

I don’t want to ruin the joke, but since people on the internet seem to be sarcasm-challenged: Aaron is kidding. We are members of the mutual admiration society, fellow hockey goaltenders, and share an affinity for as much beer as we can find. No joke: we contributed to the drying up of the Guinness tap at the sportsbar across the street from the hotel in Phoenix.

I’ve done two shows with Aaron, and I’ve been lucky to sit next to him both times. He’s what we call Good People™ and even though he totally fucked up the beard curve at the convention, I hope to see him again sooner than later.

Source: WWdN: In Exile

Wil is referring to this LiveJournal entry (see below) that Aaron accidentally posted on his own page instead of on here (yep, he meant to post it on here, he told me). He pressed ‘post’ instead of ‘Post to this community’. FYI … Aaron doesn’t have LJ email alerts set up so he didn’t even know there were replies to the entry he posted. Looks like most of the comments on there are from Wil Weaton fans that found it because of Wil’s blog entry. I guess they don’t realise that Aaron will never see their comments. Oh well, let them have their fun :)

Phoenix Comicon

Just a quick note to say thank you to Matt, Linda, Stephanie and the entire staff at Phoenix Comicon for an outstanding weekend. For anyone who lives nearby and is looking for a great bang for your buck and a lot of fun at a con I would highly recommend this one next year.

I hope to be there.

The only downer of the entire weekend was having to sit beside Wil Wheaton and listen to him talk about how much better Next Gen. was better than BSG, how Crusher is so much cooler than Tyrol and how his cast mates are hotter.

We can argue the merits of his claims but for me, I know that I would rather be an ass-kicking enlisted Chief than a wanker pre-pubescent pseudo engineering officer that had to run to his quarters for 3 minutes with a box of tissues every time counsellor Troi walked by.

Hey Wil…. go frak yourself…. oh that’s right…. you usually do…..

 

Head on over to the THE CHIEF’S DECK to read an additional comment from Aaron on this.

The Watcher (Ronald D. Moore) January 23, 2009

‘Battlestar Galactica’s’ Ron Moore discusses ‘A Disquiet Follows My Soul’
By: Maureen Ryan
Date: January 23, 2009
Source: The Watcher

 

Note: This is a snippet of an interview with RONALD D. MOORE where he mentions AARON DOUGLAS / CHIEF TYROL. To read the full interview, click HERE.

 

Why did you need to establish that Nicky is not the Chief’s baby?

Well, we’re starting to sort of resolve some of the plot threads and provide answers to things and one of the questions was, “Is Hera the only hybrid, the only Cylon-human child, or not?” If Nicky was a Cylon-human child, what does that mean? Now there’s two of them. It was important to the mythology of the show that only Hera be the only one. We had always sort of said that.

 

So you had to sort of retrofit…

Yeah, we had to retrofit that. We knew that was going to be a problem back when we decided that Tyrol was a Cylon. We said, “OK, how are we going to deal with that?” And [someone] said, “Well, maybe at some point we just find out Tyrol’s not the father.” And we all kind of laughed. And then we said, “Actually, that’s a very elegant solution to it.” We just say, “Tyrol’s not the father,” and we move on.

And that’s kind of how the show is. We take these gambles, then we take time to make sure it fits in with what we’ve got. Or we try to at least address it and make it fit into what we’ve got, so the mosaic is still consistent.

 

Does that meant that Cally cheated on the Chief? Were they together when she had her fling with Hot Dog?

I think Cottle says [the child was conceived] before they got married. I think she had some kind of relationship with Hot Dog, before she and Chief got married. But that all kind of falls into that missing year of time in between the end of Season 2 and the beginning of Season 3.

 

You know what, honestly, I would feel bad if, retroactively, Cally was a cheater. She went through enough.

I don’t think she was cheating. The intention was not that she was cheating on Tyrol. It was that she had some kind of relationship with Hot Dog, you know, before or concurrent with, as she and Tyrol were getting together. In my mind, Tyrol, like, in a moment, proposed to her. And she was stunned and said yes, but she had probably slept with Hot Dog three weeks before or something like that. It was one of those kinds of circumstances.

 

Got it. Because, you know, the Compendium of Bad Things that Happened to Cally …

[laughs] I know.

 

I’ve been re-watching the earlier seasons, and I developed this theory that you guys would sit around and go, “What’s the worst thing that happens in this episode? Can it happen to Cally?”

[laughs] I know.

 

So I just hoped that, you know, even in death, bad things would not continue to happen to her.

No, no. She wasn’t a cheater. It was just one of those things.

Wil Wheaton blogs about Aaron (January 19, 2009)

wil’s 2009 phoenix comicon schedule

Friday, January 23rd
12:30-1:30pm – Geek Out With Wil Wheaton, Yuri Lowenthal, and Aaron Douglas

Yuri and I worked on Legion of Superheroes together, and instantly became friends when I dropped an obscure geek reference that he not only got, but topped with an equally-obscure reply (that I also got.) Yuri knows Aaron, and I spent most of a con in Sacramento last year sitting next to Aaron Douglas. It turns out that we’re all big geeks, so we thought it would be fun to spend an hour getting our geek on together. Topics of conversation will include voice acting and being a geek who gets to work on these geeky things that we love.

Friday, January 23rd
10pm – MOTHER FUCKING ROCK BAND BITCHES YEAH! \m/

This should be a lot of fun: I’ll play with three people at a time, taking whatever instrument they don’t want to play. We’re supposed to be there for an hour, but once we start rocking, we’ll be there until they pry our fake instruments from our cold, dead hands. There’s a very good chance Yuri and Aaron will join us for a song or two. Also, if all of this isn’t filmed and put online, I don’t know why we even bothered to fight the Spanish American war, people.

Source: WWdN: In Exile

The Watcher (Bradley Thompson) January 17, 2009

Thoughts from Bradley Thompson on the making of “Sometimes a Great Notion,”
By: Maureen Ryan
Date: January 17, 2009
Source: The Watcher

 

Note: This is a snippet of an interview with BRADLEY THOMPSON where he mentions AARON DOUGLAS / CHIEF TYROL. To read the full interview, click HERE.

 

From the get-go, “Battlestar Galactica” has been about transcending limitations. It’s one of the themes of the drama, but it’s also a real-life problem our crew fought every day. “Sometimes a Great Notion,” was no exception.

Our production draft of the script hit the production team like an anvil dropped from the fourteenth floor.

EXT. EARTH STREET CORNER – DAY – PAST

Tyrol stands in front of a brick apartment building in a tight urban neighborhood. Corner coffee shop. Art gallery. Smoke billows in the distance from the burning city beyond. Dust fills the air. PEOPLE stumble past, moving away from the smoke. A disoriented Tyrol whips his head around, trying to get his bearings. SERIES OF QUICK DETAIL SHOTS, A LANDSLIDE OF SENSATION…

…A MAN and A WOMAN stagger toward him, silhouetted against the smoke.

…A car explodes into flame in the middle of the street.

…The building’s glass door blows out, spraying shards.

…Tyrol pulls several pieces from his bleeding face.

…Closer now, the man and the woman have smudged and scorched faces.

…A flaming phone pole crashes down, dragging its wires onto the pavement.

…THE WOMAN’S skin, where her clothing has torn away, is burned in the pattern of her dress.

WOMAN
Water. Please. Water.

They reach toward him. His eyes flash down at —

…their hands. LONG STRIPS OF BLOODY SKIN hang from them, like gloves turned inside out.

…Tyrol has to look away. At the doorway. Sees —

…A woman’s black hair, her dark eyes looking out at him. Could it be Sharon? No. Before we can recognize her, she turns away from the shattered opening.

Tyrol suddenly runs toward the apartment entrance. The sky WHITES OUT with a stupendous ROAR as another NUKE detonates. FOR AN INSTANT…

Tyrol’s eyes see HIS SHADOW on the brick, just as his body’s swallowed in the WHITE LIGHT AND ROAR.

A page that could cost a fortune. A street. Actors. Smoke. Set fire to a telephone pole and drop it. Blow up a car – and an entire city. Not to mention the makeup and the flying glass.

It wasn’t just this. We also had another nuclear explosion that dropped a building on two of our characters. A crashed Viper in a field. Some very expensive guest actors. Oh, and a ruined civilization on a beach – something the Art Department would have to build at the beginning of Vancouver’s winter. Yeah, and we’d have to shoot out there for at least two days. That’s a lot for a cable budget right there. It rains in Vancouver. And if the weather didn’t cooperate, we were hosed. Literally.

The production team looked at us as if we’d been smoking crack. In a masterpiece of understatement, Supervising Producer Harvey Frand (the man who had to find a way to pay for all this) told us:

“Guys, your script is great. But we seem to be in a financial bind with it. While the studio is willing to go over pattern on this episode, preliminary estimates have us at about two and a half times their limit. We are expecting new budgets this morning based on the production draft and the preproduction meeting yesterday. As soon as we have them, I’ll let you know the difficult areas and try to work with the departments to trim without having to devastate the script.”

Okay. Par for the course – part of our job as producers is to figure out how to tell things cheaper. Director Michael Nankin came to Vancouver to prepare for shooting. Together, we found ways that could make the story work better and theoretically bring the budget under control. In our next pass at the script, along with other cuts, the street destruction came way down:

EXT. WALL – DAY – PAST

Tyrol walks along an apartment wall. Catches sight of a WOMAN’S dark hair in the doorway. A glimpse of her almond eyes. She turns away. He steps up his pace. The sky WHITES OUT with the stupendous ROAR of a NUCLEAR detonation.

FOR AN INSTANT, TYROL’S EYES see HIS SHADOW on the brick, just as his body’s swallowed in the WHITE LIGHT AND ROAR.

That didn’t kill the story point, just eliminated extra eye candy. We could live with that.

Producer Ron French, who often had the un-fun responsibility of bringing us back to reality, corralled us in his office. He said that our other proposed cuts would go a long way toward making this episode possible, but that those dollar-sucking nuclear blasts were still in the script. Until they were gone, there was no way we could fit the episode into the time and money we had to make it.

And here is where “Battlestar” was different from any other show I’d worked on. David Weddle (my co-writer) and I simply looked at him and said, “We need those scenes to tell the story. What can you afford to do?”

Suddenly, it was no longer a fight between Finance and Creative. It was All Of Us Against The Problem. Ron dragged Production Designer Richard Hudolin and Art Director Doug McLean into the office. They thought for a while and finally said that maybe… maybe… they could afford to build a small two-wall set in a corner of one of our stages. Drop some Styrofoam debris on the actors. Blow it up with lighting effects – but that still left the destruction on the city street. There was just no way we could find a place to shoot that.

We dragooned Michael Nankin and visual effects wizard Gary Hutzel into the conversation. And Michael said, “If we can’t go on location, we’ll do it on the set. Give me one wall, a green screen, and a fruit cart. I’ll get the scene. And Gary will build the city and blow it up.”

TV Guide (Jamie Bamber) January 16, 2009

Jamie Bamber Promises Answers on Battlestar Galactica
By: Erin Fox
Date: January 16, 2009
Source: TV Guide

 

Note: This is a snippet of an interview with JAMIE BAMBER where he mentions AARON DOUGLAS / CHIEF TYROL. To read the full interview, click HERE.

 

Was the end of the show satisfying to you, and was it emotional?

Yeah, it really was. The way that scripts are delivered, people read them at different times, and I think I was one of the last people to read [the finale] — just because I was working all day. Other cast members had had time to read it, and I looked up at Aaron Douglas wandering around with his iPod in his ears and tears in his eyes holding the script. Different people were falling down [crying] as it were and you think, “What’s up with everyone? Oh they’re reading the final thing.” So, I sat down and read it and the same thing happened to me, you know, you tear up. It was an extraordinary piece of work on the page. … And, [it] was so character driven. It was like a piece of music, with repetitive themes and suddenly the whole five seasons of these individual’s journeys was kind of all present on the same time onscreen. You felt the entirety of their experience. And that’s really the climax of the show; it was about who the final Cylon is … and we’ve already found Earth. All those things happen and then you’re left with actually what the story’s really been about. Which is: what is it to be human in a big old universe which is empty and cold and scary? What life is about and what consciousness is about? They’re left at the end with these big questions on their mind. And, wondering what they should do with themselves having reached a place of finality. It was really profound.

Emissary: Dekker Dreyer – Official Website

Gotta love google. Here’s what I found out from a google search regarding the web tv show with Phil Morris that Aaron mentioned in the Slice of SciFi interview. At least I *think* that’s what I’ve found. The following is from the website of Dekker Dreyer

 

Emissary: An action adventure series starring Phil Morris (Smallville), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Brian Thompson (Enterprise / X-Files) and others.

Emissary Preview at NYCC ’09
13 November 2008

It’s official! Phil Morris and I have been working very hard to put together a new series we created called Emissary and at the next New York Comic Con we’re going to preview it for you. Comic book legend Neal Adams is involved as are some awesome actors from shows like Battlestar Galactica and X-Files. Phil and I are very proud of what we’ve put together so far and by February we’re going to have an awesome panel for you.I’m slated to direct several episodes with writing credit split between myself, Phil and possibly Neal. Other actors whom I’ve worked with before who will be returning are Sean Hampton (Eleventh Hour) and J LaRose (Saw3, Repo: The Genetic Opera)

The panel will be Friday Feb. 6th, 2009 at 6pm

Source: http://www.dekkerdreyer.com/blog/emissary-preview-at-nycc-09

More NYCC Confirmations
4 December 2008

So it looks like we have confirmed for our NYCC Panel, Phil Morris (Smallville), Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica), Yuri Lowenthal (Ben 10), and Brian Thompson (X-Files). There’s also talk of a VIP Emissary after-party! I’m trying to get a few others on board too.

Rock the hell on!

Source: http://www.dekkerdreyer.com/blog/more-nycc-confirmations

Emissary and the Ancient World
30 December 2008

Obviously, I can’t reveal everything we’re working on for Emissary, but I did a concept painting today related to the epic of Gilgamesh. The main character, Campbell Essex (played by Phil Morris), is a forensic archaeologist working on such things as first language and ancient proto-cultures.

In a purely archaeological context first language is the hypothesized root language of Greek, French, Hindi, Persian, and others. This theory of monogenesis, supported by academics like Merritt Ruhlen (see On the Origin of Languages: Studies in Linguistic Taxonomy. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press), is currently being explored through several different branches of historical study. However, in a biblical context, the first language was the language of man before the events of Genesis 10 – 11 (the tower of babel).

“Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.’ And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, ‘Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.’ And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.’ So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.’ Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.” (Genesis 11:1-9)

In circles where these events are taken at face value there is a notion that it was this language which gave man power over the earth. Some believe that Noah, having known the true names of the animals of the earth as having had them named by god himself, was able to control the animals and draw them to the ark.

Phil reminded me that this concept is similar to the way Garth Ennis used the “voice of god” power in his graphic novel series Preacher. In the series the protagonist can force a man to do his bidding by knowing his name.

We think it’s an interesting idea for Campbell to be deeply involved in the idea of a first language and the culture associated with it.

Source: http://www.dekkerdreyer.com/blog/emissary-and-the-ancient-world

Shooting Emissary with Stills!
8 January 2009

(first stills from Emissary)

The Emissary trailer shooting has been going great. Phil and I have been very happy with what we’ve been getting. Our stunt coordinator, Michael DePasquale Jr, was fantastic to work with. All of his men were equally impressive and hard working. They did tremendous work. It’s been freezing cold and everyone has been a champ about that.

Today is the second shoot day and we’re going to be crawling all around Manhattan. Tonight I’m dropping Phil down in Atlantic City for the Action Martial Arts Magazine Hall of Honor event. All of our stunt guys will be there and I really wish I could stay, but it’s just not in the cards. My wife and I will probably just unwind with friends in the mountains this weekend.

It’s up to Phil, but I think that there might be a special dailies reel of Emissary shown during the Action event.

Time to get going. Shooting uptown at 10am.

Source: http://www.dekkerdreyer.com/blog/shooting-emissary

New Emissary Stills
9 January 2009

Emissary is still coming to New York Comic Con and we couldn’t be more excited about it. I dropped Phil off in Atlantic City last night after we wrapped and watched some dailies. The character is really starting to come together in the footage we shot

The American Museum of Natural History was gracious enough to allow us use of their Central Park West entrance for a few shots and they really look stunning. I love digital workflow in filmmaking.

Source: http://www.dekkerdreyer.com/blog/one-new-emissary-still

THE CHIEF’S DECK: Ask The Chief (Part 2) (08 January 2009)

THE CHIEF’S DECK: My old band (07 January 2009)

THE CHIEF’S DECK: Someone is bugging me…. (07 January 2009)

THE CHIEF’S DECK: The Day The Earth Stood Still (in theaters today) (12 December 2008)