I am not unhappy to be limping out of 2024, whilst we are not being shat on by tories for a bit, the time is approaching to don our sou’westers to prepare for President Tango to empty his bowels over the planet.
In other news, it was back to Budapest in March to reunite with my Wick Squad to put ‘Ballerina’ back on her points. I can report that Ana de Armas is a delight and just as beautiful as you could imagine.
There was no time to go home for a costume change before I headed to Bovingdon UK to shoot with Alex Garland on ‘Warfare’, a 5 week whirlwind shoot all set in a cinder block house in Fallujah. With 2 handheld cameras, 2 boom operators and 16 actors fully loaded with military kit it was an oddly intimate experience.
It’s rare that I get to work alongside 3 of my favourite directors in a single year but after I wrapped with Chad Stahelski and Alex Garland, Francis Lawrence enticed me up to Winnipeg for a Stephen King project called ‘The Long Walk’ with another stellar cast of young actors.
Working and becoming friends with the new generation of actors such as Cailee Spaeny, Cooper Hoffman, Michael Gandolfini and Joe Quinn is the reason I still love my job after all these years, that and my appreciation for bad coffee.
It seems incredible that this is the 5th year that we have produced our small mounted prints for Christmas, I wonder if anyone has the whole set? I thought this casual moment before Monty drives in with a couple of blues perfect. As usual, it is a very limited edition.
Try not to get arrested.
Chin chin,
MC
