Christian Rivers.
With Andy Serkis busy being a monkey at the moment, the directing duties for our action unit have fallen on Christian's shoulders.
Back in 1986, when I was finishing my first movie, Bad Taste, I received my very first fan letter - from a 13 year old school boy, who sent me drawings of wizards and dragons. It was truly my first fan letter, so I wrote straight back to him.
By the time I was making Braindead, this school boy was a couple of years older, and joined us as my storyboard artist. He's gone on to do storyboards for virtually every movie I've made since. He became animation director on King Kong, and won an Oscar. He's now directing our splinter unit, and developing projects of his own.
This is Christian of course. It does prove that fan letters can pay off! I want to say "keep them coming" but I'm not going to.
Christian's now got Dwalin on K Stage and the battle continues on a real set. He's got about the same number of shots as us to get finished today.
We're battling on, shooting Thorin in a climatic duel for the third movie. Finishing the entire shoot with the end of his story. Fitting I guess. It's obviously not the very end of the movie itself. That scene was actually shot about 2 years ago. But it's tough emotional stuff to punch on with into the night. Keeps us on our toes until the bitter end!
4.30pm ... the day is still young.
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