Filming is underway in Thailand on Oliver Stone's massive "Alexander" project and Rope of Silicon has just posted up a rather brilliant report right from the heart of the action. Here's just a sample of what we can expect:
"As far as what they were shooting we got word that it was four separate scenes. Shooting is taking place in a jungle like setting in the Udon Thani province in Thailand. The ground is covered in leaves and the cast and ground is consistently sprayed down with a fire house to create that "tropical" effect. Also amidst the forest are several fog machines and a drummer some 50 yards away beating a large drum every 5-10 seconds.
The choppers are an assault team that attacks elephants. Each elephant has a guard at each leg to keep him from being attacked, so the first four guys in the assault team are to attack these four guys and the second four guys have no shields but have long hooked blade weapons tied to their hamstrings and they gut the elephant.
I am wearing a burlap sac with arm and head holes cut in it along with a burlap pair of undies. I have an arched short sword and a big silver shield. Most of us have to wear hair pieces so that we have locks hanging out our helmets, mostly black but with blonde streaks, they also made us shave our legs".
The full report with lots more details can be found online here.
Thanks to 'Brad' & 'George'
