sp; width="25" height="25"> It has been a while since we've had a Colin Farrell update so what the hey eh. When the Irish boy hasn't been pursuing British singer Jamelia or treating house guests to the full-frontal nude scene cut from "A Home at the End of the World", he's been down in Jamestown, Virginia shooting his next flick - the retelling of the old Capt. John Smith and Pocahontas story "The New World".
<a href="http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/0904/172298.html" target="_blank">The Associated Press</a> reports that the Terrence Malick-directed project is causing a ripple of commotion and commerce across the Williamsburg area. Throughout all the talk, information about the $30 million project is beginning to leak out. Malick has apparently gone to pains to ensure that the backdrop for "The New World" matches history, however the film includes something history's plot didn't: a romance between Smith and Pocahontas.
A few miles up river from Jamestown's replica tourist fort, the production company has built its own fort. Seen from the water, the fort rises from a tree-covered riverbank, roughhewn and ancient-looking. More than 40 local carpenters helped build the set, which depicts America's first permanent English settlement in its earliest days.
Last week, a river scene was being shot around a bend near the set. A small aluminum boat carried an American Indian actress in a thigh-baring buckskin skirt. Her boat zipped in circles, churning up a wake for the scene being filmed. In the water, an American Indian actor struggled for control in a shallow, slick-hulled dugout canoe. Dressed in a flimsy loincloth and menacing war paint, he paddled slowly around tall tufts of marsh grass, followed by the cameras.
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