Break a Leg

Hey, guys. Here's a blog from our very own Drew Lanning (Jimmy "Goat Legs" Scotch) with some iPhone pictures of various Break a Leg-related goodness. Enjoy!

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I'm watching The Manhattan Project while I write this, I just need stuff on in the background while I do… while I do other stuff

I thought I’d put up a few crappy camera-phone pics I managed to sneak out of The Devil Clause shoot and give you a behind-the-scenes look at how we throw one of these episodes together. At the end I’ve also got a couple lousy shots from the shoot of the latest contribution to the ongoing story arc. Yuri’s already written a bit about it in one of his production blogs.

Wow, John Lithgow had that hot nerd thing going, didn’t he? He was really young back then. I love how “the purest plutonium in the universe” is being dripped into and presumably stored in a Tupperware bottle.

OK, on with it then.

Top-down on the “Broommates” set. Commence drooling.

Detail on the bear drawing. Yuri did this one. He kept saying he didn’t remember what a bear looked like, hence the label “BEAR”.

Rudolph. I don’t recall if Dashiell or Skip did this one.

Watching The Manhattan Project just really makes me wish I was watching Real Genius.

Santa. I don’t recall if Skip or Dashiell did this one.

The man himself. I love the sunglasses, typical LA Santa.

What I do when I arrive at every shoot. Pick up the latest script and Dashiell’s replica Kill Bill katana. Bill’s, not Beatrix’s.

Here’s a bonus shot from the episode 5 shoot. We count using the new math now. Episode 4 is still next, then after that is 5. That’s not so new, I guess.

A very young Cynthia Nixon is in this, too. The Sex In The City movie is going to be stupid. Like The Manhattan Project.

And finally…

The lovely soon-to-be Mrs. Toshiyuki manning a light. Daniela can be seen off to the side there. Maybe. Whatever, I don’t know.

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And on that note, I believe Mr. Lanning went off to watch the rest of his movie, which, don't feel bad if you miss the references, I haven't seen it either. That last shot, by the way, is what's causing the "fire" inside that Uhaul van in the last explosion. We would fill up the Uhaul with smoke from the smoke machine, then open it and Hillary would wave a gel in front of a light to give that fire effect.

Now you learned something!

-Yuri.. and Drew. Mostly Drew.