While confirming up some of the other news about Dreamworks on the site today, I came across a spy I'll call Just Kidding. Anyway, Just Kidding told me that everybody is real real excited about what is going on with THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE. Just Kidding said that the real star of the film is the same as it was in Robert Wise's original... the house. And to make sure we know that they hired the following technical team to make sure that house is properly shown. The first behind the scenes star is Caleb Deschanel.

Who?

Caleb Deschanel. He's been the director of photography on films like... oh... how about THE NATURAL, THE RIGHT STUFF, FLY AWAY HOME and BEING THERE. What does this mean? Well it means a cinematographer that really has a great grasp of lights and shadows is at work. Someone that could make this house live just by playing with the lights. Personally, the best part of the original HAUNTING was the photography. The use of foreground, midground and background was exquisite. Caleb is about as good as we could possibly hope for.

Then Just Kidding, told me that Eugenio Zanetti is the Production Designer on the flick. When I asked who.... well Just Kidding started laughing at me like I was a high school dropout taking a BAR exam. He then told me that this Eugenio fella was a genius that did the amazing work on WHAT DREAMS MAY COME, a masterpiece of production design btw. I looked him up over at IMDB and found out he also did FLATLINERS and RESTORATION. Two films that if you combined... well they would kinda give us an idea of how this house should look.

Then Michael Kahn, Spielberg's own editor, will be chop chop chopping away as editor on the film. He's just a god of editing, having done most of your favorite big films like BLACK BELT JONES, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, POLTERGEIST, THE GOONIES, JURASSIC PARK and SCHINDLER'S LIST.

So basically what Just Kidding was telling me was the film has the right skill positions. And we already know that DeBont is going with a great cast thus far. Geez, I hope he doesn't screw this up. Glen over at Coaxial is a big fan of DeBont's, and I have to say that given the scripts he's had... he's done a decent job. I just hope that he does a great job with this script, cause I'm a big fan. Especially if they tone down some of the end stuff a bit, cause right now some of it feels like.... "Oh, we have made a great movie so far, but gosh, we have to do something to make the audience come back 1000 times, cause a great movie ain't enough" Ya know what I'm saying? Cool. So there ya go.