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SPACE COWBOYS to be shooting in Houston!
Hey folks, Harry here, and ya know.... Looks like SPACE COWBOYS is almost set to start lensing. We've been covering this one for a while (Here's an Earlier Story!) meanwhile with a cast like:
Clint Eastwood,
Tommy Lee Jones,
James Cromwell,
William Devane,
James Garner,
Marcia Gay Harden,
Renee Olstead ,
Donald Sutherland,
Toby Stephens and Courtney B Vance... well, gosh... We have to be a bit excited. Though I remember the days when Harrison Ford was rumored to be attached to this on... and Sean Connery.... Ahhhh.... Oh well, it still rocks.
I work for a government agency in Houston, Texas, and earlier this week I
was contacted by Craig A. Busch (Assistant Locations Manager) from Warner
Bros.' upcoming production of 'Space Cowboys', directed by and starring
Clint Eastwood along with Tommy Lee Jones and Donald Sutherland. Mr. Busch
told me that filming will begin on Friday, August 6 in Houston on 'Space
Cowboys' with much of the cast in attendance. Most of the filming will be
in and around Houston, specifically at NASA's Johnson Space Center (Clear
Lake, Texas) and Ellington Field (just south of Houston and also near Clear
Lake). 'Space Cowboys' is the story of some older, retired astronauts who
are called out of retirement to go on a special mission to stop a crippled
satellite from falling back to Earth.
On Friday, August 13, the cast and crew will be filming a scene in a
parking lot near the University of Houston-downtown campus on Main Street.
The filming of this scene will begin at approximately 8:00 p.m. and
conclude at approximately 3:00 a.m. (Saturday, August 14). The crew is
asking the maintenance staffs of many of Houston's downtown high-rise
buildings to keep the lights on in the buildings for the filming of this
scene for the spectacular background of downtown Houston.
So, if any of your Houston area Ain't-It-Cool-News fans want to catch a
glimpse of Clint ("Make my day!") Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones or Donald
Sutherland while they're in Houston filming 'Space Cowboys', pass this
along to 'em!
You can call me 'Fountainhead'!
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My only fear about this movie is that the coolness of the three leads will somehow merge, mutiply itself and reach some sort of cinematic Absolute Zero, thus risking the existence of life as we know it. The scary thing is, it probably will be worth it.
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The only way this cast could be better is if they signed Jesus Christ, Jimmy Hoffa, the ghost of Ann Bolyn and Bigfoot to star. My jaw hit the floor when I read the names of the cast, and I have a feeling it'll hit the floor once again when I see the movie. Let us pray that this movie is as good as it has the potential to be.
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Good cast. Hope the script is good, otherwise another Hollywood catastrophe is in the works.
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Which of the cowboys are going to buy the farm, and which are going to make it home? I say James Garner and Tommy Lee Jones are the first to die.
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Why don't they just use the astronauts they have to fix a sattelite? Oh, let me guess, only the old farts know how it works? Alright, it's a really cool cast and I'll probably end up seeing it multiple times, but the plot sounds as weird as Armaggedon, where oil drillers go out to outerspace because no astronauts know how to drill. Ah forget it!
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There's your plot right there! All the astronauts come down with a weird space virus and the only guys that can fix the sattilite are..."THE VILLAGE PEOPLE!" They could sing their songs- "In the navy(We need you for a new recruit!)", "Y-M-C-A" and many more!(Avaiable on K-Tel Records. Ask for Operator 25, standing by.) It could be directed by Nancy "What's her face" from "McMillan and Wife", if she wasn't dead. It'll be a musical, science-fiction/adventure/drama the whole family will want to see, if your family is the Charles Manson family.
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Man I live right in Clear Lake! Is there any way I could get a part as an extra in this??
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It's about time we got something cool like this. Do you know how many mall serveyers I have pestered just to see if I can get an advance test screening and mail in my review. Anything for the team. Maybe I will approach Mr. Eastwood as his long forgotten son that he fathered during the filming of Outlaw Josey Wales...then again maybe not.
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AND?! Your point IS? So what if the so-called "old people" are the reality that is driving this movie? (If an actor/actress is older than you, does that make them any less worthy of employment?) Is that any worse than putting pubescent wanna-be's in to movie roles? NO, it is not worse...if that is what the marketplace dictates, if that is what the ticketbuyers are asking for... then we all get what we deserve, teen-candy flicks or geezer shows. (Myself, I'm looking forward to the Elizabeth Taylor/Debbie Reynolds/Lauren Bacall movie that was scripted by Carrie Fisher...)
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Anybody else want to go with me down to Houston and buy up all the Geritol from every store in the area? We can go down to the set and sell it for twice what we paid! We'll make a fortune! Those old geezers are loaded, but not for long!....On a more serious note...nah fuck it....Actually the movie sounds great, but please don't let Eastwood play any instruments or sing any "which way but loose" songs or I will really go to Houston, but instead of Geritol I'll be packin' poison. Out.
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Its true.....really.
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...are you SERIOUS??!! As in Dame Maggie Smith's son?
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