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Set Report from MEN IN BLACK 2
Hey folks, Harry here.... Well Monday Night was the first night of shooting in New York, if they're shooting long, perhaps I'll have to visit the New York Kitten and take a field trip to the set my own self. We'll see how it turns out. But for right now, between Amateur Scientist and Ceres... it seems the film reports are well in hand... ENJOY...
Harry,
take a look at this. it's a picture from the MEN IN
BLACK 2 movie set. you'll see that it's a medium sized
flying saucer stuck into the top of a diner like it's
crash landed or something. a plot point? we'll see.
what I also found out was that two members of the crew
were good friends of mine, so I'll be going back when
they shoot tonight.
that's all for now
Amateur Scientist - out.
And then we have a complete report from tonight's shoot of MEN IN BLACK 2 below... WAY COOL! And hopefully we'll get more shots of the craft when there is no tarp obscuring it! Here ya go...
I'm in from Ceres visiting family in the Big Apple. Not much going on on
Ceres, but here's what's going on for the next two days in Chelsea.
First night of the MIB2 shoot was Monday, 6/11/01 in New York City, USA, at W.
22d and 10th Ave at the landmark Empire Diner (as seen in Woody Allen's and
countless other NYC films).
On Monday, shooting ran all night. Filming in in this neighborhood is
scheduled to go at least through this Wednesday, 6/13.
The diner has been redressed as a pie shop, with with pictures of pie slices
superimposed upon the menu behind the counter, as well as neon "Fresh Pie"
signs in the windows (I did not see David Lynch hiding in the park across the
street). The only menu I could see through the window had normal pie
varieties, but at the bottom was listed "Moon Pie" ($3.50). Interior decor
includes a conical lava lamp and a little white rocketship on a shelf for a
retro-sf-diner motif.
A dull silver flying-saucer-shaped spaceship has crashed, edge down, into the
roof of the diner, with smoke painted upon the brick wall behind. This may be
a UFO for the movie, but it's pretty small, so I'm guessing it's part of the
decor of the fictional diner itself. Some P.A. types were hinting that it was
going to get blown up tonight, but I'm taking that with a grain of salt.
Isn't that what CGI's for?
In any case, they wrapped the saucer with plastic to protect it from the rain
last night.
I'll try to submit some diner photos tomorrow.
Will Smith and Patrick Warburton (Puddy from Seinfeld, and soon to be seen as
The Tick on TV) were on location. At one point Warburton, clad in full-dress
Man In Black costume and grinning from ear-to-ear, walked extremely slowly
from his trailer to the set, scanning the small crowd as if he were dying to
sign autographs. Smith also found a few moments to sign autographs, though
later four large guys escorted him as he sprinted the entire 40 feet from his
trailer to the makeup trailer.
The crowd dwindled from about 50 to a handful as it began to rain around 10pm,
with the paparazzi finally outnumbering the crowd.
Props guys obscured a table of bloopy-looking ray guns and funky computer
monitors with a tarp as the drizzle intensified.
Both sides of the street were filled for two blocks with vehicles. Panavision
trucks and official-looking signs blocked the bus stops, instructing people to
use bus stops on the next block. I assume a typical New Yorker, tired of
movie crews constantly disrupting the peaceful routine of Manhattan street
life, ratted them out, as later police were seen chewing out the guys in the
trucks for unauthorized blocking of buses. The guys in the truck were giving
back as good as they got, however. Gotta love this town.
For a movie with this kind of budget, the set security was lax. For example,
two days ago props were just lying on a table on the sidewalk where at least
one passerby just wandered over and picked up something just to give it a look
before being shooed away, gently, by a dumbfounded prop guy. There wasn't
even a Production Assistant on the street corner herd padestrians until 20
minutes before the shooting.
An announcement was made to cast and crew gathered on the sidewalk to the
effect of: "Welcome to the first day of MIB2. Be aware this is an open set.
It's NYCwe want to see live street life..."
--Fourmyle
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...I hate sequels.
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why, cuz I said so. I've seen it and I know. Shut face
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...that will no doubt accompany this next exercise in mediocrity. Oy.
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Men In Black "2"...5 years later. Just a thought--Ghostbusters. All things considered, MIB was the GB of the 90s. And now it's following the same pattern, a sequel 5 years later. By that time, a movie has all but lost it's audience, and more importantly, the creative teams behind it have lost touch with the audience. MIB, like GB, was cool, in tune with the public, "hip", "right on" (to use a few 80s terms), etc etc etc. A lot changes in 5 years, and I doubt the movie will change to adapt to it. Besides the dead givaway of unoriginality by a simple "2" title, can we believe that the writers have spent all 5 years developing ideas, or rather that it took them 5 years to come up with something to top the original? Probably "No" on both counts. So, I guess all my rambling is to say, just add one more "2" to an entire year of "2s". Just for the record, let's take inventory of all the "2s" we're going to get, for both good and bad: Matrix 2 (cool), Star Wars 2 (hopeful), MIB 2 (maybe), Lord of the Rings 2 (awesome), X-Men 2 (hopeful), Blade 2 (dunno), Stargate 2 (hmmm)--am I missing anyone?
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Sounds great, at least the little information we got. Need to get more behind the scenes-info from guys and gals on set. And, of course, photograps!
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Hi there, Game Master!
Yes, you missed one: Goonies 2. I am not really sure it will work... (By the way: Indy 4 will be quite a jump in time as well).
Bye - Stan
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You are so incompetant. This site needs to look a lot less palsey.
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This has potential if handled right. I liked the first one; it was good dumb fun. I hope this is more of the same without being a retread. I really hope they bring back Danny Elfman to do the score again, too.
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Just give Will the money that he doesn't deserve.
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Anyone remember the ep where a flying saucer crashed into a building? The MIB came, cleaned the place up, but left the saucer there. They neuralyzed the owners into thinking they had come into money and changed the place into a theme restaurant. Looks like that might be the idea here.
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They should have brought her back. I mean, she was an agent at the end of the first one...but then again, this movie supposedly takes place 5 years after the first. So is she dead? They'll probably come up with some stupid excuse like "she was shot into space or something."
And does anyone know how exactly they plan on bringing Tommy Lee Jones back into the picture? He was better than Smith in the first movie, but I would prefer a little bit of continuity... -
Jun 13, 2001 10:29:22 AM CDT
Geezs, took you for-f-cking EVER to get that damn picture back u
by squashua
What happened, did you sit on it and it got lost?
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Stuart Little 2 and the Scorpion Kind(technically the Mummy 2, part 2)
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I think it's too early to judge the new MIB. But most sequels haven't been too good lately. But next summer is going to probably rival 1989...in a big way!!
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It is the summer of "2"..2002..
"MIB 2"
"SW: Episode 2"
"Spy Kids 2"
"Stuart Little 2"
"Scooby Doo" (it rhymes with 2)
and a couple possibel 3s!!
Austin Powers 3 and Terminator 3!!
Wow what a summer!!...oh yeah..I almost forgot a movie sure to be a hit..
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Why oh why god does Harry keep mentioning his fucking kitten!?! Leave that poor thing alone!
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Now that I think about it, that ship looks like a little foh-toe-shoppe.
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The ship that has 'crashed' into the restaurant is very obviously the tiny ship that the space bug thingy crashed landed in at the start of MIB, I could be wrong, but I don't think I am.
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What the hell is that supposed to mean?! They only blow things up using CGI, is that it? WTF?!?! Hasn't this guy ever heard of Pyrotechnics? Dynamite? Explosives?! All of these came BEFORE they even built computers! What an ass! And, yes, the idea of a flying saucer crashing into a diner, then being redecorated into a theme resteraunt is from one of the episodes of the animated series. I thought it was neat.
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...for Warburton, but I'll probably leave ashamed of myself. Wild Wild West 2 anyone?
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I love sequels. Hopefully this one won't suck like many do. I have seen a total of about 5 MIB cartoons, and man was I really disappointed. The cool opening got my hopes up but the shows stunk. Much like the film was Ghostbusters-like I was hoping the cartoon would be Real Ghostbusters-like, but no such luck. At least realghostbusters-like until it degenerated into mostly kiddie crap and Slimer!
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I noticed that someone mentioned how the spaceship in a diner thing was from an episode of the MIB cartoon, an episode which I remember seeing. Then I read the post from someone wanting to know how Tommy-Lee Jones could be brought back into the sequel. Well, if the people making MIB 2 are indeed stealing (borrowing? :) from the animated series, then it is interesting to note that there is one episode of the series in which a recurring bad-guy character named Alpha goes after some big-wig at MIB who had had his memory "changed". (It was actually all one big plan to capture Alpha, yadda yadda) Anyways, at one point in the episode Alpha said to agents J and K that a person's true memories are always inside their brains, even after their memories are "changed", you just have to know where to look to find them (Not the exact quote, but it is close enough). Following the diner/animated series crossover path I have already discussed, presto, a way for Tommy-Lee Jones to be in the 2nd movie. (If he is even going to be in the 2nd movie that is, I havent even kept up enough lately to know if he has signed on for it or not)
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Your username is oddly appropriate.
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Jun 13, 2001 9:22:57 PM CDT
Deac Speaks..... MiB 2... just 2? and NO LINDA FLORENTINO!?!?!?
by deacon
in this age of "The Matrix : Reloaded" and "The Lost World: Jurassic Park" i thought the Number system was gone for good.. hell even Batman movies abandoned it as with The Mummy... in fact the only movie that had a 2 in it's title was Mission:Impossible 2... if a movie can't come up with a cool subtitle then what can the story be like? and i liked ghostbusters2 thank you very much (well... better late then never) i like subtitles because it's like... it's the same characters and world, just different story.. a story called "Reloaded" (in the matrix's case anyway) but when you add a 2 i just get the feeling it's more of the same.. just MiB rehashed and reworked and just a little new stuff added to warrent a sequel, i thought that the MiB would be going to other planets according to Will Smith's ET inmterview.. i guess that was scrapped.. i mean we get the old hand at things breaking in the new guy who's frightened and intrigued by all the new stuff... and the first case is stopping a mean ass alien from finding something that one guy had but got killed by the alien looking for it... same exact plotline for MiB and MiB 2... sad isn't it? if the plot can be broken down into a plot that sounds exactly like the first one, then thats not a good sign... and no linda florentino? what the hell? it's not like her price was too high or that she has other projects come on! she would probably be happy to be in MiB 2 i mean call me crazy but have you seen Jade? that shit david caruso movie? Florentino Ass... damn i love that movie
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Episode II didn't have a subtitle on the first day of shooting. It appears Matrix 2 didn't either. So why is everyone SO positive that MIB2 is the FINAL title? Remember folks, when you ASS-U-ME...you know the rest.
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Jun 13, 2001 10:17:59 PM CDT
I hope MIB becomes a huge franchise with dozens of sequels...
by mrfrost
Oh wait, no I dont. MIB sucks shiite through a crazy straw.
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Yeesh.....OH and Linda Florentino is a hottie...if she's in the next one I'll watch it in the theatres, no Florentino and you can wave my money good bye. Oh and I want that Farmers wife in it too...I like her also. That chick that was in Dancer in the Dark..mmmmmmmmmm.
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Jun 14, 2001 1:34:26 AM CDT
Is Rick Baker back on board for FX, or is he burnt out after POT
by monkey_king
There was so much unseen, sweet stuff Rick and his crew did for the first film, is he working on this one as well?
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Jun 14, 2001 2:36:55 AM CDT
I just want to say something to people who post "This'll suck" m
by theginger twit
Imagine you are back in 1980, The second Star Wars film is being made and you get an aint it cool news scoop. The first 20 minutes of the film will be set on a ice planet and Luke gets attacked by an ice creature. 'ehhh, moan, groan. What shite. I want space battles.' The rest of the film Has the falcon being chased down by the imperial fleet. 'What? is that it? This'll be sheer and utter poo!' Or how about this.... Dan Ackroid and Bill Murray and sigorney Weaver are making a comedy film where they hunt down ghosts. "Oh you have to be kidding. why can't they be hunting down something a little better than Ghosts?' Hey, Guess what, They're planning to make two Back to the future movies together and they'll be released a year apart. "Oh Christ, the first one was great, but whats gunna happen? Are they going to go to the future and spend two films saving his kids. This will suck arse!" ......Well that's all I ever fucking see when I come here. I read scoops that they are making films and the only info they have is from a set that will more than likely only be used for one, yes ONE. See O-N-E scene and they think it's the entire film and therefore, it will be complete and utter shite! Well i got news for you guys. Just because you have no imagination doesn't mean you need come here and sprout off about it. No one cares what you think. Jesus, ever hear of posituve thinking? The world is such a nicer place. Instead of 'Oh no, they're making another MIB." or "I loved the first one, why can't they leave it be.' How bout you try this, smile and go wide eyed ad tell everyone. "they're making another MIB. cool eh.' Now go back to your Celebrity porn and please, try not to hurt yourself, you may discover that there are real women out there who'll take care of it for you. You just have to loose the attitude!
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