Filmmaker Guillermo Arriaga has had his hand in some very fine movies, from Babel to The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. His latest directing effort is The Burning Plain, starring Charlize Theron (Wee Britain!), Joaquim de Almeida (HE WILL KILL YOU), and Kim Basinger (um… not much to say here, really? Vicki Vale?).

Anyway: The Burning Plain is set in Portland, will be released sometime in 2008, and is currently filming in Portland and Lincoln City. (In fact, it’s filming about two feet from where Untraceable filmed a few months back.) If you want to gawk at some Hollywood-style action, it sounds like they’ll be wrapping up their last day of Portland shooting tomorrow morning in NW Portland, roundabouts the NW waterfront and Naito Parkway. Just FYI: If you do go looking for some filmmaking action, you might want to keep your snide comments about a certain sci-fi movie to yourself, wiseass. The future is flux, indeed.