This Week in the Mercury
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Film BRENDAN FRASER WATCH 2009! BRENDAN FRASER IS FLIPPING CARS IN FRONT OF MARY'S CLUB.
Posted by Erik Henriksen on Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 9:55 AM
Mercury Food Editor Patrick Coleman, who for some reason can't be bothered to take pictures of things that are IMMENSELY INTERESTING, just called in to report that in front of Mary's Club, it appears that the production of the Untitled Crowley Project has flipped a car over, presumably for filming purposes. Says Coleman:
I don't know if it was for a commercial or the Brendan Fraser movie? But I don't know why they'd put a car on its roof for a commercial... but yeah. Right in front of Mary's Club!
In related news, Patrick Coleman apparently goes to Mary's Club at 9:30 on weekday mornings.
UPDATE: Patrick Coleman just arrived at the Mercury office, where he was promptly ordered to go back to Mary's Club, and take some goddamn pictures this time.
UPDATE TWO, 10:22 AM: Patrick just got back, sadly shaking his head as he entered the office. "It was not the Brendan Fraser thing," he said, shamefully. "They are fooling us. It was that show Leverage, which also shoots here?"
No one cares about Leverage.
"Hey, will you use this line, though?" Patrick asked as I began to blog. "You ready? Okay! 'How do you flip over a car? Leverage!' Eh? Eh?"
In related news, Patrick Coleman is no longer employed by the Portland Mercury.
UPDATE THREE, 11:15 AM: After the jump, feast your eyes Patrick's photos of the burning car.
BAM! Suck it, car!
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I have a small office/studio space a block or two from there, and last night all of the parking spaces in the area (for something like a 3 block radius) were blocked off with official city meter tents/signs for yesterday and today, from 6-7pm, with the purpose "film" printed on them.
The parking attendant at the garage under O'Bryant Square told me he had heard that filmmakers were going to blow up a car.
There was no actual filming activity in the area yesterday, as far as I could tell... just a parking mess.
I wonder how much it cost the film crew to reserve all those parking spaces downtown? (I do hope it at least cost them the equivalent loss in meter revenue.)
Maybe they're shooting an adaptation of Erik's 'Warriors' comic. Check it out!
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/040913-War…
Word has reached us at the Merc that they have blown up the car! I was at lunch.
While they were on Broadway blowing up the car, they still had multiple blocks of Park barricaded from parking -- with no filming going on, preventing me from legitimately using the freight entrance to my building for the 2nd day in a row.
Minor correction... it wasn't Leverage, it was a Harrison Ford/Timothy Dalton movie.
Carry on.
re: Han Solo and Encino Man blow up a car
Why would a movie with this plot, "A drama centered on the efforts of John and Aileen Crowley to find a researcher who might have a cure for their two children's rare genetic disorder" have car explosions?
The more you know... the less stupid things you say.
So that's what was fucking traffic up. Exciting.
I was there on my lunch break...there were director's chairs that said "Leverage" sorry folks!
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