Random Developments

Yes, I’m a little late. One week ago yesterday, they apparently finished the filming of the “Ghost Rider” movie in the Melbourne CBD. As far as I know, filming continues in other parts of Victoria and New South Wales, as well as in other parts of Melbourne.

For the last day of shooting, Little Lonsdale Street was closed for almost 48 hours (Saturday and Sunday) and transformed into a war zone: overturned cars, burned buildings, smoke, melted asphalt… the works. This seems to be the sequence from the scene filmed a few days earlier (Wed. night), which had a motorbike going down the street, followed by all the parked cars and store fronts exploding one after the other. Yes, they did the explosions right there; very cool, for lack of a better word.

The scenes filmed on Sunday, then, showed what the street looked like after the rider went by; a “morning after” scene. There were Texas police cars and bikes all around, as well as firetrucks (from Melbourne, with Texas signs pasted over the original lettering), news vans and CSI cars. An assortment of cops and fire fighters were at hand and busily “studying” the damage.

A few pictures of the action follow; they were taken from our 6th floor window, as we couldn’t really get any closer to the set. We got to see Nicolas Cage walking up the street (and then riding down the street) in front of our building when we went downstairs to try to see things from a different angle; the production crew didn’t let us take pictures from there, though.

See the photos at Flickr.com

In my other blog (in Portuguese), you can also see pictures of the set while still under construction, and some images of the night scenes filmed earlier in the month.

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