SUBMITTED BY Scooby
September 30, 2002 — The New Zealand Herald has published an article, which details set construction for The Last Samurai, now taking place in New Zealand:
Builders in Taranaki have been constructing a Japanese village for the shoot, which is scheduled to last 12 weeks from mid-January. Mt Taranaki will stand in for Mt Fuji.
The production crew for The Last Samurai is likely to be a similar size to that for another big-budget Hollywood film, Vertical Limit, which employed just over 100 overseas crew and an equal number of locals.
The producers considered bringing a cruise ship into Port Taranaki to accommodate crew, actors and extras.
Harbourmaster Ray Barlow confirmed that there had been talk of this - using cruise ships for accommodation is not uncommon in the film industry - but he believed the idea had been rejected
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(Thanks to Dark Horizons) |
