THE MIGHTY BEAN
SEAN BEAN, Sheffield's Best !
Photo album
DVD Released !
These are the first caps, mostly made by Pendragon (thanks !), mixed with a few of my own. Click twice to enlarge.
Source : http://dvd.themanroom.com/
February 23, 2007
Universal Studios Home Entertainment has announced 'The Hitcher' starring Sophia Bush, and Sean Bean will be released May 1 on Combo Format HD DVD, day-and-date with the film's standard DVD debut. This is the second new theatrical film Universal is releasing on HD DVD May 1.
'The Hitcher' will be presented in widescreen 2.4:1 1080p video and Dolby Digital Plus 5.1 audio. Extra features will be located on the standard DVD side of the disc and include deleted scenes and a quartet of featurettes.
'The Hitcher' on Combo Format HD DVD will carry an SRP of $39.98. Check back later for cover art and pre-order links.
New pictures
Three great new movie stills, thanks to Alysen.
All images copyright © 2007
Rogue Pictures (Focus Features)
screencaps from The Hitcher Clips
From the IESB site. Thanks to Dani Chatterley ! Click for full size.
Some The Hitcher pictures
A few pics from the The Hitcher website :
All images copyright © 2007
Rogue Pictures (Focus Features)
The Hitcher News
The Hitcher website is up : The Hitcher Website
Movie Poster, source : The Compleat Sean Bean
This way for the first Hitcher trailer : Trailer
Wonderful caps made from it by Pudge ! Click for full size !
The Hitcher
Dave Meyers Interview on The Hitcher
Aug 21, 2006
It has been all but impossible to avoid the music videos and commercials of Dave Meyers since the late 90?s, so it's a good thing that they're skillfully and artfully directed. Meyers has worked on over 200 videos, including Kid Rock?s Cowboy, Missy Elliott?s Get Ur Freak On, and Lil' Jon & the East Side Boyz?s Roll Call. He recently directed Pink?s Stupid Girls, which was nominated for a MTV Best Pop Video Music Award. Meyers is also taking his first steps into the world of studio movies with his update of the 80?s horror classic The Hitcher. I had a chance to speak with him while he was on set.
The Hitcher
But how can you not love Sean Bean terrorizing some wide-eyed C. Thomas Howell type? Ok, I purely speculating here that they've changed genders this time around (admittedly this is guesswork from the producers announcing female casting first. Other folks have indicated that a couple may be stalked). There better be 'girl-ripping' because god knows that image/implication alone made this film a cult item.
While Sean Bean doesn't have the pure psychotic face (it's those eyes) that Rutger Hauer used to good effect in the original, but damn if the man doesn't have practice playing slimey bad types. He has done at least a dozen of these since the first Brosnan Bond flick. At one time, the only draw for the remake of the Hitcher was to get a nice deluxe special edition DVD of the original, but now...hmmm.
[Source: The Hollywood Reporter]
Adventures as an Extra: "The
Hitcher"
posted by Heath Allyn at 12:47 PM on
July 12, 2006
Last week I got the call to
be an extra on "The Hitcher". They wanted me to be a paramedic. Being
the considerate guy I am I told them that I was pretty sure they had my out of
date headshot where I was 60 pounds heavier and since I recently shaved my head
for a role I wanted to send them a current snapshot to make sure they still
wanted me. I emailed the snapshot and got the call back that they did still
want to use me, but I would instead be a prisoner. Fitting, since I called this
my "Prison Break" hair style, but kind of a bummer since I think the
paramedic ended up getting used a lot more and got some good camera time. I'm
not sure why they changed me since the paramedic didn't look all that
drastically different from me.
The location was down in
San Marcos, about a 45 minute drive away, so I got up at 5:00 a.m. to be on set
by 6:00 a.m. I was told that I'd be a "new prisoner" being brought in
after having just been arrested so I should bring 3 changes of clothes for
wardrobe to pick from. The location was the Hays County Law enforcement center.
It was interesting filming there since they obviously couldn't shut the place
down, and periodically everything had to stop while an inmate was brought in or
taken out. I parked my car and hauled all my stuff across to the catering tent
they had set up outside where we'd be hanging out. I signed in and got some
good food for breakfast from the table. After a few minutes I was taken to
wardrobe. I told them I was a "New Prisoner", but instead of keeping
me in some of my clothes, they put me in the black and white striped prisoner
clothes. Hair and make up looked me over and gave their approval, and I was off
to the tent to wait. And wait. And wait.
For anyone who doesn't
know, being an extra is 99% waiting usually. You may wait all day and never
even get used, so be prepared. I encounter so many extras who have a bad
attitude when they end up getting treated not so well, or get bored. Well get
used to it. Extras are cattle. You are a prop. You are the absolute lowest step
on the ladder. In fact, you're more like the floor mat under the ladder. You
may get used, you may not. Even if you do, your scene may never make it into
the film, and even if it does, you probably won't be visible in it. The people
who enjoy being an extra enjoy it because they just like being a part of the
whole process. You sometimes get to meet some cool fellow extras or some cool
people on the crew. If you have a laid back, casual attitude and just want to
make very little money, generally get fed fairly well and be peripherally
involved on a movie then do it. If you have anything other than the most tiny
expectations, you will be disappointed.
About halfway through the
day, they finally brought some of us on set. There were extras as uniformed
policemen, detectives, prisoners in blue prison clothes, and prisoners in black
and white stripes (like me). My first job on set was to walk by a door way
holding a broom. The guy playing the paramedic got to enter right into the
scene I think. Bah! It could have been me! Anyway, after one take, someone
didn't like the prison stripes look as they thought I looked more like I should
be in "O' Brother Where Art Thou". I actually think they had a point.
I was released to go wait in the tent some more. At least they had some big air
conditioner blowing cool air through two huge tubes into the tent. It helped,
but you could only really feel it if you were right in front of tubes (though
they did blow pretty far and powerfully). I waited, I napped, I read. Some of
the other various extras got used (police and detectives mostly). Ants would
periodically bite my slippered feet so I decided to put my own shoes back on
until I was needed. Eventually at about 7:00 p.m. we were released to go home. I
changed, got my papers signed and drove the 45 minutes back home where I
collapsed in a tired passed out heap on the couch. Eventually I mustered
enough energy to go to bed.
The next day my call time
wasn't until 7:00 a.m. I got up at 6:00 a.m. and made the drive back to set. Once
again I brought my clothes just in case. Sadly I went to get breakfast and they
were out of eggs so I ate some cereal instead. When I went to wardrobe, I
explained that I was told I should be a "New Prisoner" with my own
clothes so I brought them again. Wardrobe said they like me in the striped
better so once again I got all Coen Brothered up and went to the Tent of
Eternal Waiting.
We all taken over to the
garage area outside the main building where filming was going on. This was
waiting area stage 2. Again someone decided that they didn't like the stripes
and sent us striped people to get changed. I went back to wardrobe and was give
some prison blues, but the only shoes they had left were 2 sizes two big. They
were slip on slipper type shoes so we put some insoles in them, and stuffed the
toes with paper towels. I went back to join the others where several other
noticed my clown-like shoes. Ah well. While waiting, I noticed some of the cast
chairs. One said "Sean Bean". Wait...Sean Bean? Like Boromir in
"Lord of the Rings" Sean Bean? Sean Bean from
"Equilibrium"? Yup, that was him. A few times he came out between
takes to have a smoke and read from a huge book which I believe was titled
"Disciples". Well that was pretty cool. Standing mere feet from the
man who took all those hefty orc arrows in the chest. After a good amount of
waiting here they decided they didn't need us and sent us back to the tent.
Lunch came and went, and as
the afternoon wore on we were again summoned. The paper towels weren't really
working as toe stuffing, so I devised a clever method where I used my own socks
half-way on my feet with the other half acting as stuffing. More waiting, but
also more Sean bean sighting. Eventually they again sent us back to the tent. As
it was approaching 7:00 p.m. we were once again brought back onto the set.This
time we actually went inside and got used a little. Pretty much no chance of
any of us being recognized if we can be seen at all. a little while later (and
after more Sean Bean close encounters) we went back to the tent. Finally at
about 8:00 or so we were let go.
This whole experience has
made me wonder if I should stop doing extra work. I pretty much did this only
because I needed the money. I have a resume full of acting experience as a lead
performer so extra work has no benefit for me there. It's really more taunting
for someone like me. You are so close to everything you want to be doing and
yet you are still on the outside, not really a part of it. For me it's
double-edged too, because not only is there the acting angle, but I'm trying to
really make a career out of film and television crew work, so I see all these people
on the crew and wish I was working too. I at least got to talk to a few of them
over lunch about how they got there, but man it's frustrating to know what you
want to be doing and not be doing it. I love just being there on the set, but I
really think that's it may be more disheartening for me in that capacity than
it is enjoyable.
