Okay, either I’m completely losing my mind or Uwe Boll has unleashed a horde of clones that’re simultaneously roaming the Earth, executing their own part of a plan that’ll overwhelm humanity with a non-stop barrage of junky movies. I mean, did I not JUST post THIS STORY about Uwe Boll in South Africa, shooting TUNNEL RATS?!
I guess while the crew of that movie sleeps, Uwe has flown over to Canada to work on BLOODRAYNE 2: DELIVERANCE (no Uwe, using the name of a good movie in your title doesn’t make us forget about the bad one). BR2 is a sequel to his apparently-profitable-enough vampire flick BLOODRAYNE, and it now stars Natassia Malthé as the title character and takes place in the Wild West, where the half-vampire hottie comes across Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.
Of course, this being a Uwe Boll production, there’s a life-threatening explosion and a half-frozen actress to keep the crew on their toes. You gotta hand it to the man, while most directors would want to keep such things a secret, Uwe dishes on it like a gossip columnist.
Take a gander at Miss Malthé before settling in for a nice dose of Uwe-blog.
PRODUCTION BLOG OF BLOODRAYNE II
aka BLOODRAYNE II: DELIVERANCE
Because of the great success of BLOODRAYNE DVD sale, I had decided to shoot a second part: BLOODRAYNE II: DELIVERANCE, sort of BloodRayne in the Wild West which is planned to be a straight to DVD .
In Winter 2006/2007 we started to shoot in „Bordertown” which is a little Wild West city for movie productions approximately 1 ½ driving hours east of Vancouver. At that time of the year it is extremely inexpensive to rent that facility for film productions as nobody else wants to shoot a movie outthere at the same time. The town is extremely down-and-out, many film productions left their marks, due to the bad autumn weather it was also very muddy, dirty and cold. There was an uncountable number of potholes on the road to the studio, most of them deeper than approximately 80 cm, so we forced to drive very slow and careful around them.
Canadian actress Natassia Malthé played our new BloodRayne because Kristanna Loken had no time to join our second production. Funny as it might sound, Kristanna was shooting a TV-series in Vancouver at the same time. Natassia played already in movies like ELECTRA, SKINWALKERS or DEAR OR ALIVE. She looks great and is perfectly in shape. The camera simply loves her, a fact well known to her. But our final results are magnificent. Michael Paré played our “Pat Garrett” and Zack Ward our bad guy “Billy The Kid”. As there were not many other productions going on in Vancouver, we had the chance to use some more of the actors and actresses from our former productions POSTAL or SEED. But only those that really managed to convince us with their acting talent and dedication were casted again.
On the first production day the whole Western town was covered with snow, so we were forced to shoot with that snow for the first three production days. On day four everything started to melt away and we were forced to re-shoot some of the continuity scenes again. As most of our production was happing at night (Remember it’s a Vampire movie, they do not like sunlight that much) I left my appartment with my dogs at 02:00 p.m., drove to our set and returned with them at 06:00 hrs a.m. Due to the locations and the muddy senery both of my dogs were covered with a thick layer of dirt each day. So I was forced to clean them every day with a water before they were able to return to the appartment. Laura is not afraid to jump in every bigger mud hole although even when it is cold and wintertime, but she simply hates to be cleaned, scrubbed and dried.
In production week two, at 01:00 a.m.; most of team members were enjoying their midnight lunches, a gas heater in the trainstation of the Western town all of a sudden caught fire and exploded a little later. During the incident three persons were working the trainstation, but they managed to run outside and warn all of us on time. The trainstation was used as storage capacity, so there were twenty full gas cartridges of 50 liter each still in the building. The fire brigades with brave Canadian fire fighters on board arrived 30 minutes later with five trucks in total, but stayed away from the fire because of the remaining gas cartriges. It was too dangerous and risky to get closer. So all we could do was watch the whole scenario and the final explosion from a little hill near by. The fire destroyed the complete trainstation, fortunately the wind was on our side and the fire remain on one building and did not jump over on the other buildings.
The following production day had to be cancelled completely and all talents were cancelled too. We had to talk to the police, the fire saftety inspector as well as the insurance. But it was obvious, it was an accident!
The lost production time we made up by re-scheduling the remaining shooting schedules and an increase of the daily work. After all we decided to include the fire into the movie and managed to shoot scenes matching to this change. So our fire catastrophy will be a part of the plot.
Close to the end of the production our lead actress, Natassia Malthé, had to play a scene in the ice-cold water in a lake nearby. Goes without saying we all did understand that she was more than reluctant to play that scene, but the action sequence was important to the overall plot. So after some discussions Natassia finally gave in and played the scene. In the movie she will be unconcious and dragged out of the lake. But for Natassia is was definitely the easier part compared to her stuntdouble. The double had to fall three meters, hit through a layer of ice and dive underneath the remaining ice a short distance through the lake water.
After the final day of the twenty production days we were all very happy that the film is done. We are all so relieved and took a deep breath, only the production of BLACKWOODS and my old BARSCHEL movie were that energy consuming and tough too. While we did BLACKWOODS we also had to shoot in a snowstorm at night. On the Barschel production we had to drive to Geneva which was 1,100 km away, stayed and worked for seven hours and drove back to the studio. Afterall we stayed up for 40 hours without sleep. No one can say my movies are easy going.
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