A funny thing happened on the way to shooting an action sequence in Canada… The cops bought it!
Filming on Darren Lynn Bousman’s MOTHER’S DAY got halted in Winnipeg when a concerned citizen apparently thought a bank-robbery sequence was the real thing and called the coppers. Can’t a bunch of shady, gun-toting dudes covered in blood do anything without getting hassled?
A few excerpts from the Winnipeg Sun: Someone saw the blood-soaked and gun-toting actors — who were filming scenes for Mother’s Day, which has been shooting locally for a few months — in an old station wagon and, thinking it was the real thing, called city police on a cellphone…
Officers were unaware of the movie shoot and took no chances when they got a report of a person armed with a firearm. About 15 Mother’s Day cast and crew members were present when about eight police cruisers surrounded the station wagon and crew near the vehicle.
“All of a sudden a cop came up and yelled, ‘Put the weapons down!’ ” Matt O’Leary said. “I’ve got (fake) blood all over me and a gun in my hands.”
Well, if anything, it says something about the quality of the flick Bousman is making. If it’s freaking people out in real life, hopefully it’ll translate into something riveting on the screen. To read the entire article about the incident (luckily the cops didn’t shoot anybody), head on over HERE.
MOTHER’S DAY opens in MAY 2010.