Many weeks ago on that facebook site, I teased that I'd be revealing a sort of life thing in my soon-to-be-released blog. I released said blog, but it was sans reveal! Instead, it was just another tease. No one's been chomping at the bit to find out, because frankly, I'm terrible at keeping life-secrets secret. I've been leaking like a 10-day old balloon. So enough with all of this pretense:
Readers, adoring fans, friends, I'm working on the final leg of the Pittsburgh shoot of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I'm doing anything essential; I'm not. I wasn't picked out of a large group of talented people with incredible résumés. It was that old adage: not what you know, but who you know. Because of my friend Greig (who's coming up to work the weekend, too), I'm going to be one of the many, many, many Additional Production Assistants. What that will equal out to is getting coffee for the coffee-getters. But I'll be doing it for the god-damn Batman! Here's a character that has genuinely been part of my life since...forever? Yeah, forever. My earliest memories are of watching Adam West's Batman with my dad and older sister. Batman's my first TV memory and the first superhero I ever knew. So to say, some 20+ years later, that I got to help out on the best Batman stories to be put to celluloid (and make no bones about it, Nolan's Batman films will go down as such)...words are hard to find. Here's the crossroads of two of my biggest loves: movies and comics. And I'm getting to actively participate. I'm thrilled. I'm stoked. I'm chomping at the bit.
Expect this blog to disappear for a bit (as if it hasn't for all of this month already). I left for a week-long trip to Portland, OR right at the beginning of August that I intend to write about. Now, it's to the set of The Dark Knight Rises. And once I'm done with that, I'm heading down to Raleigh, NC for a week. I promise to share tales of the Dark Knight once I can, even if it's nothing more than, "Yeah, I got to stand in the far-back corner, keeping people from running on set. But I kept them from the god-damn Batman's set."
And so ladyfolk and manfolk, amigos and readers, I'll catch you on the flipside.
cheerio old boy, you're one of the unsung heroes. If you get the chance, make sure you give Nolan one of those encouraging ass-pats just like football coaches do for their players. Maybe throw in a "way to go" while you're at it. I'm sure he'll understand.
ReplyDeleteFunny you should suggest that, because Chris Nolan actually walked past me twice, once with wife/producer Emma Thomas. I was genuinely close enough to pat his ass, but opted not to. Either way, big nerd moment. Very big.
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