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Location: southern California
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I worked on it for 9 months, we shot most of it in Vancouver, with the corn fields East of there. We also filmed in Paris and Valencia, Spain. I thought the script came together much better than I would have expected. I thought they cast Athena, the young girl robot, very well, the rest, not so much. Its doing really poor in the box office.
We had NO serious accidents, in the early scene where the boy is falling reaching for his jet pack,it was done in one of those air suspension systems where he is suspended above a huge fan, we did failure rate analysis, noise testing, and outfitted the kid with molded ear plugs. Where the Kid was flying he had double redundant life lines.
Flying a Kid was a big deal for the show. The theater, in general, has flown kids for 2,000 years, but we're Disney, it was a big effing deal for us flying a kid. Every rope, pulley, pick point was engineered, tested, logged, inspected and inspected again, and tested again. There was no effing way anyone, especially a kid was going to get injured, in anyway on my watch. One thing I LOVE about Disney, we are first and foremost about kids, especially in TV and Film, let alone our theme parks. We spend an insane amount of money on Safety. You my run down the "corporate rats", (NOTA take notice) but not us.
Last edited by Hugh R; 05-30-2015 at 10:30 PM..
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