I am off to Hollywood to make a movie. I will see you again in a week.

"LaBeouf & Caruso Give The Eagle Eye

Shia LaBeouf is the hot ticket right now. Sure I still haven't figured out how to say his name correctly even though I've been told several times, but I'd still trade places right now with him in a second.

The Transformers and Indy 4 guy is now set to star in Eagle Eye which reteams him with Disturbia director D.J. Caruso. Since the Rear Window remake grossed 80 million dollars this year everyone took notice and now Shia and D.J. are looking to make some more movie magic.

Eagle Eye will star LaBeouf as a young slacker whose overachieving twin brother has died mysteriously. When the young man returns home, both he and a single mother find they have been framed as terrorists. Forced to become members of a cell that has plans to carry out a political assassination, they must work together to extricate themselves.

The script was written by Dan McDermott who had scribed it based on a original idea by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg wanted to direct himself but finds himself too busy with that Indiana Jones 4 thing. Hillary Seitz (Insomnia) is working on the rewrite."

I am back in a manner of speaking. It was great fun filling for the movie Eagle Eye. If you want to do that work but are not a citizen of the US you will need a work visa or other permit.

I am catching up at work right now so I can head back to LA later this week. I got a call from casting for the new Star Trek movie. This is for an interview. I am not in yet but I am getting closer.

I have not had time to catch up on the post here yet. There is one more ship model built but no time to upload it yet. I will post more as or if it happens with Paramount and me.

I'm so going to watch that movie if you're in it ken!

Ahh... We would finally get a glimpse of another face. So far the only one anyone has ever seen, except in person, is what? Mstrobel or was it someone else?

you obviously missed the nice jig-living-in-a-mess photo-of-yours thread here in the forums. Try search for "frodo" here. you sure roll on the floor laughing at the findings .

Started looking through the topic. Didn't see a picture of you in there Mal.

LOL yes I remember Frodo...seeing as I made him.

From what I remember there's a picture of me in that thread too...

*Edit - yep, i'm there. Page 20 of the thread is the best one of me.

You may get a glimpse of me in Eagle Eye first. That is out in August. I get knocked down by a principle actress, featured and name character in the film, as she goes my in a mad rush. If I see it is not cut from the film I can point it out to you in August. When this happens in filming they call you a featured extra. Suddenly there is one happy extra and the other seven hundred and ninety nine resent you for your good luck.

No call from casting on the February shoot yet. I have now submitted on a March shoot as well. This new one calls for aliens with protectors in the makeup. Please please let it happen. I can not tell you how bad I feel about not being able to drive over to Burbank for the first interview offer this last Friday. Talking to others in the loop the interview means measuring you for a costume once they see you are like your pictures and not psychotic.

I am on the road again on business. Do not know if I will be online at all until next Wednesday.

Back on the 10th I got a call from Natasha at casting for the Star Trek movie to interview the next day. At that time I had an obligation for one more day with Dreamworks working on Eagle Eye. I let the interview go after being told there would be more interviews the next week. No I learn that was just a way to get me off the phone so they could call someone to take my place. This made me bitter until I read about this: (I like to think he took my spot in the film)

"Dr. Randy Pausch is a highly respected and honored professor of Computer Science and co-founder of the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He is also a Trek fan. In November Dr. Pausch was offered a role to be in the new Star Trek movie, and it all started with a very special lecture he gave two months earlier.


In September Dr. Pausch gave a lecture titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams,” which was part of what is called “The Last Lecture” series. The series is designed for top lecturers around the country to impart what they feel are their most important life lessons, as if it were their last. What made Dr. Paush’s lecture special was that it really was his last. A year before his lecture Dr. Paush was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. But to see Professor Pausch’s humor-filled talk one would never know that he has been told that he only has months to live. The inspirational lecture was given to just 400 students, but it quickly went ‘viral’ on the Internet. Soon Dr. Paush was getting world-wide media coverage including The Today Show, ABC News, and even Oprah. This video from the Wall Street Journal summarizes the lecture and the subsequent coverage…

Apparently one of the people who was inspired was J.J. Abrams. In November on his personal health blog, Dr. Paush announced that he was contacted by the Star Trek director with the following email:

Dear Randy –

Hi there — I’m JJ Abrams, director of the new Star Trek movie. I read about you and your condition, and ALSO your affinity for things Trek.

So, I just wanted to put the invitation out there — that if you had any desire to be in the film (can’t promise you role as CAPTAIN, but… we could do SOMETHING!), it would be my honor and pleasure.

The last thing I want to do is intrude, so feel free not to reply — but I wanted to make sure you knew that, if you are willing and able, the door is wide open.

I hope that your treatments are going well and that we get to meet one day.

Best,
JJ

After being assured it wasn’t a friend pulling a joke, Dr. Paush was off to LA for his big film debut. On his site he writes of his experience:

I got a custom-made Star Trek uniform and my own station on the bridge, where I had lots of buttons and controls. I even got a LINE!!!!

In addition to publicly thanking JJ Abrams, I just wanted to say what an incredibly egoless and cool guy he was. We chatted a little bit between takes, and he is so tech-savvy (and I’m not saying that *just* because he knew all about Alice!). Anyway, it was a truly magical experience.

TrekMovie.com has confirmed that Dr. Paush will indeed appear in the new Star Trek. Hopefully a year from today Dr. Paush will be able to see his work at the premiere of the new film. In a recent blog Dr. Paush writes that his latest chemotherapy treatments are working, but notes that his long term prognosis is unchanged. But his work will live on. His lectures have been made available copyright free by the university and late last month it was announced that Hyperion Books will be publishing a book based on Dr. Paush’s last lecture."

I'll definitely give it a look

Regards Wolfe