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| | Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2004 - 7:46 am: | |
Sept. 2-Set in O.C. & JWA,OC Register
'Elizabethtown' puts JWA back in the film business for the first time since the 9/11 attacks.
By HEATHER LOURIE IGNATIN
"Elizabethtown" is the first movie to be filmed at John Wayne Airport since before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Paramount Pictures began setting up Tuesday night with props such as American Indian carvings and Pacific Northwest posters, an effort to make John Wayne look like the Portland, Ore., airport.
"It's a source of pride for the county to have one of its major facilities featured in a major motion picture," said George Urch, a deputy airport director. "It won't interrupt up or inhibit any passengers."
Crews shot scenes near the airport's escalators and were expected to film throughout the night. The studio will pay the county $400 a day, though the community payoff from hosting a movie comes in intangibles like name recognition and, perhaps, glamour.
Likewise, the county's biggest airport is adding something to "Elizabethtown," a story of a romance between a flight attendant and a fired businessman directed by Cameron Crowe and starring Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon. "(John Wayne) has style and soul," says Crowe. "It doesn't feel like a weigh station; it feels like a place."
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