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Not a Typical Day at Work

Not every day you get to come into work to find a movie being shot across the street, especially in Phoenix.

I came into the client site this morning to find a live crew shooting a scene from the new file “Middle Men” staring Luke Wilson, Robert Forrester and James Caan among others: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1251757/

This picture is from the parking garage directly behind the movie set. They had Monroe street blocked off from Central and backwards, so I was able to squeeze in a few shots from my phone, this being among the better ones. The scene below is in the alley next to a favorite downtown watering hole called Seamus McCaffrey's. On the left, near the edge is Luke Wilson who approaches Robert Forrester who has the trunk of a Cadillac open and is holding a bat. After a few seconds of discussion, Luke Wilson appears to capitulate and then runs off towards stage left.

Middle Men

Apparently, the film is about the beginning of a certain lucrative business that has some roots in Phoenix- go figure.

For those interested in viewing a sequential frame-by-frame sequence of the scene, you can save the following shots to your local machine and use a slide viewer feature to see the action (row 1, left to right, followed by row 2).

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# re: Not a Typical Day at Work

Very cool - by the time I watch this I'll have forgotten about your post until something triggers in the movie and then I'll come back here and make another comment. When do you think that will be? 12 months?
10/21/2008 1:17 PM | Guy Ellis
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