Home WebMail Friday, November 1, 2024, 03:24 PM | Calgary | 1.5°C | Regions Advertise Login | Our platform is in maintenance mode. Some URLs may not be available. |
Posted: 2017-01-18T13:50:11Z | Updated: 2017-01-18T13:50:11Z

Woody Harrelson s ambitious upcoming project might just be a total disaster. But a lot of people are working to make sure its not.

Lost in London Live, a comic recollection written by Harrelson himself chronicling a real-life misadventure in the English city, will stream in theaters across the U.S. on Thursday as its filmed live, in one shot, across the pond.

With the help of Fathom Events, a production company responsible for theater showings of live concerts, fine arts performances and sporting events, the movie will be filmed in 14 locations within a two-mile radius in central London. Itll use just one camera, which will need to properly connect to 54 separate receivers throughout the filming in order to transmit footage to audiences.

According to John Rubey, the event companys CEO, around 400 crew members will be on hand to ensure the spectacle which stars Owen Wilson and Willie Nelson alongside Harrelson goes according to plan. But it will be a tough assignment.

For starters, the film is an hour and five minutes long. The single camera that will be used to shoot the movie can only hold an hour and six minutes worth of data, Harrelson has stated. Any filming delays might present technical problems that would be witnessed throughout hundreds of theaters.

But, as Rubey suggested, not knowing what could happen contributes to an energy thats all part of the draw.

Its kind of the same thing that drives sports, Rubey told The Huffington Post about the medium of live film, and thats uncertainty of the outcome.

He added, If you think about Woody, Owen and Willie having something unpredictable happen, it sounds like a lot of fun.