29th Mar 2006
Update on The Hottest State: The Rough Cut Survived the Fire!
So, since my earlier report about the fire in the post-production offices of Ethan Hawke’s upcoming film The Hottest State, I am delighted to update with the news that the rough cut and much of the equipment involved with the project seems to have survived the fire intact! (So did some lucky guy’s massive CD collection.) (BTW, I hedge, because this is a second-hand report and I’m not an insurance adjuster, so if you really have a need to know, don’t take my word for it.)
My wife just visited the building with some of the rest of the production team where they were overjoyed to find that the fire was concentrated in the front side of the building, while the editing offices were at the back. Soot and grime, but all the editing work of the past few weeks was recovered.
Yay!
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I noticed you took no note of the irony involved. The Hottest State catches on fire.
This has to be my second favorite story of movie irony. The all-time fav was for the movie Anaconda. It showed in Anaconda, Montana where there happened to be a carbon monoxide leak from the furnace. Fortunately, the audience survived with minor injuries. The movie’s tagline was, “It’ll Take your Breath Away.”