Smoke On The Water

After a quick stint in Los Angeles to fulfil other shooting commitments, Hugh Jackman is now back on the set of Australia joining the cast and crew in Darwin, Northern Territory. But first he made sure to stop and say hello to the hoardes of fans in wait.

Over the last few days Nicole Kidman, Bill Hunter and co have been on location at Stoke’s Hill Wharf shooting additional scenes for Lady Sarah Ashley’s arrival into Darwin. Many reports of alleged near hit and miss incidents with cast and crew members have been floating about. True or not, it does bring to light what a potentially dangerous environment all are in.

Regarding other planned disasters, film location manager Carl Wood says people should not be alarmed if they see smoke billowing out of Darwin’s wharf precinct.

“We’ll be having a fishing boat with flames on it and lots of smoke around,” he said. “The flames are very controllable, they’re non-toxic. We have what we call flame bars on the steel hull of the boat. They’ve welded on these steel bars and we pump propane gas through there.”

sources: NT News, abc.net.au
image: brad fleet

July 9th, 2007