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Friday,
October 20, 2006:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/20/outlander-film.html
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Film production
brings Vikings back to Newfoundland [VIDEO] A millennium or
so after Vikings reached Newfoundland shores, dozens
of imitators have been walking the beaches of a Newfoundland harbour. The film
Outlander — a science-fiction thriller about a group of ninth-century Vikings
who encounter an alien monster — has been shooting several sequences around
Lark Harbour, in the Bay of Islands on
Newfoundland's west coast. "It really
has that feel [with] the rocky cliffs and kind of mythic mountains and
spectacular scenery that we want," said Don Carmody,
an executive producer of the film. "Maybe it
doesn't look exactly like Norway, but we didn't want Norway, or we would have
gone there," said Carmody, a veteran of
Canadian-based film production whose recent credits include Chicago, Silent
Hill and Lucky Number Slevin. The Bay of
Islands, with moss-draped hills and fjord-like waterways, is providing the
backdrop for several scenes, including a Viking funeral, complete with a
corpse-laden ship that is set on fire. Don Carmody, an executive producer of Outlander, said the
filmmakers were drawn to the scenery of Newfoundland's west coast. Outlander, which
has Passion of the Christ star Jim Cavaziel in a
lead role, will feature about 150 local residents as extras. They were
outfitted with beards, wigs and Viking costumes. Production
assistant Sarah Jene described the costumes as the
most elaborate she has seen on a background cast. "They
brought a bunch of costumes over from Iceland, and everything else was
custom-made," she said. "You can see
everything, from the real furs that are draped all about them and lining
their boots. Each and every one of them is totally unique." Filming in the
Bay of Islands was scheduled to conclude Friday. The crew then moves to
Halifax for about 10 weeks of shooting. Outlander, which
will be distributed by the Weinstein Co., is expected to be released in late
2007. The set was built
about 500 kilometres south of L'Anse aux Meadows,
which was proven in the 1960s to be an actual Norse settlement, dating from
about AD 1,000. It was designated as a United Nations world heritage site in
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