Contents ALL THE INCENTIVE YOU NEED THE LINE 01 THREAD 04 Cyborg Assasins Drive Ducatis 18 The Cuff is in the Calling Wonderland EP Jeanne Allgood Get an up-close look at a new discusses making Terminator: generation of artists whose work Salvation, a tale of mad machines will not just be associated with and fery humans, at Albuquerque being Native American or from the Dear Readers, Studios. Southwest, but will be seen as having national and even international This is the third installment of Boom the By Ellen Berkovitch Albuquerque Film guide, a lot to report appeal. to you about, an issue of past present and future. THE LINE 02 By Heidi Ernst We get you back out of the highway with Dennis Hopper and the 40 year 08 Bill Richardson and the reunion of Easy Rider and launch right Sundance Kid into the future with the executive producer of the Terminator: Salvation, Sundance has found a second home. 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I agree with McG he’s the most hands clamp and vise onto vulnerable Terminators have been decimating humanity of the government —- with those of Allgood described as “perfect,” because of in New Mexico allowed us to create that credible actor of his generation, and he human bodies, shredding them like paper. with their malevolent plan and insatiable his conscience. The resistance leader the serendipity of New Mexico landscapes environment so beautifully. Even fying in really brought a gravitas to the role.” Yet as a Resistance helicopter rises out of violence for a long time now. Resistance remains above all a man who voices and nearby locations ftting the movie’s for the frst time we all realized it was the The legendary McG, for whom Allgood’s the fray of a frefght, twisted steel skeletons fghter Kyle Reese (Anton Yelchin) —-the what distinguishes human beings from theme. perfect place to shoot the movie. So we is “producing partner” at McG’s Sony- sprawl in disarray across the burned-out character who back in 1984, the year of the machines: ethics. And, she added, with credit to the were thrilled.” based production shingle, Wonderland ground. Some of the enemy have been frst Terminator, was sent from the future In May Terminator: Salvation swept multitalented New Mexico crew base This Terminator, tagged “Salvation,” is the Sound & Vision, directed this new felled. to protect Sarah Connor against the cyborg the box offce. Wonderland executive that choreographed such a complex frst to star Christian Bale as hero of the Terminator. Allgood has been McG’s The year is 2018, the endgame of a long and assassins, led by Arnold Schwarzenegger producer Jeanne Allgood, interviewed production into six stages at Albuquerque Resistance. Explained Allgood: “I came producer since Wonderland recruited painful war. Powerful Terminators, those —-is still alive. Reese is now a young man, in June’s second week by phone at her Studios: “We relied a lot on New Mexico to this picture as a huge Terminator fan.” her from Dreamworks in 2005 (She had fearsome killers of the uber-control apparatus with a mute black child as his sidekick. California offce, declared, “We were crew who were all fantastic.” (Her brother sneaked her in to the R-rated been there two years, and worked on Wes Skynet, zip around on Ducatis. They use John Connor (Christian Bale), leader of the number one worldwide for the weekend. “We had been looking at Budapest,” said picture, her frst, when she was 13.) Craven’s Red Eye and Dreamer, with their terrifyingly fexible steel limbs to pop resistance, has become Sarah’s grown son. It That’s a pretty good feeling.” Allgood, “ but ultimately we really wanted “So for me the idea of Christian Bale Kurt Russell.) And she sees her creative out of riverbeds and swoop through ravines, www.miscpubs.com 5 CABQFilm_1125x1125.qxd 7/21/09 2:49 PM Page 1 THE the City of Albuquerque Film Office presents in Spectacular CINECOLOR LINE 01 partnership with McG as a fertile one: He Another location for the movie turned out and a three-column-wide (in the credit literally hit the ground. When she got to my really ratcheted up the ambitions of what the to be a road that cast and crew drove daily to roll) corps of electricians, gaffers, riggers, offce, she asked me, ‘what kind of world are movie could be, said Allgood. get to Albuquerque Studios. carpenters, welders all had to be put to you people working in?’” Allgood laughs. Given that this fourth Terminator is the frst “We built a gas station on Bobby Foster work, said Allgood —-and were great, she Proof of verisimilitude indeed, from one said, with the one caveat the production "-#626&326&45"33*/( of the series not to star Schwarzenegger, Road, where Kyle and Marcus (Sam experienced in Kirkuk. had to import some welders from LA, as the movie director and executive producer Worthington) show up and meet with And, for Allgood, proof that big-screen #3&",*/(#"% had choices to make —- of which choosing survivors from the Resistance living at an New Mexico welders were less familiar with the demands of having to re-weld steel movies still live up to their cred. That is part Albuquerque, according to Allgood, was enclave at the 711. We all drove that road of what she says she likes about going to */1-"*/4*()5 the frst good decision. Allgood related her every single day. On one of those drives we embankments blown up over 25 successive takes. work every day, with McG, with whom she’s $3"4)4&"40/580 respect for how, with the frst Terminator in realized, our location manager said —-why been professionally paired for the last fve 1984, James Cameron framed up the evil don’t we build it here? It was a matter of, On frst seeing the massive Skynet in years. the plan of cyborg global domination. But he ‘wow it’s so close by.’ But it wound up being the movie, a viewer will notice Marcus, 5&3.*/"5034"-7"5*0/ didn’t have the budget, said Allgood, that a great stretch of road we could use.” clambering to get in.