As the season 3 finale hinted, the boys head to Northern Ireland. Good to see Titus Welliver back. And more Lem! Hopefully Stephen King’s cameo will brief. Really looking forward to this:
Minor spoilers for season 3:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....narchy-fx.html
•The Belfast story line is so crucial that the show will shoot second-unit material there twice during the course of Season 3 production, and the show's crew has also constructed an outdoor Belfast street a block away from the show's main Los Angeles set. Several indoor sets for the Belfast scenes have also been built in L.A.
•"I’m not out to make some sort of political statement about the IRA and Northern Ireland and the Loyalists and Republic," Sutter said. "To me, it’s like the [American] outlaw community is in the show -- it’s backdrop. It’s really this conflict between these two men [i.e., Jimmy O and the priest]... They are living outside the box and it’s really mirroring a lot of the stuff that went on last season with Jax and Clay. It’s really all about character and that dynamic. And what happens is, the baby sort of becomes the pawn in all of that
•Titus Welliver, whose family also has roots in Belfast, will be back for eight episodes as the intimidating Jimmy O'Phelan. Yes, Welliver is another "Deadwood" vet.
And a fascinating interview:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/sm...ire-and-beyond
Kurt Sutter: It really is, you know. Because we only get bits and pieces of it. Over here it’s about Freedom, and as Americans we go, ‘YEAAAAAAAH FREEDOM!’ We’re clueless.
I do as much research as I need to do to tell a story. I don’t like to over research it because I think sometimes when you become beholden to some of that research. It puts you in a box.
Again another lesson I learned from Shawn Ryan was that you always do enough research to keep it real, without doing enough to put us in a box.
We talked to a significant amount of people who had loose affiliations with the IRA and were raised in Belfast, and there are very strong opinions on either side of the fence. We talked to members of the Belfast film council that we were working with. They were fantastic people, who are ultimately employees of the Queen, and they were very clear and went out of there way several times to inform us and remind us that the true IRA are terrorists. And that they’ve done some heinous things.
One gentleman went into detail for about ten minutes. On the nature of those heinous acts. I think he as we’re talking here felt that as Americans we had this broad point of view that was not based in fact. I kept trying to remind him that I’m not out to glamorize. I’m really just telling stories and once again. That’s the backdrop of it.
We’re using that outlaw component to create the tension and the stakes for what’s happening between two characters.
Minor spoilers for season 3:
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune....narchy-fx.html
•The Belfast story line is so crucial that the show will shoot second-unit material there twice during the course of Season 3 production, and the show's crew has also constructed an outdoor Belfast street a block away from the show's main Los Angeles set. Several indoor sets for the Belfast scenes have also been built in L.A.
•"I’m not out to make some sort of political statement about the IRA and Northern Ireland and the Loyalists and Republic," Sutter said. "To me, it’s like the [American] outlaw community is in the show -- it’s backdrop. It’s really this conflict between these two men [i.e., Jimmy O and the priest]... They are living outside the box and it’s really mirroring a lot of the stuff that went on last season with Jax and Clay. It’s really all about character and that dynamic. And what happens is, the baby sort of becomes the pawn in all of that
•Titus Welliver, whose family also has roots in Belfast, will be back for eight episodes as the intimidating Jimmy O'Phelan. Yes, Welliver is another "Deadwood" vet.
And a fascinating interview:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/sm...ire-and-beyond
Kurt Sutter: It really is, you know. Because we only get bits and pieces of it. Over here it’s about Freedom, and as Americans we go, ‘YEAAAAAAAH FREEDOM!’ We’re clueless.
I do as much research as I need to do to tell a story. I don’t like to over research it because I think sometimes when you become beholden to some of that research. It puts you in a box.
Again another lesson I learned from Shawn Ryan was that you always do enough research to keep it real, without doing enough to put us in a box.
We talked to a significant amount of people who had loose affiliations with the IRA and were raised in Belfast, and there are very strong opinions on either side of the fence. We talked to members of the Belfast film council that we were working with. They were fantastic people, who are ultimately employees of the Queen, and they were very clear and went out of there way several times to inform us and remind us that the true IRA are terrorists. And that they’ve done some heinous things.
One gentleman went into detail for about ten minutes. On the nature of those heinous acts. I think he as we’re talking here felt that as Americans we had this broad point of view that was not based in fact. I kept trying to remind him that I’m not out to glamorize. I’m really just telling stories and once again. That’s the backdrop of it.
We’re using that outlaw component to create the tension and the stakes for what’s happening between two characters.
