Il y’a deux semaines le site Bloody Disgusting nous dévoilait le making of incroyablement chaotique du film The Dead en Afrique.

La seconde partie vient de sortir :

Pour les anglophones, vous trouverez une longue interview de leur péripéties sur Dread Central.

Extrait :

Ford said, “Filming in Africa was probably the worst experience of my life. I can’t even explain how tough it was out there. It wasn’t just the fact that it was hot temperatures and dusty which are both terrible things to deal with for the equipment we were using. It’s also incredibly corrupt where we were filming and we looked like walking money to a lot of people there.”

“There were even articles in the paper out there saying in fact that Hollywood had arrived, which didn’t help our situation because we were literally ripped off on every corner. Sometimes we wouldn’t even make it to the location because the police would stop us for some reason or another. Either something was wrong with our vehicle, or our paperwork, even though we had done all the paperwork on a daily basis. They would end up impounding our cars and equipment until we handed over various sums of cash and there were times where we couldn’t get cash into the country fast enough. What’s sad is that this wasn’t money towards production, it was more so that we could stay out of jail,” Ford added.

The writer/director said the police wasn’t even the biggest problem they faced there- malaria and other illnesses almost put the kibosh on the entire production of The Dead.

“Rob Freeman, our lead actor got malaria twice,” explained Ford. “He nearly died even. One day he collapsed on set and started convulsing. The doctor said if he wasn’t treated as soon as he had been, he would have been dead within three days. Rob was on a drip for two weeks, and he’s in almost every scene, so you can only imagine what that does to a filming schedule.”

“The whole crew was getting sick every day, and there were times where Jon and I would be discussing shots in between vomiting. I am actually someone who prides myself on sticking to a schedule and budget, but we had to throw away those ideals on this film. Everyday we had to figure out who would we have available every morning and figuring out from there what we could do, since someone has a fever, someone has typhoid; someone’s being treated for malaria. Being the writer/producer/director, everything sort of feel on me and it was a very difficult time for me because I knew I had to deliver the film, but I think to be honest, we all just kept moving forward because everyone wanted to get the hell out of there as soon as we could,” Ford added.