Snow Falling On Cedars

Genre: Drama/Thriller.

Studio: Universal Pictures.
Production Company: Unknown.

Project Phase: Greenlighted.

Who's In It: Ethan Hawke; Max von Sydow; Rick Yune; James Cromwell.
Who's Making It: Scott Hicks (Director); Ron Bass (Screenwriter); Richard Vane (Producer); Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall (Executive Producers); based on the novel Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson.

Premise: While covering a sensationalist murder case involving a Japanese-American man, a journalist also tries to keep his own secret safe: the man's wife once had an affair with the journalist.

Release Date: Unknown.

Comments:

None.

Rumors: Unknown.

Scoop Feedback:

January 22, 1998... [Page written in the snow by 'Deadpool'.]

February 7, 1998... Rick Yune will co-star in Scott Hicks' Snow Falling on Cedars. He plays a Japanese-American on trial for the murder of a Washington state fisherman. [Reported by 'Josh the Sandman'.]

Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall (producers of Jurassic Park) are also working on this project. Filming is taking place right now in and around Vancouver, Canada (shooting is taking place in Maple Ridge, a suburb of Vancouver, this week.) [Info courtesy of 'The Hawke Man' and 'cpa'.]

March 4, 1998... James Newton Howard, who recently scored My Best Friend's Wedding, The Devil's Advocate and The Postman will be scoring this picture. [Information provided by 'Scooby'.]

April 16, 1998... For the next few days filming is taking place in Cathlamet, WA (west of Longview, WA). [Thanks to an anonymous friend for the heads up.]

September 22, 1998... In addition to the filming in Washington state, scenes were also shot in Ainsworth and Silverton, British Columbia. A British Columbia ferry there was given a once over to pass for a Washington State Ferry. [Scoop provided by John Griffin]

September 24, 1998... A scooper from British Columbia checks in with info on the filming. "[Cedars w]as filmed in most part, the exteriors, in Greenwood, BC as well as Nelson, New Denver, Ainsworth and other locales in the Kootenays. Also in Port Townsend WA and Cathlamet WA as well as in studio in Vancouver. Most of the downtown core of Greenwood was transformed in nov97-feb98 and filming happened in Feb 98 and apr 98. About half the population of Greenwood was used in filming of certain scenes and it was a truly exciting experience for our town of 800 people."

Wondering what transformed meant, and thinking of cars that turn into Voltron-looking things for some reason, I contacted him back and asked him. He was good enough to respond: "By transformed, it was repainted and new falsefronts to look like a rundown fishing village on San Juan islands of Washington State in the 1940-1950' s. After the filming it was repainted using the traditional colours of the turn of the century as well as leaving many signs and art work as the building owners had wished. The painters and crew did a terrific job. We have no idea how much of the town will actually be seen in "Snow Falling On Cedars", but we were told it is about 20% . Because of El Nino, alot of fake snow had of be brought in usually we would have 2-3' on the ground in Feb but we had very little, and too warm to make artificial. So in brief we had a facelift. In overview, it was a great experience for the town and we would invite another movie to come here." [Special thanks to Ernie Henning for the report]



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