A Huge Thank You to Veronica Mars
By Dan Engelhardt producer
One of our actors, Ryan Hansen, has recurring role on the critically acclaimed Veronica Mars. Needless to say this created a fair amount of scheduling conflicts for me because for the most part T.V. Shows do not have the luxury of shifting their production plans – a new episode has to be ready for each week. Consequently, I spent a lot of time moving things around to make sure that when Ryan was available, we were ready to go.
These last few days got really crazy since one of our other actors, Aaron Ashmore, is on Smallville and had one week to spare for us before heading back to Vancouver. We had no choice but to squeeze our schedule and hope that Ryan was available at similar times. On Friday (8/18) I got a call from Ryan’s manager saying that he needed to shoot with Veronica on Tuesday and Thursday of the following week. We had been hoping to shoot with Ryan Monday – Wednesday so this was a huge problem. Normally I would have moved some dates around, but this was the end of our shoot so there was nothing we could add to those days.
I quickly called the producer of Veronica, who is an amazingly nice guy. He informed me that Ryan was shooting Tuesday morning – this we could make work! Ryan would shoot in Palo Alto on Monday night, he would fly down to San Diego in the morning, shoot with Veronica, and fly back to us for a Tuesday night shoot. A huge thank you to Ryan for working with a crazy 48 hours. Problem solved (so we thought)…
On Tuesday afternoon I called down to Howard, the producer of Veronica, to check on Ryan’s wrap time, and received some unfortunate news. He had to shift the days schedule a bit, and Ryan was not going to be wrapped until 8pm. This meant with travel time, he would not be on set in Palo Alto until 10-11pm putting us in a situation where had to rush the day. Still, after talking with Brad and Tony, I felt like we could get it done.
Around 7pm I get a call from Ryan. He was on set in San Diego and concerned that they were not going to wrap by 8pm (fyi: the last flight out of San Diego is at 855 so if he didn’t wrap by then we would lose him for the day). I quickly called Howard who re-confirmed this unfortunate fact. I explained our situation to him, which was if Ryan didn’t shoot with us we were going to have to cut scenes out of the movie. He politely said he would look into the situation, and call me back.
Cut to a few minutes later: Howard calls with his production manager on the line. They have redone the schedule, and pushed Ryan’s scene to another day!!! We were saved… Ryan left set at 8pm, made is 855 flight and arrived on our set at 1045. I owe Howard a huge favor…. moving his tight TV schedule around could not have been easy, and we here at PALO ALTO truly appreciate it. We had a lot to shoot in very little time, but the crew worked fast, and we made it happen. What a way to wrap production.
One of our actors, Ryan Hansen, has recurring role on the critically acclaimed Veronica Mars. Needless to say this created a fair amount of scheduling conflicts for me because for the most part T.V. Shows do not have the luxury of shifting their production plans – a new episode has to be ready for each week. Consequently, I spent a lot of time moving things around to make sure that when Ryan was available, we were ready to go.
These last few days got really crazy since one of our other actors, Aaron Ashmore, is on Smallville and had one week to spare for us before heading back to Vancouver. We had no choice but to squeeze our schedule and hope that Ryan was available at similar times. On Friday (8/18) I got a call from Ryan’s manager saying that he needed to shoot with Veronica on Tuesday and Thursday of the following week. We had been hoping to shoot with Ryan Monday – Wednesday so this was a huge problem. Normally I would have moved some dates around, but this was the end of our shoot so there was nothing we could add to those days.
I quickly called the producer of Veronica, who is an amazingly nice guy. He informed me that Ryan was shooting Tuesday morning – this we could make work! Ryan would shoot in Palo Alto on Monday night, he would fly down to San Diego in the morning, shoot with Veronica, and fly back to us for a Tuesday night shoot. A huge thank you to Ryan for working with a crazy 48 hours. Problem solved (so we thought)…
On Tuesday afternoon I called down to Howard, the producer of Veronica, to check on Ryan’s wrap time, and received some unfortunate news. He had to shift the days schedule a bit, and Ryan was not going to be wrapped until 8pm. This meant with travel time, he would not be on set in Palo Alto until 10-11pm putting us in a situation where had to rush the day. Still, after talking with Brad and Tony, I felt like we could get it done.
Around 7pm I get a call from Ryan. He was on set in San Diego and concerned that they were not going to wrap by 8pm (fyi: the last flight out of San Diego is at 855 so if he didn’t wrap by then we would lose him for the day). I quickly called Howard who re-confirmed this unfortunate fact. I explained our situation to him, which was if Ryan didn’t shoot with us we were going to have to cut scenes out of the movie. He politely said he would look into the situation, and call me back.
Cut to a few minutes later: Howard calls with his production manager on the line. They have redone the schedule, and pushed Ryan’s scene to another day!!! We were saved… Ryan left set at 8pm, made is 855 flight and arrived on our set at 1045. I owe Howard a huge favor…. moving his tight TV schedule around could not have been easy, and we here at PALO ALTO truly appreciate it. We had a lot to shoot in very little time, but the crew worked fast, and we made it happen. What a way to wrap production.
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