fifi wrote:

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Wandering off topic....but it makes me smile that everyone gets irritated when Damien's name is misspelled.  I wonder if it botheres him....

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Well, I don't know if it bothers Damien that his name is (regularly) misspelled, but it bothers me.  Give credit where credit is due, and as Domino says, especially if it's media - they should cross their t's and dot their i's.  In this day and age a simple 5 second Google check is all it takes.  Even posting things here or on twitter, I fact-check myself and try to spell things correctly.  It's the polite thing to do.

My married name is Fox (which is such an improvement over my maiden name)  Seems simple, right?  I still get misspellings - Fax, Foxx, Sox... And my first name? As much as I would LOVE to be, I am not Irish... 

So anyway, I just did an online chat with Amazon (US) customer service and let them know his surname is misspelled on the listing for the Raven audiobook... *insert eye roll* 

why don't we have an eyeroll emoticon?

Another interesting Tiger Raid tidbit. The film received funding from the Irish Film Board (note it says international production)

Irish Film Board funding decisions

I'm sure I read an article refering to this film as international but I can't find it now.  Of course being an international production doesn't necessarily guarantee international distribution - but it does feel like it should make it more likely.  I've got my fingers crossed.........we'll just have to be patient (!!) and wait and see.

Wonderful info!

Oh the things actors will go through for our enjoyment.  I remember checking and it was actually a smidge cooler in Jordan than here at the time they were filming.  Which is to say it was miserable.  I spend most the summer hiding inside with A/C blasting. Feel for them fair-skinned Irish lads in full camo having to be out in that. (Though 50 deg C is an exaggeration btw. It was more like 30-32)

Fantastic insights indeed.  I love hearing behind the scenes stories & seeing behind the scenes pictures.  Sometimes I wish there were behind the scenes videos of all my favorite TV shows/movies just to see the process, to see the actors as they prep for a scene, getting in and out of character, etc... oh to have been at some of the BH filming.  Or Suspects...

Info on the Goldfinch (are they investors or distributors?) website is "The film tells the story of two Irish mercenaries attempting a kidnapping in Iraq."

So I'm assuming - hoping! - they used their native accents.  

As for weather, this was what it was like in Amman.  Mission X is located just north of there according to their website.

Jordan is apparently a Mediterranean climate like most of California.  Where I am, we get up to 38 in the summer routinely (though funny enough I'm only half hour from San Francisco which is super cold in the summer).  About 6 hrs away is the Mojave desert (where the space shuttle used to land btw) which can get up to 50 deg C.  So I know exactly how "pure shweating" feels!  UGH!  Absolute misery.

Sorry I seem to have hijacked this thread to babble on about the weather...

Yes, I had read Irish mercenaries and had assumed the same but was thrown by the most recent interview saying 'US Army' ???

Just as confused (in an excited sort of a way!) about the black comedy / thriller / dark and brooding genre.... and hope those descriptions that have excluded each other do not rule out the possibility of all of those together.

Thanks for that nugget fifi, the film is totally going to be pitched internationally - with the interview before last with Director indicating the same, it sounds really hopeful!

That's true ok that works in my head now

Anyone remember that tweet from Damien about the film 'The Rock'? I am now wondering if this was another Tiger Raid clue.. maybe... ....A group of rogue U.S. Force Recon Marines hold civilians hostage on Alcatraz..

After DaMo's makeup tweet for Clean Break yesterday, I was thinking back to that very tweet of the bin full of wipes. Something like these are what I'm thinking of, more on the browns/blacks.  And with beardiness, which seems at odds with military code, but whatever...