REELS ON WHEELS

SFX, issue 87
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transcribed by Xerianna

Three genre stars break out of their typical roles to makes their own film.

A TRIO OF GENRE STALWARTS, including William Gregory Lee from James Cameron's Dark Angel, are trying to save the Western world in 'Wheelmen', a new independent movie coming out early next year. Lee, whose credits also include playing Ted Raimi's son on Xena, is joined by 'The Sentinel's' Richard Burgi, and Dark Angel and Galaxy Quest's Rainn Wilson.

Filmed on Location in the Mojave desert during October 2001, Lee and Burgi play drivers for a Los Angeles based chauffeuring firm. They're informed by Wilson's former Secret Service agent of a plot to assassinate the Vice-President of the United States in order to prevent him casting a critical vote. Somehow they must elude the group of bad guys chasing them, and get back to save the day.

"It's the most different thing from Zack I could have chosen to do," Lee explains. "I don't want to be stereotyped, and as much as I love playing Zack, I think I have more range."

Lee's time on Dark Angel didn't coincide with Wilson's, so Wheelmen marked the first time the two men had worked together. "I love working with different actors because they always bring something new to the picture," Lee says. "Everything has different energy and different creativity. You just never know what whoever you are in the scene with is going to spit out next."

The cast is augmented by Michael Fairman, fresh from working with David Lynch on Mulholland Drive. "These are good people who allow you to be creative," he says. "The mood and the tone of the production was positive, and everyone had a good time."

"We can throw something at the director, and he's open to our ideas," Lee says of the first-time helmer DirkHagen. "Some of the cast had been around years, and done an extreme amount of work, and that's one of the things that is so exciting about the whole project.

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