Only a few blocks away from the first location was our production designer, Steve Christensen, who was busily trying to prepare the next set for shooting.

"It was crazy trying to keep ahead of the shooting crew, I was always racing around pulling a set together and just be getting finished when Fletch would show up. Then I was off to the next set, doing it all over again."

Luckily, Steve had an art department made up largely of art teachers from various high schools.

"I incorporated the talents of the teachers to do graphics for signs, or put together a flower arrangement. Without their hands-on involvement I never could have pulled it off."

The Battles

These were some of the most fun to shoot. Every boy grows up playing cowboys and indians, cops and robbers, or whatever, this was our turn to play as adults.

"It really put you in the element having authentic guns, helmets, boots, and uniforms; it was just like being in the military during WWII except we weren't allowed to get our authentic uniforms dirty. The most amazing part was rushing into the empty warehouse and we're instructed to unload our guns... we shot blank after blank as fast as we could. Our adrenaline was pumping. The warehouse sounded like the heart of battle."

Nate Wright - Actor

With such little preparation time the crew would often times make up battle scenes on the fly. In fact, most of the action in the film was completely made up on arrival to the location that morning. Normally these kinds of things are planned weeks or even months in advance, giving all the departments time to prepare.