Warner Bros. confirmed today that much of the film will be shot on location in Sydney, Australia. Variety notes that despite continuing negotiations between the Matrix producers and the Australian government over tax breaks, the studio plans to go ahead with the Australian location shoot, which will begin in September. The film is currently in pre-production in Los Angeles. Lennix just completed work on the independent film Pumpkin with Christina Ricci. This and Thate Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are headed for the small screen, for a project inspired by Saving Private Ryan .
Hanks appears onscreen in a small role, and also directed one of the episodes.
The series will debut on HBO in September . . . Well, the inevitable has occurred, and there will indeed be a movie about them. Ving Rhames has joined Kurt Russell in The Plague Season , a cop drama to be directed by Ron Shelton . . . It's now eight years later. There are also flashbacks to ancient Egypt, where at times I'm the reincarnation of Princess Nefertiti, and I get into these big chick fights.