The Chilean director Raoul Ruiz was preparing to shoot his historical epic "Linhas de Wellington" (The Lines of Wellington) when he died last year.
Donald Sutherland stars as a famous American filmmaker who travels to Beijing to shoot a historical epic, but discovers that he's about to die just as the film goes into production.
A 23-year-old stuntman died and six others were injured in a fire in Beijing while shooting a historical epic by the director John Woo, The Associated Press reported.
Gwannam was shooting a historical drama on the decks of a real-life US spy ship, the USS Pueblo, which had been captured by the North Koreans in 1968.
Inspired by "Zelig" and "Forrest Gump," Johnson and his crew blend new footage they shot with historical clips from that era.
"We'd go back and shoot all the historical scenes and just before a moment that everyone recognises, there's Joey and Phoebe coming out of a broom closet together.
I recently went out to shoot at a historical site, and let me give you an idea of exactly how much stuff I carried inside my jacket.
It is not easy to shoot a half-hour historical drama about a battle involving 44,000 men on a budget of $100,000.
In his defense, the black leader in the dock championed his right to lead his supporters in singing a song with the seemingly bloodthirsty line "Shoot the Boer!" — a historical reference widely taken as a threat by Afrikaners, the descendants of Dutch settlers and the creators of apartheid.
