BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES, LOUISIANA
08.17.09
They’re cousins, identical cousins all the way.
Battle: Los Angeles is an aliens-vs-humans movie starring Aaron Eckhart and Michelle Rodriguez. The majority of the scenes are being shot in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. *record scratch*
It’s not unusual to film in a state that offers bigger subsidies and interest-free loans, but trying to substitute Baton Rouge for L.A. is just ballsy as hell. This isn’t a subtle change of setting like Gran Torino, which was set in the large Hmong community of Minnesota but was filmed in Michigan, a state that offers up to 42% in subsidies toward production costs. Michigan was also, according to Clint Eastwood, “less gooky“.
If Battle: Los Angeles becomes a series, I look forward to these future installments:
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Battle: Salt Lake City (filmed in Detroit)
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Battle: Miami (filmed in Reykjavik)
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Battle: Compton (filmed in Tokyo)
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Battle: Machu Picchu (filmed in Des Moines)
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Battle: Calcutta (filmed at Diddy’s house)
~ robopanda [Sources: The Economist and WBRZ News]
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Fact.
Most people in Los Angeles have Cajun accents.
Fact.
Is this really any worse than filming Rumble in the Bronx in Vancouver?
In all fairness, Michelle Rodriguez is persona-non-grada in most major cities west of the Mississippi.
SHE FUCKING LOVES BENEIGHTS!!!
Fuck em. Dat’s what they get for always givin Loosianans horrible ak-sents on that thar televishun box.
Doesn’t matter. Michelle Rodriguez turns every city she’s in into an aliens vs. humans clusterfuck.
This is like the reverse Creedence Clearwater Revival of movies.
Whatta ya mean Erswi, Anna Paquin’s accent if perfect in True Blood, she’s utterly convincing as a mildly retarded telepath from Louisiana, utterly.
I think Gran Torino was a “Michigan for Michigan” shoot. Clint was a retired line worker from Ford’s, who built his titular vehicle hisself. Unlike the currently Detroit-shooting remake of Red Dawn, which is supposed to be Spokane. One shithole for another
I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess Rodriguez is the alien. I’ve raised my status from an amateurfiler to a profiler.
Panda, I really do heart you so fucking hard for that but it is beignets.
In other news, the state of Louisiana just saw a 99% increase in bad driving and generic female “badass” behavior.
(I still hate you, Ana Lucia.)
Hairy, I really should kill you for that.
Not the comment but for watching True Blood.
Holy crap, Shop can read my thoughts 60 seconds into the future!
L.A. for L.A.
Genius!
Instead of Bloods and Crips, do the have Bayous and Croixs?
Nah, we actually got real crypts.
If only I could read my own that far ahead.
They were looking into better substitute cities, but the cost to ship human refuse state to state was too high.
SHOW ME YOUR CULO PUTA!!!
This is already being billed as the most epic hot sauce battle of all time.
Are you kidding Erswi? True Blood is fucking genius. Anna Paquin isn’t a method actor, she really is mildly retarded, and they convinced her to show us her amazing tits every week, along with several other hotties like Lizzy Caplan (best tits ever? maybe), so criticize away, but….
TITS!
I bet Vancouver is pissed.
You see Jack!, since the awesome update of this site, about three seconds afgter the page loads the first three comments are covered by Digg Tools bullshit. So that semi dick step can be solely attributed to UUUPPPRRRROOOOOXXXXXX!!!!
I think we’re all missing the important point here. Who the hell green lights these half-baked half-aborted scripts that come across their desk.
If this doesn’t have Kurt Russel in it, count me out.
How are they gonna explain the gun racks in the back of 4X4′s driven by raccoons in the background of every shot?
Meh. I didn’t say anything so fantastic that it bother me that someone else said it.
Albuquerque is still wondering who it has to fuck.
Miz just described about 16 states including mine. Minus the movie cameras that is.
Gun racks? How are they gonna explain all the black guys in the background of every shot instead of Mexicans?
So what? I film most of my porn in your Mom.
New up, piss drinkers
To be fair, I’m in one of those states as well, but Louisiana’s number came up this time. Projection’s a bitch.
Hairy, tits is your reasoning?
Have you heard of internet porn?
* huh huh, i said hairy tits
Unless it means I’m gonna get made fun of, I have to agree with Hairy. I watched it and thought “wow this kind of sucks” then it was non-stop titties. Eventually you lose interest but it’s better than the other 99% of crap on tv that doesn’t have tits.
Yea miz, I do the same thing and just pray no one looks up my I.P. address.
You’re wrong all around robopanda, Gran Torino wasn’t set in Minnesota, it was set in Highland Park, Mi. The original script script was inspired by a Hmong neighborhood in the suburbs of Minneapolis but they changed it because of the tax incentives and because it makes more sense to have a guy who worked at Ford living in Metro Detroit. You’d know that if you did your research and you’d also have discovered that Michigan is plenty gooky.
You. Got. Served.
The original script script was inspired by a Hmong neighborhood in the suburbs of Minneapolis but they changed it because of the tax incentives
Uh, yeah. That was exactly what I said.
You. Got. Unserved.
To their credit, I had to look at those pictures three or four times to figure out which one was Los Angeles, and I live in LA (but to my discredit, I live in LA).
Also, we have the most boring, nondescript skyline of any major American city.
Des Moines is a dead ringer for Macchu Picchu.
last time i checked most baton rougeans dont have fucking Cajun accents, so what’s the big deal? and the only way it would be noticeably different is if there are city wide aerial views.