What was the toughest part of filming REIGN OF FIRE?
ROB BOWMAN: We got to the end of the movie and because of foot and mouth they almost wouldn’t let me build the castle. We were halfway done when we were told to stop. We were going to go to Morocco. No matter what June 30 had to be my final day of filming. So we got to the end of the movie and only had eight days to film the castle scene, which was all at night. On the first night I asked to see how much light we would get from the fires. But you couldn’t see the $3 million set or each other. It was black, toxic smoke. We couldn’t work in that. So I said we would film at day. So we wrapped, lost the next day and so I now had six days to shoot the end of the movie. I didn’t know how I was going to do it. To have worked for a year on the movie and realise at that point that I was in jeopardy of getting the end of the movie was a bit of a hair-raiser. That was the biggest calamity. Foot and mouth was tense. They wouldn’t let the construction crew on to the site because they were concerned
