Mom - Hanna María

We just posted this on our no9productions.com website:
Nr 9 is extremely excited to announce the addition of actress
Hanna María Karlsdóttir to our cast. Hanna María is a well known stage & film actress in Iceland. New Yorker´s are most likely to remember her from the popular film "101
Reykjavik", where she played the Hilmir Snæs mother.

Production Design - María Kristín

Another new team member, María Kristín. She graduated from the Iceland Academy of the Arts 2003 and will be in charge of production design for the film. I guess all the networking our friends have been taking care off is really paying off :)
Other things from Iceland, tonight, the Duran Duran concerts. The radio stations are going crazy, people are planning pre-parties and so on..... great 80´s comeback tonight..... and I´m going.... I´m sure downtown Reykjavik will be one big crazy party around midnight!!!!!
Anyhow, back to business, more news later today!!!!!

Comparing and contrasting

Defining who our characters really are, and hence where they live is one our many recent tasks. I´m leaning towords the more modest home. The one with the red roof. Only 3 more days until I must leave for the northern most tip of Iceland, and oh so much to do before then. Hey - anyone out there want to be a line producer for a few weeks? Even better if you speak Icelandic.

Hallur as Addi

Me and Isold have been BUSY for the last week in Iceland. We have been doing some location scouting as you can see, more photos to come soon. More auditions will be held today and tomorrow.....

We have a new member on our team, his name is Stefán Hallur Stefánsson (Hallur). He will play Addi, Katrin´s old boyfriend. Did great on the auditions, perfect for the role :)

And then networking, it seems like our friends are completely working on that part for us, even Isold´s hairdresser. We have a lot of volunteers which is great, both as crew and cast.... Isold might have to rewrite the script so we can use them all.....

Well, back to auditions

BAR

What do you think about this bar? Looks cool.... could be a nice shot. This is between 2 and 3 AM!! So we have more auditions tonight, location scouting today and so on. We will keep you posted..

3AM location scouting

Thinking of using this view for one of our scenes. What do ya think?

So we made it to Iceland just in time for independence day.
Patriotic, aren't we.

After 10 hours of alcohol consumption in celebration of 61 years away
from the Danish King and one day of hangover we have amazingly been able to prepare an audition for 13 people, scouted locations in Reykjavik, hired the make-up artist, hired the actors assistant and, last but not least, been to the blue lagoon.
Inspired by our pristine environment it is obvious that Reykjavik will be shot in "blue" and NYC will be shot in "yellow/sepia".
In Reykjavik everyone looks like they just stepped out of the shower while in New York everyone feels like they've never seen one.
The women are all dressed like Carrie Bradshaw but they drink like they are Courtney Love.

I would love to tell you more but I believe we have 8 hours of auditions in the morning, 5 hours from now.

Family Reunion is on a roll.
But first some sleep.