10 day Witch filming coming to an end
According to the Las Vegas Review Journal:
The race is on, but only for a few more days, as “Race to Witch Mountain” races to complete its 10-day Vegas location visit Thursday.
Planet Hollywood Resort serves as headquarters for the update of the 1975 Disney favorite “Escape to Witch Mountain.”
The movie stars Dwayne Johnson (better known, during his wrestling days, as The Rock) in the role of a down-on-his-luck Vegas cabby whose two teen passengers (AnnaSophia Robb, Alexander Ludwig) are really aliens with telepathic and telekinetic powers.
“Witch Mountain” represents a reunion for Johnson and his “Game Plan” director, Andy Fickman, who turned out to be “a huge UFO nut and a massive fan of the original movie” and its 1978 sequel, notes producer Andrew Gunn.
Fickman, in turn, suggested “Game Plan” star Johnson for the “Witch Mountain” lead, Gunn explains, noting the “great humor” in casting “this 6-foot-4 guy stuck with two kids with amazing powers.”
And while “Witch Mountain” may be leaving Las Vegas at the end of the week, Johnson’s due to return to Neon Nirvana June 16 for a benefit screening of his latest, “Get Smart,” at the upcoming CineVegas film festival.
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