Mickey Rourke's Warhunt is the rare movie to finish shooting amid COVID-19 pandemic
Shooting on the World War II fantasy-horror movie continued amid the pandemic and just wrapped up,The actor stars in the film, which was shot in Riga, Latvia. Also featuring Robert Knepper and Jackson Rathbone,follows an elite squad of American soldiers on a secret mission during WWII. Trapped behind enemy lines in Germany’s Black Forest, the men then come face-to-face with a coven of witches.
“I came to Riga to work, and this thing was so out of control, but everyone was so great," Rourke told"We had to rearrange the schedule for Mickey Rourke as the country was closing its borders, and luckily he agreed to fly early to beat the closure, and we rescheduled his shoot days to accommodate this change," producer Yu-Fai Suen said.
He added that the Latvian government gave him the green light to shoot more film and TV productions under the same guidelines. The producer's past positions have included chief operating officer at Elton John's Rocket Pictures and senior vice president at Momentum Pictures."It was surreal at the beginning, but the cast and crew quickly adjusted to the masks and other precautions, so we ended up even more focused and efficient," the Italian filmmaker said.
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