Today I meet with one of the producers, Bobby, to make sure we have all of the locations locked down. So far I know we will be shooting all of the interior and exterior Villa/Vineyard locations at The Duchman Vineyard, Tuscan Hall, and The Reuter House. For Blake's restaurant we will be using Justine's located in East Austin. We be shooting in New Braunfels at the Comal Spring and in Luling at the Watermelon Thump Festival. For some of the bar/hotel scenes that open the movie I am sure we will be in downtown Austin but I am not sure where yet. The big question mark right now is a wine cellar. We need something here in Austin that looks like a personal wine cellar.... the owner of the vineyard's personal stash. Every place we have looked at does not fit what I want.
I will be in LA for casting at the beginning of May. There are 4 leads and 4 supporting. So far we have one supporting role cast. Patrick Bauchau will be playing Alexander, the worldly and magnetizing bachelor who owns the vineyard. I have 3 actors in mind for other roles but we have yet to iron out contracts. We will most likely just be casting for the roles of Blake, Michelle and Catherine (the 3 leads)... we have an actor lined up for Samuel (the main character) but he wants to meet me in person before committing. I will say this about him, he is a talented, young and up-and-coming actor with a lot of experience as a lead in several major feature films. We will also be holding closed auditions here in Austin. Possibly before I go to LA. It has been difficult to get to this point as we had over 5000 submissions and I have narrowed the field to about 20 actors for the role of Blake, 10 actresses for Catherine and 10 for Michelle.
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