Best of produced-in-BC film and television. Leo Awards Gala tonight at Vancouver’s Hyatt Regency. Best Dramatic Series Rogue: John Morayniss, Matthew Parkhill, Robert Petrovicz, Nick Hamm – Producers –… Read More »LEO AWARDS: ROGUE Wins Best Dramatic Series Over Vancouver Whydunit MOTIVE, BATES MOTEL, BEYOND & ICE
Update: Rogue moved production from Vancouver to Toronto for season 3 — starting filming mid-February 2015 — and cast Richard Schiff, Sarah Carter (Falling Skies)… Read More »RENEWED: ROGUE With Thandie Newton & Cole Hauser Renewed for Supersized Season Three
Grace Travis (Thandie Newton) avenged her son’s death in the first season of Rogue and said goodbye to her crime boss lover (Marton Csoskas). Season… Read More »SEASON PREMIERE: ROGUE Season Two with Thandie Newton, Andrea Roth & Cole Hauser
Cole Hauser as Ethan and Alec Newman as Ray. Grace Travis (Thandie Newton) goes back undercover in the second season of Rogue to investigate a San… Read More »SHOOT: ROGUE S2 Films Cole Hauser, Alec Newman & Aleksa Palladino Making Large Bank Withdrawal Downtown
Update: Rogue season two premiered Wednesday, May 28th, on DirecTV in the U.S. and Thursday, June 5th, on TMN in Canada. Grace Travis (Thandie Newton)… Read More »SHOOT: Cole Hauser Films ROGUE S2 at Century House Downtown
Rogue crew made Century House look stunning on the outside last night with sky-blue neon lights, shrubbery, well-dressed backgrounders and some fancy cars parked out… Read More »SHOOT: ROGUE S2 Films Clayne Crawford & Aleksa Palladino at Century House Downtown – Night Shoot
DirecTV’s first original series Rogue stars Thandie Newton (Mission Impossible 2, Crash) as Grace, a morally-compromised undercover cop in Oakland, who’s cavorting with Marton Csokas’s crime boss, who may have been involved in her son’s death. Now that’s a complicated relationship. Rogue wrapped filming of its first season of ten episodes on Friday in Vancouver.
I found them on location twice this past week, filming their season finale. First on Monday in the pouring rain on a closed block of Heatley Avenue in the Downtown Eastside, dressed as Oakland. Thandie Newton walked back and forth between two of the sets in small houses, wearing a blue baseball cap, hoodie, coat, striped track pants and running shoes. If I didn’t know her role as an undercover cop, I would not have recognized her. And then on Tuesday in the pouring rain at the Burrard Ironworks building near the Main Street overpass dressed as MacArthur’s Bar, Marton Csoka came out on breaks carrying his own umbrella to read his script (Csoka also drives his own vehicle from circus to set). It’s unfortunate that miserable, neverending rain was a theme this week.
Here are more photos of Thandie Newton on Heatley Avenue as Oakland, California.
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DirecTV’s Rogue has been tough to find filming on location in Vancouver, so it was a pleasant surprise to spot them out in the open on Saturday afternoon at the Bentall 5 tower downtown dressed as Trade Investments. Production has been “hush hush”, one of their productions guys told me last week out at Deer Lake. No kidding. All we really know is that the American satellite network’s first original series stars Thandie Newton (Mission Impossible 2, Crash) as Grace, a morally-compromised undercover cop in Oakland, who’s cavorting with Marton Csokas’s crime boss, who may have been involved in her son’s death. Now that’s a complicated relationship.
Could Marton Csokas’s crime boss be the tall dressed-in-black mafioso type in the scene below? If so, Csokas (Lord of the Rings, Alice in Wonderland) is virtually unrecognizable with jet black hair, except for his height. Joining him in the walk and talk out of Bentall 5 is BC’s own Frank Cassini. (Blackstone) I also spotted BC’s own Ian Tracey (DaVinci’s Inquest, Intelligence, Sanctuary) on set but didn’t see him in a scene.
Ian Tracey is Detective Lucas “Mitch” Mitchel.
Of course, as often happens, I found Rogue again today filming inside La Terrazza, a Yaletown restaurant at Pacific and Cambie. And this time, Thandie Newton seemed to be on set, but I can’t be sure. Read More »SHOOT: ROGUE’s Marton Csokas Films at Bentall 5 Tower in Downtown Vancouver