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Brotherhood of the Wolf

Dan Laustsen spent spring 2000 filming Christophe Gans' historic action horror drama in France and England - without being able to speak French! There were some other non-French speakers on the set - lead Mark Dacascos from the U.S., stunt co-ordinator Philip Kwok and part of his stunt crew and a few other crewmembers, but the main language was French, so there was definitely a lot of translating going on.

Filming was done using 2-3 cameras, and setting the light was complicated so DL did not shoot A-camera himself, and because of that, he missed the close contact he would otherwise have had with the actors.

I've been so fortunate as to be allowed to borrow some of Dan Laustsen's own wide-screen photos from the shoot. As DL is busy filming, I have not been able to get any comments from him, so all comments are mine.
Dan by the cross (23 kb)

 At court (133 kb)
Dan by the
cross-cairn (23 kb). 		At Court (133 kb).


Fronsac and Mani in front of the D'Apcher country house (60 kb)
Le Bihan and Dacascos in front of the D'Apcher home (60 kb). 		Dan and crew (78 kb)
Preparing to shoot the fight between Mani and the hunters - Dan by the camera in a grey turtleneck (78 kb). 		Dacascos and horse (71 kb)
Mark Dacascos with the dapple-grey horse. His own horse, the chestnut Borregerro was a little contrary (71 kb)
Filmcrew (65 kb)
Filmcrew and actors Jean-Francois Stevenin(the priest, in a yellow jacket), Samuel Le Bihan and Jeremie Renier ( 65 kb).
 House (83 kb)
One of the buildings. (83 kb)

 Cranes (52 kb)
Filming through a window. (52 kb).
Filming in the courtyard (54 kb)
Filming in the courtyard - Gans to the left. (54 kb)
 Mani and Fronsac riding up. (41 kb)
Mani and Fronsac riding up. (41 kb) 		Lightning set-up (60 kb)
Lightning set-up - outside the house of Marianne's old nurse? (60 kb)
Lightning set-up in the pit. (70 kb)
Lightning set-up in the pit where Fronsac, Mani and Thomas try to trap the beast. (70 kb) 		Shooting the bath scene (87 kb)
Shooting the bath scene (87 kb) 		Lightning set-up outside a house. (91 kb)
Lightning set-up outside a house. (91 kb)

All photos copyright © Dan Laustsen, used with permission.

If you want to see more "behind the scenes" photos - without Dan though, then visit Mark Dacascos' official website, select actor actor; resume; Les Pacte des Loups, and then you can see 17 more photos. I will be adding more photos now and then.
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