Calista accompanies Ford to Hawaii!
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Ford lands on Big Isle
Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:22 AM HST
by John Burnett
Tribune-Herald Staff Writer
Harrison Ford is on the island.
Amid tight security and with little fanfare, the star of the fourth
installment of the Indiana Jones adventure films arrived at Hilo
International Airport at about 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, a source told the
Tribune-Herald.
The Chicago-born actor, who turns 65 Friday, emerged from the small,
private jet aircraft dressed casually and accompanied by his longtime
fiancee, Calista Flockhart, and "a couple of kids." Ford has two
children from his marriage to screenwriter Melissa Matheson, which
ended in divorce in January, 2004: son Malcolm Ford, 19; and daughter,
Georgia. He also has two grown children by his first wife, Mary
Marquart.
"He came down the steps of the plane eating sunflower seeds. He looked
like a regular guy," the source said.
Ford, who plays archaeologist/adventurer Indiana Jones, mingled
briefly with airport workers before leaving the airport with his
traveling companions.
"Basically, he shook people's hands who were on the tarmac and then
they took off with bodyguards," the source said, adding that the
aircraft departed Hilo about an hour later.
In addition to Ford, confirmed cast members include Shia LaBeouf, Cate
Blanchett, John Hurt, Ray Winstone and Jim Broadbent.
Director Steven Spielberg and co-executive producer and co-writer
George Lucas arrived in Hilo in separate private jets on Monday. The
three are reunited for the fourth episode of the Jones' franchise, the
working title of which, according to the Las Cruces (N.M.) Sun-News,
is "Indiana Jones and the City of the Gods." Due to tight security
here on the Big Island, those close to the Paramount Pictures-
Lucasfilm production are calling it "The Untitled Genre Project" or
its acronym, TUGP, or "Project X."
Another source said that filming of a battle scene for the movie,
which is scheduled to be released May 22, 2008, started Tuesday on
W.H. Shipman Estate property near Keaau.
It is believed that all filming on the Big Island will be done on
private property. Big Island film commissioner John Mason said that no
permits have been applied for through his office and Maj. Jay Enanoria
said Friday that police have not received any requests to close public
thoroughfares for filming.
Filming, including street scenes, has already wrapped in two
locations: Deming, N.M., which is doubling as mid-20th century
Morocco, and New Haven, Conn. -- home of Yale University -- where
streets were given a facelift to turn the town into Bedford and the
school into Marshall College, Jones' academic home.