Making Bunker Hill

In the summer of 2006, I took time off from my job in Los Angeles to work on an independent film based out of my home city, Lawrence, Kansas. The movie, called Bunker Hill, would be the largest and most complicated production I had ever been involved with.

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The Story

Bunker Hill is about what happens when a disgraced daytrader, Salem, arrives in a small Kansas town (Bunker Hill) to visit his estranged wife, Hallie, and their two daughters. Hallie and her new beau, the town plutocrat McClain, want nothing to do with Salem. But after a mysterious event cuts the entire town off from the outside world and leaves cars and electrical devices dead, a reluctant Salem realizes he's the only one that can stop the power-mad McClain and his militia man brother Delmar from oppressing Hallie and the rest of the town in the name of security.

With overtones of western mythology and post-9/11 politics, Bunker Hill promises to be as entertaining and controversial as Kevin Willmott's last movie, Sundance hit C.S.A.


The Key Players

Selected Crew
Kevin Willmott - co-writer, director
Greg Hurd - co-writer
Patrick Rea - AD
Stephen Deaver - unit production manager
Lillian Parker - production coordinator, SAG liason
John Ott - 2nd AC

Selected Cast
James McDaniels - Salem
Laura Kirk - Miss Hallie
Kevin Geer - McClain
Blake Robbins - Delmar
Saeed Jaffrey - Mr. Farook


Bunker Hill Archive

To follow the progress of the film, make a bookmark by right- or control-clicking on this link. It will take you right back here, the clearinghouse for all my posts from Bunker Hill.

• Arrival
• Prepping the Camera Package*
• Hard Drive on the Fritz
• Day 1 - An Epic Start*
• Day 2 (brief post)
• Day 3 - A New Order Reigns
• Short Ends
• Day 8 - Stand Ins
• Local Coverage
• Day 11 - The Victorian Veranda
• Levity on Set
• Day 14 - Blowin' Stuff Up*
• Day 15 - Order of the Flaming Arrow
• Day 16 - Accidents Happen
• More Photos
• Day 18 - A Laborious Labor Day
• Day 19 - The Last of the Night Shoots
• Coffeyville Daze
• Day 22 - The Spirit Old Micheaux
• Day 23 - My Last Day*
• Crazy Lot of New Photos
• First Rought Cut Preview
• The Latest Cut and The Only Good Indian Preview
• More Action
• Santa Fe Film Festival and Community Bridge Interview

* denotes popular post