In the Electric Mist
Short description
In Louisiana, detective Dave Robicheaux investigates a series of murders of young women while also looking into the killing of a local woman that may be tied to New Orleans crime figure Julie "Baby Feet" Balboni. Balboni is involved in financing a Civil War film being shot in the area, and its star, Elrod Sykes, tells Robicheaux he has seen a body in the swamp. The discovery stirs painful memories of a killing Robicheaux witnessed decades earlier and leads him to suspect a connection between the cases.
The film is directed by Bertrand Tavernier, his eighth feature and the one that followed Safe Conduct in 2002. Tommy Lee Jones plays Robicheaux, with John Goodman as Balboni, Peter Sarsgaard as Sykes, Mary Steenburgen as Bootsie Robicheaux, Kelly Macdonald and Justina Machado also starring. Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski wrote the screenplay.
Released in 2009, the film runs 117 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.1 from around 21,000 votes, and on TMDB it also stands at 6.1, from 478 votes. A critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from 13 reviews places it in similar territory to the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The shooting scene near the bar was filmed near a real bar that existed from the 1970s to the early 1990s. Cockfights were also regularly held there, continuing until the bar closed a few years before the official ban on cockfighting in Louisiana. Since then, the building has stood abandoned.
- Sid Herbert was originally supposed to play the former sheriff, but Gary Grubbs appeared on screen instead. As a kind of compensation, posters supporting Sid Herbert's re-election as sheriff are repeatedly visible on screen.
- At the director's request, Tommy Lee Jones repeatedly made revisions to the script, although his name is not mentioned in the credits as a screenwriter.
- The film exists in two versions. One version was approved by producer Michael Fitzgerald for release in the US market, and the other, which is 15 minutes longer, was approved by director Bertrand Tavernier for international release.
- Disagreements between director Bertrand Tavernier and the American producers of the thriller escalated to the point where the producers categorically forbade composer Marco Beltrami from even speaking to Tavernier. Nevertheless, Beltrami met with Tavernier in Paris and gave him recordings of two melodies (which were not included in the producer's version of the film) for the version of the film prepared for international release.
Auditions in India
Casting calls in USA
Castingi w Polsce
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