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The New Daughter Movie Update

Daniel Bates — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:42:10 +0000

Update: The New Daughter Released: Shots from Around McClellanville
One unsuspected result of the articles I’ve written about the new Kevin Costner movie to be filmed in and around McClellanville, The New Daughter, is the number of people that have contacted me. Some people are looking for the inside scoop on casting calls while others have offered up their homes and property and even a home-cooked meal in hopes to meet Mr. Costner. I am working with the production company and hope to be wrapping up their housing arrangements this week, which I’m afraid I cant discuss, but this hasn’t given me any inside information on the details of the filming.
That being said, I will share with you the information Ive heard around town.
Cindi Hobgood, who is the locations manager for New Daughter LLC, announced at a Town Hall meeting on February 4^th that they will be filming in the town of McClellanville on February 26^th and 27^th. She advised that they plan to”shoot the scenes on Pinckney Street, including some interior and exterior scenes at T.W. Graham and Co. and at the Arts Council building and a driving scene on Pinckney Street”. Filming at Grahams will include a “romantic restaurant scene” between Kevin Costner and his love interest in the film and the Arts Council will be transformed into a police station/jail. During filming there will be intermittent traffic control, but people shouldnt have to wait more than a few minutes. Hobgood said that both businesses would be paid for their contributions to the film but the town itself was not receiving any money.
I have also heard from numerous sources that a majority of the filming will be done at the Wedge Plantation on the Santee River. The Wedge, which dates back to around 1784, is currently owned by the University of South Carolina, but has recently been leased for hunting. The main plantation home will most likely serve as the home of John James (played by Kevin Costner). The films plot apparently revolves around mysterious burial mounds near the home and its effect on James daughter.
The only casting information I have seen is on the South Carolina Film Commission Website which simply asks for people to submit their resume and photos. If I learn of any more information I will be sure to post it here.

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The New Daughter Comes to McClellanville

Daniel Bates — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:10:36 +0000

Update: The New Daughter Released: Shots from Around McClellanville
I can now confirm my earlier post about the filming of the new Kevin Costner movie, The New Daughter, here in McClellanville . Film crews are already in the area and filming is slated to begin February 18th. I have been working with the films housing manager to help them find suitable McClellanville Rentals for all the cast and crew.
The New Daughter is a horror/thriller movie, in which Kevin Costner plays a single father who’s daughter starts acting strangely after moving to a new house in the country that happens to have burial mounds on the property. Ivana Baquero, who starred as the young girl in Pan’s Labrinth, will be playing the role of the daughter. Costner has starred in (and often directed and produced as well) more hollywood blockbusters than you can shake a stick at including Field of Dreams, Dances with Wolves, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Waterworld, Wyatt Earp, Tin Cup, 3000 Miles to Graceland, and The Guardian to name a few.
What do you think of the idea of McClellanville as a backdrop for a horror movie? Leave a Comment
Update: New Daughter Movie Update

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McClellanville Goes Hollywood Again?

Daniel Bates — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 02:11:40 +0000

Update: The New Daughter Released: Shots from Around McClellanville
The Post and Courier reported today that McClellanville may be the new site for the filming of a horror movie called The New Daughter starring Kevin Costner. The article reports that McClellanville and Edisto Island are two possible locations for the filming and that a production studio has made its home in Charleston. The film is based on a story by John Connolly which takes place in rural Illinois. This leads one to wonder what McClellanville and Illinois share visually, but I guess thats where they say a film is loosely based on a novel.
Of course this isnt the first time McClellanville has attracted the attention of Hollywood. Much of the movie Paradise, starring the then-married Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith and a young Elijah Wood, was filmed in McClellanville in 1991. I remember it well because we got to get out of school to go watch them film and then we played football with Elijah Wood who was our age. You can recognize T.W. Grahams restaurant in the scene near the beginning when Elijah arrives in town on bus. As I recall the name and appearance of the restaurant were changed and there was a large fake red building facade that was built next to it as part of the scene. My memory is a little fuzzy due to the fact that I was only 11.
A few scenes from Forest Gump were also filmed in McClellanville a few years later in 1994. When Forrest (Tom Hanks) jumps off his shrimp boat to go see Lieutenant Dan (Gary Sinise) was filmed on the Intracoastal Waterway and the footage of the shrimp boat fleet after the storm was news footage taken after Hurricane Hugo.
(Copyright 1994 Paramount Pictures – All rights reserved.)
There have also been quite a few articles written about McClellanville published in various national and local magazines and publications over the past few years if youd like to read some unbiased reviews of the area.
UPDATE: The New Daughter will indeed be filmed in McClellanville.
UPDATE: New Daughter Movie Update

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