Filming on Vin Diesel's new movie Babylon AD has started again after lack of snow brought filming in the Czech Republic to an abrupt halt last month (FEB07). A stunt co-ordinator and other crew members have been replaced and now producer Ilan Goldman and director Mathieu Kassovitz, director of Gothika, are confident the movie is "back on track". Goldman tells trade paper Daily Variety, "When you make a costly, ambitious film (like this), it is always complicated... We took a two-week break to sort these things out."The snow problem came when the production moved to Iceland to film wintry scenes, only to discover there wasn't enough natural snow.Goldman and Kassovitz are still looking for a snowbound European location where they can shoot the scenes over the course of a week.Babylon AD is a film about Thoorop (Diesel) a veteran turned mercenary who takes a job escorting a woman from Russian to China. But she is the host of an organism wanted by a cult organisation to produce a genetically modified Messiah. It's leading man Vin Diesel shot to fame in 2001 in motor movie The Fast and the Furious but he was already known to a cult audience a Richard P Riddick from Pitch Black. Unfortunately he has not had much box office success as of late with Chronicles of Riddick, the sequel to to Pitch Black, not doing as well as predicted. But 2005's The Pacifier was a surprise box office hit for the actor.The film's two-week delay has put added pressure on the producers, who have been told they'll have to vacate their soundstages at Prague's Barrandov Studios to make way for construction work on The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Which is set to start shooting there at the beginning of april (07).

Tagged in