White County Provides Filming Location for Major Picture

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By Ward Norris

Story Published: Sep 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM CST

Story Updated: Sep 13, 2009 at 3:07 PM CST

 
 
 Scenes in White's Cave, in the Lost Creek area of White County.  

A group of friends descend upon a remote wilderness area to camp and party, reuniting after a year apart.  Their decision to embark on a short exploration of an unknown cave system turns into a horrific struggle for survival...

White County is once again in the movies with a Cannes film candidate, produced by a couple with ties to the Sparta area.



Jade Moser, along with her husband Paul, are the owners of a production company that is making a name in the Hollywood scene with their movie “Into the Darkness.”

Jade is sister to Shane Hodges, a White County High School graduate.

In August, Moser Productions filmed the promotional trailer at the Lost Creek area, in White County, and Cumberland Caverns, in Warren County. The trailer will be released next month.

The movie will be entered in the Cannes Film Festival and then released in March 2011.

Actors include Kiowa Gordon, Wolfgang Weber, Anna Enger, Dalal Bruchmann and Russ Russo.  Gordon is appearing in the highly anticipated movie “Twilight: New Moon,” which is now in production.

Weber, who is from Canada, has appeared in Nip/Tuck; Ace Ventura: Pet Detective Jr.; CSI: Miami; Two and a Half Men; and numerous other TV shows and movies.
 

The film is being produced by Moser Productions, LLC and Chain Gang Films, and will begin filming in May, 2010.

Though production on Into The Darkness has yet to begin, however, the cast and crew have already been acquainted with each other through the preliminary photo shoot and trailer production in White County.

Anna Enger also remarked upon the "refreshing" closeness of the cast and crew coming off of their pre-production work in Tennessee, and is quoted as saying:

I think the greatest thing about filming this is just the people in the town of McMinnville. Everybody there was so gracious and so nice to us. Everyone had a great sense of camaraderie, and everyone wanted to make a good film. ... I mean the cast and the crew, it just felt like everybody molded, it just worked. The crew itself, a lot of local people from my understanding, in McMinnville, were the nicest bunch of people I have ever met. It’s unbelievable how gracious and accommodating they were. So, you know, I really enjoyed that.

It doesn't hurt, either, that the majority of filming will take place in the luxurious cave systems of Sparta and McMinnville, Tennessee, which Enger states "are just so cool" that she doesn't know if, "even on film it will do them justice."

Weber is quoted as saying what he is most looking forward to as filming begins in May is getting back into the caves,

I’m looking forward to getting back in the caves....Flying back over I think their planning on filming in the Smoky Mountains and exploring different cave systems, but I think producers are taking the cast before filming on a caving trip.

 

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