• Mysterio checks in with his final report from the set of Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back in Los Angeles, which reminds me, there’s probably a few words that can be said here about the Jersey stuff. Oh well, add it to the list of stuff to do, including the Clerks cartoon drinking game and DVD review, as well as the Better Place soundtrack review. So much to do, so little time!

Anyway, this report reveals a few more sight gags and other secrets (this movie is PACKED with ‘em!), as well as goes into some detail on the frustrations of a day that just doesn’t go as planned. Good, interesting stuff. It’s also revealed that they desire to get the film down to around 100 minutes of running time, but the last we’d heard it was coming in at well over 2 hours. It’s going to be another challening edit for Kevin and Scott, as it’s got to be hard to let some of this stuff go. At least it’ll all return on the DVD, as it always does. Here’s a clip of the write-up from today:

It’s early Saturday morning, and the day’s already gone into a tailspin of sorts, as Vincent and his team are having mechanical problems with the dog, and desperately trying to fix it, as time is money, and today’s schedule is tight, including a company move later to an outside location. So a delay like this can obviously be a time consuming as well as costly one at that.

Aside from the dog, Jay was also a bit tardy to makeup this morning, which involved a 2-hour makeup job.

Scott and line producer, Laura Greenlee are on set to oversee the filming of the dog, while Kev is catching up on viewing some dailies, and 1st AD, Tim Bird works on directing the dog. Now Laura’s job is primarily to make sure that everything goes smoothly, timely and most importantly keeping the picture on schedule and under budget. So these little set backs don’t do much to help her, as things already seem to be running bit behind.

Once the dog’s back up, Laura calls Kevin from dailies to approve the dog’s movements and camera set up. Once Kev arrives and cameras roll on the dog, the mechanical eyes die and soon the head of the pooch begins to smoke ala ‘Scanners’. After closer examination, it’s learned that the wiring or battery has been fried.

Read the historical last set report at Aint It Cool News right HERE. We hear they’re going through a server upgrade right now, so don’t forget you can also catch it over at our Scooping The Monkey website as well (see below for more info on “Scooping”, by the way…).