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LMGI COMPASS
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Summer 2021
IN MY CITY: TUCSON
are looking for your very own
underground Titan II launch
complex with silo, blast lock,
and control center, call me!
Stevie: WHAT IS YOUR PERSONAL
FAVORITE LOCATION?
JC:
That's easy. It's my own
backyard. My house backs
up to Tucson Mountain Park,
and if I turn my head, I can
see the ragged crest of the
Tucson Mountains, where
Walter Brennan nonchalantly
informed John Wayne, "I
brung you some dynamite!"
in Rio Bravo and Jennifer
Jones clawed her bloody
way up the scree slopes after
Gregory Peck in Duel in the
Sun shouting, "I'm comin' up
after ya!"
Stevie: WHAT TYPES OF
PRODUCTIONS FILM IN TUCSON?
JC:
The bulk of our production
comes from commercials,
fashion shoots, music videos,
nature docs, reality shows,
international series, and
independent features that
do not need to chase tax
incentives. In almost all cases,
they are looking for a desierto
quality and mood that cannot
be doubled in their own
backyard.
Cameras recently rolled
on the feature fi lm Spiked
with Aiden Quinn, directed
by Juan Martinez Vera, and
Highfl yers, a series on Dutch
fi ghter pilots that utilized the
Arizona Air National Guard
facility at Tucson International
Airport. Westerns remain in
vogue as Eminence Hill with
Lance Henriksen shot at the
fabled Mescal movie ranch
east of Tucson, where Kurt
Russell and Val Kilmer once
faced off in Tombstone. Our
proximity to the U.S./Mexico
border helped bring in MTV's
Border Life and the similarly
titled Border Live from the
Discovery Channel. Tucson's
Armory Park neighborhood
Barrio Viejo
