Box Clever

So, one of the key scenes in the movie takes place in a boxing gym. It's not a boxing movie, but that's where the scene takes place. This is primarily motivated by Stead's love of boxing; the scene could easily have taken a very different form, but one of the perks of being a producer and scriptwriter on you own movie project is that you can do... er... pretty much whaterver you want.

Anyway, the scene works really well on paper, but a convincing boxing ring isn't something that can be knocked up easily so, as with a number of other locations in the movie, we needed to find a real life boxing gym that's happy for us to take them over for a day or two.

A bit of searching around on the net narrowed it down to a couple of local gyms and a couple of e-mails later, Stead's elicited an agreement from one of them to accommodate us. Although we've yet to meet the owner - hopefully that'll happen later this week - he's indicated that he's happy to help and that it's something he's done before. I'll post an update and hopefully a few pictures of the place once we've had the meeting!

Next up... find some office space...