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Eduardo Sanchez

Is this the man you said it would take an army to capture?

About Me


Wrote and Directed SEVENTH MOON
Directed ALTERED
Co-Wrote and Co-Directed THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT
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YOUTUBE CHANNEL
HAXAN FILMS

My Interests

Collecting STAR WARS junk. Making a film whenever I can. Hanging with the wife and kids. That's it, really.

I'd like to meet:

Prince, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, the Doctor that juiced Gregg Hale...

Music:

Autowow, Prince, Steely Dan, The Beatles, U2, Citizen Cope, Bruce Springsteen, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Keane, Coldplay, Radiohead, Doves, A Tribe Called Quest, Arrested Development, Basil Poledouris, Peter Gabriel, Beastie Boys, Beck, Bernard Herrmann, Elmer Bernstein, Willie Nelson, Vangelis, The Time, Bruce Hornsby, Carter Burwell, Earth, Wing and Fire, Sly and the Family Stone, emmet swimming, Ennio Morricone, They Might Be Giants, Sting, The Police, R.E.M., Cracker, Hans Zimmer, John Meyer, Madhouse, John Barry, Oasis, Frank Sinatra, Sheryl Crow, Julio Iglesias, The Pogues, Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, India Arie, Paul Simon, Fishbone, Royce...

Movies:

A SOUND OF THUNDER, DOLEMITE, DO THE RIGHT THING, BLADE RUNNER, THE BIG PUSH (AKA TIMBER TRAMPS), CONAN: THE BARBARIAN, THE EXORCIST, JAWS, STAR WARS, EMPIRE OF THE SUN, DAZED AND CONFUSED, BORAT: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, GOOD FELLAS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, Sean Connery and early Roger Moore JAMES BOND films, AIRPLANE!, JACKASS, THE SHINING, UNFORGIVEN, PLANET OF THE APES, WAKING LIFE, BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA, WHALE RIDER, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, TOXIC AVENGER, RAISING VICTOR VARGAS, PURPLE RAIN, WEST SIDE STORY, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, THE CHANGELING, ALIEN, ALIENS, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH, FERHENHEIT 911, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK...

Television:

THE DAILY SHOW, SURVIVOR, REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER, DA ALI G SHOW, SOPRANOS, MASH, STAR TREK, EMERGENCY 51, CROFT SUPER STARS HOUR, BATTLE OF THE PLANETS, LOVE BOAT, BATTLE OF THE NETWORK STARS, LOONEY TUNES...

Books:

Just about anything by ARTHUR C. CLARKE - especially the RAMA series, COMMUNION, DEATHWATCH, COSMOS, THE WITCHING HOUR, the HARRY POTTER books, THE VAMPIRE LESTAT, AMITYVILLE HORROR, 1984, ANIMAL FARM, FARHENHEIT 451, SPIKE LEE'S GOTTA HAVE IT, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES, ARMOR, VAMPIRES...

Heroes:

My Grandmother and my parents for coming from Cuba and somehow surviving.

My Blog

Word from LA

Got in yesterday and headed straight for the IN N OUT burger near LAX. Nothing like a burger for breakfast, even though it is really lunch for me, since I'm on east coast time. That's what I like ...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:35:00 PST

Hanging at THE INN

Sitting at my room at the SKYWALKER RANCH Inn with a nice fire going in the fireplace, another IN N OUT burger in my fat but happy belly. Julio Iglesias just came on on my iPod. Life is damn good.Ve...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:31:00 PST

At SKYWALKER RANCH

At the Ranch, mother****ers!Got in late last night after not following directions very well and having to drive through the city of San Francisco to get here, which is always interesting but not so mu...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:12:00 PST

PICTURE LOCK - The Edit is done, mother****ers!

Word to all.Final day of the edit here. Final day of the edit!Cronin goes home on Sunday for good so we are done, at least with major stuff. Johnny will still be here for another week but he is cram...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 12:42:00 PST

Getting down to it - PICTURE LOCK next week

Word to your sisters.Finished another version of the film on Tuesday. Super tight. We worked on a bunch of the notes that we got from the LA screenings, spending most of our time on the third act tr...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:26:00 PST

Hallelujah!!!

The screening went very well! Very well indeed.I was going nuts last night when Rob called and said that the film had just started and that he would call me back as soon as it was over. I kept looki...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:46:00 PST

Big-ass day today

Word.Huge day for us today. We’re showing the film to our agents at ENDEAVOR in LA, so this will determine a lot as to how and when this film gets out there. We all certainly hope they dig it....
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:05:00 PST

Director’s cut - just about done!

Word to all the sisters and the brothers.Cronin and I are sitting here working on Saturday, man, which sucks a great deal of whatever you can think of in your dirty little minds. But we're just about...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:51:00 PST

A disturbance in the edit...

Happy New Year! Man, it's been a while.Watching the rough cut of the film right now on a big screen in a Baltimore theater. The DVD transfer came out dark but otherwise, it looks good on the big scr...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:35:00 PST

Slacking in URBANA

Been back home for almost three weeks now, trying to get back in the swing of things here. Cronin and John came in early last week to start the edit so things are moving on that end, but I just haven...
Posted by Eduardo Sanchez on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 07:53:00 PST