159677 Resource 78724 78558 162077 1172363477841 1204997595489 Controlled Arapahoe Basin acts like Everest in the making of "The Bucket List"

Warner Bros. films scenes of a Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman Movie

<p>From the Arapahoe Basin Ski area parking lot.</p><p><img class="reflect" height="375" alt="Arapahoe Basin, movie set, skiiers , tourist" hspace="0" src="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/146/374872900_00dbbf5dc2.jpg?v=0" width="500" onload="function anonymous() { function anonymous() { function anonymous() { function anonymous() { function anonymous() { show_notes_initially(); } } } } }" border="0" /></p><p>Hello All,</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Last week <strong><a href="http://www.arapahoebasin.com/" target="_blank"><u>Arapahoe Basin</u></a></strong>, Summit County's locals choice for skiing, felt a touch like Hollywood.&nbsp;&nbsp;Ann Lukas owns <strong><a href="http://www.kftv.com/company-773651.html" target="_blank"><u>Blue River Productions</u></a></strong> and is the locations manager for the Warner Bros. flick &quot;The Bucket List&quot; staring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman.&nbsp; She&nbsp;filmed an &quot;Everest&quot;&nbsp; scene on the slopes of our smallest but most extreme ski hill (we have 5, yes, I'm bragging).&nbsp; Look for the climbing scenes in the beginning and end of the movie;&nbsp;&quot;The Broken Line&quot; is&nbsp;due out on November.&nbsp;&nbsp; According to an article in the Summit Daily News, our local paper, the filming took four days.&nbsp; Stunt double and local Summit County attorney Mark Thompson wore a one-piece 8,000 meter suit and oxygen mask for the shoot.&nbsp; Big scene filmers can lay images of the Himalayas in the background but they can not fake the light, frost and shadows of the alpine&nbsp;environment.&nbsp;&nbsp;Most of the lifts at A-Basin can quickly bring you above treeline making this an easily accessed filming venue.&nbsp; Read more <strong><a href="http://summitdaily.com/article/20070223/AE/70223009" target="_blank"><u>here</u></a></strong>.</p><p>Blog by Jason Brewer</p><p /><p /><p /><p><a href="http://summitdaily.com/article/20070223/AE/70223009"></a></p> 9 application/xml false Arapahoe Basin Breckenridge CO Colorado Jack Nicholson Morgan Freeman Movie Summit County The Broken Line Warner Bros. Our Local rag details this Hollywoodish event http://summitdaily.com/article/20070223/AE/70223009 Treeline skiing at it's finest http://www.arapahoebasin.com/ The Skinny on our local Movie making machine http://www.kftv.com/company-773651.html Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 jbrewer 66.198.200.154 false true false false true 205866 false false true false false false true 78724 blog blogsite/SnowHome/web