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**Sam_MC** · 11-22-2006, 06:43 PM

Finally an IMDB page!
Don't Fade Away (2007)

Mischa isnt listed though. IMDB sucks.

ETA:
On set photos:
Flickr: Photos from RaeBo

No Mischa mention

And this article:

Times-News sets scene for indie film

Film crews and cast, along with trucks, lighting and sound equipment, filled the parking lots and building Saturday at the Times-News for the filming of a scene in an upcoming film, "Don't Fade Away."

The independent film is the fictionalized account of the life and death of Chris Codd, the father of the screenwriter and director, Luke Kasdan of Brooklyn, N.Y.

Actor Beau Bridges portrays newspaperman Codd in the film.

"Last year my father got sick and I brought him up here to spend his last months with his family in Fairview," Kasdan, 26, said.

During those months, Kasdan experienced life in a more meaningful way.

"I wanted to do a film of value, that has meaning," Kasdan said.

Too many films today are skewed toward a value system of materialism and celebrity, he said.

"A lot of people looked at the script," Kasdan said. "Beau Bridges read it and responded. Some really talented people are passionate about the film and care about it."

Kasdan's father grew up in Miami, working most of his life in Tallahassee, Fla. Many of his family members moved to the Fairview area in the 1990s.

"My father was a journalist by trade," Kasdan said.

The scene filmed Saturday at the Times-News depicts the newspaperman's son clearing out his father's office after the father becomes too sick to work.

The son is portrayed by actor Ryan Kwanten, who played the lead in the film "Flicka" and soon-to-be-released Universal film "Dead Silence."

"The son is emotionally distant," Kasdan said of the character. "He left his Southern roots behind and found a successful career, but a shell of a life."

Mischa Barton, model and actress in the Fox show "The O.C.," portrays the "soulmate" of the son.

"She's a troubled young woman who interned at the local newspaper," Kasdan said.

Private investors financed the film, he said.

The photography shoots for the film will end after the first week in December in New York. The film will then enter the editing process.

"We will take it to film festivals," Kasdan said. "The festivals are film markets for distributors. If lucky, one will buy it and put it out in the world."

Times-News sets scene for indie film - HendersonvilleNews.com - Times-News Online

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So Mischa is probably in NY filming DFA?