Film shoot one block away from my hotel (July 15, 2002)

On two occasions during my stay in LA I noticed the bright light beams sweeping from police helicopters above. The first time was in a bus while returning from Catalina Island (a police helicopter was probably looking for a few villains and swept Highway 110). The second time was from a low-hovering police helicopter during the 'gun-incident-in-the-bar' (which I'm not going to explain because you won't believe my story anyhow).
While returning from what was supposed to be my last night in LA, I again noticed a bright light, this time from Wilshire blvd. The road between Hope en Flower street was blocked by police men and security guards, while a impressive workforce turned Whilshire blvd. into New York 50 Street for a film called "Dare Devil". Even though it was around midnight, the whole area was packed with people and was so brightly lit that it seemed to be daytime.
I went back to my hotel room, picked up my Nikon camera, passed all security lines without any question and before I realized I was standing right in the middle of the film set, making some close-up photos.
It took at least half an hour before one of the security guys politely asked me: "Are you the new photographer?". Ehhh..... Nope.

Move your mouse pointer over this frame to watch a 20 second excerpt from the final Dare Devil movie.
This fragment roughly covers the hours I witnessed that evening

Film crew at work on Wilshire blvd. between Hope en Flower st.	A fake staircase leading to what is supposed to be the New York subway
A pneumatic machine is used to create holes...	...in the windscreen of a brand-new limo.
"All cars back to their starting point!" Hours go by while nothing really exciting seems to happen	"And....cut!" Hours passed away and in the end I decided to go to bed. About 8 months later the movie was released in Europe and I found out that all the action of that evening was compressed to less than a minute