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Things are heating up for a location needed to help bring a movie project to East Tennessee. A trip by the producers and location people is expected to take place as early as the weekend of the 17th and 18th of May (no rush here).

Do understand: They are planning to severely damage or destroy this farm house. Negotiations for any compensation will be handled between the property owner and the producers. This is an independent made-for-TV film.

The other requirements for the house were copied and pasted from their emails and are included below:

1 - We'd need to be free to basically destroy it: Tear down walls/porch roofs/entire sections of the house and/or remodel it.

2 - The house needs to be two stories, but also fairly small and compact in a simple rectangle/square design.

3 - The ceilings of the ground floor would have to be pretty high and, likewise, the second story and the windows for the second story would have to be as high up from the ground as possible. ie Though it needs to be fairly small in terms of square-footage, we need a tall house, one in which people on the second story couldn't easily leap down from. (Or be really quickly lowered down on a sheet, in Bird's case.)

4 - The main room downstairs (as well as the stairs themselves) must be configured in a very specific way.

5 - The house needs to be in the middle of nowhere all by itself with no other signs of civilization in sight. It needs to be in an open field with woodlands facing the front the door. The road leading to it needs to be dirt. The road can't split off past the house to imply that other houses are nearby.

“The living room needs to at least resemble the diagrams, though of course, it doesn't have to be spot on down to the tiniest measurement. The most important things are that it's a big, wide, deep room with lots of floor space (comparable to the footage in the diagrams), that the stairs are in the room extending up along one wall, and that they disappear into the ceiling. (ie The top of them isn't visible from the floor of the room, unless you're standing right in front of the stairs.)

From the living room, Sade needs to leap out a ground floor window on the wall adjacent to the front door. If there isn't a window on the adjacent wall and there's instead another room on the other side of the wall, then we need to be able to tear down that wall and make the living room and that new room one big open area in order for the front door to have a window adjacent to it.

We might need to tear down entire walls, tear down the porch (there can't be a porch roof for Bird or Carter to escape out onto), make new windows, tear down stairs and rebuild them differently (and maybe in a different spot), etc. Stuff like that.

And no matter what house we get, we'll need to tear down a large portion of the entire front wall of the bottom floor, exposing the living room to the outside, so we can shoot into the room like it's a dollhouse. (We'll shoot this last, obviously. :)

So though we wouldn't exactly be bulldozing the entire structure to the ground, we'd certainly be leaving it in a pretty destroyed state. (Especially considering an entire portion of the front wall will be missing and the bottom floor will be open to nature.)

“Finding a house that fits the guidelines of what we need just became our biggest challenge, so we'll probably spend the greatest amount of time checking out houses during the trip”.