I promised you a second post about my trip to the Covert Affairs set. Sorry it’s late, I’ve been so swamped with finishing Fair Game that I hadn’t gotten a chance to write. Last Monday, after landing in Toronto, I went straight to the elevator scene and spent the whole day going over every aspect [...]

Our TV show, Covert Affairs starts shooting this week. We’ve already shot a pilot, but now it’s time to shoot the series. I had hoped to direct this first episode but it’s just not possible because of the pressure to finish Fair Game in time for Cannes. The script of first episode is one of [...]

Last weekend, taking advantage of a small break in my schedule finishing Fair Game, I returned to Haiti for a few days. I went really to visit the friends I made during my first visit, who have not left since the earthquake, and to see how the people were faring now that the rainy season [...]

Director Doug Liman blogs on locking picture on Sean Penn and Naomi Watts political thriller, Fair Game, the editing process and the angel on his shoulder.

About a month ago one of my closest friends, John, was visiting me from Maine. John and I have known each other since we were freshman roommates and, after my father, he has probably had the biggest influence on me. So while John was there, I was cleaning out my apartment, following a renovation, and [...]

Doug is working with Jez and John Henry Butterworth this week to help him lock picture on Fair Game.They also went with Naomi Watts to see the Broadway play A View From The Bridge, which stars her husband, Liev Schreiber.

Sean Penn’s NGO, Jenkins-Penn Haiti Relief Organization, has an amazing team. They are volunteers who have come from all over to help with the relief effort. Most are not professional relief workers but everyday, extraordinary people who have dropped everything to come down and lend a hand. Of the many wonderful people down there, there [...]

Writing to you from Yale Law School where I am attending the Liman Colloquium named after and in honor of my father. This is the 13th colloquium. This year’s topic is incarceration so this ties in nicely to the research we are doing for Attica. I will be screening Fair Game for the attendees at [...]

So, I was working late last night editing Fair Game and was finally heading home at around 10:30 when I got a text from a friend who was at the premiere of Cop Out. “If you haven’t had dinner yet, there’s good food here. And people you know.” I ran into Adam Brody as soon [...]

As many of you know, I recently flew down to Haiti. This video is from my first afternoon scouting in Port-au-Prince and a walk through of the camp where we stayed with the US Military and Sean Penn, with whom I worked with on Fair Game and who has become a friend. Sean is doing [...]

Hi Ninjas, This is the first part of many videos from my Haiti trip. Fellow pilot and friend George Sampas and I flew doctors and supplies down to Haiti. It was the first time either of us had flown into Haiti — or into military controlled airport — but the flight down was the least [...]

Hi Ninjas – This is Julina, not Doug. He wanted me to tell you all that he’s on his way Haiti. He and a friend are flying down 2 doctors and a producer. The doctors are on their way to a clinic to help with the relief effort. Doug and his producer are going to [...]

I was in LA this week to meet with the many producers of Fair Game and to break stories on Covert Affairs, our upcoming USA series starring Piper Perabo. We did a huge amount research for Fair Game on the mechanics of the CIA plus of course also all the research for Bourne Identity so [...]

Got up at 4:30 in the morning Wednesday to fly up to Attica prison for the day. Attica is famous for its fearsome reputation as one of the toughest prisons and for the uprising in 1971 in which the prisoners took over the prison, holding guards as hostages, for several days until Governor Rockefeller ordered [...]

I spent 28 hours in Iraq. Every location we went to, the security team would say how many minutes we could spend at that location. They showed us the classified report from the day before of how many attacks there had been in the city. It was about 35 pages long. Little of this stuff [...]