Mini Jim Caviezel Biography

Jim Caviezel was born in a close knit Catholic family and he was one of the 5 children of Maggie and Jim Caviezal. Even from an early age he was described as being very intense and he had two major interests: religion and sports. Due to his passion for sports, he started playing basketball and was very good at it, dreaming about one day playing in the NBA. Not only that, but he was also a very religious person and was always in church on Sunday with his parents.

Later in life, more precisely in 1984, Jim attended the Mount Vernon High School, yet after just 2 years, he decided to transfer to the O’Dea High School. In the next spring he transferred again, this time to Burien’s Kennedy High School, Washington. Because of his basketball skills, he immediately became a star in that high school and eventually graduated in nineteen eighty seven.

After graduating high school, he took classes at the Bellevue Community College and he continued playing basketball. Yet he experienced an injury that would soon shut his dreams of becoming an NBA player and that is when he shifted his attention towards acting.

In nineteen ninety he auditioned for a part in “My own private Idaho” and eventually won a small role, playing as a foreign airline clerk, after the told to the casting agents that he was actually a recent Italian immigrant.

Next year he decided to move to Los Angeles and between the auditions, he worked as a waiter. He managed to get small roles in Diggstwon, Wyatt Earp, the Wonder Years and Murder, She wrote.

Even though he was not well known, Caviezel’s popularity increased in nineteen ninety eight when he received great recognition for his role in the movie “The Thin Red Line” as idealist Private Witt. He managed to spark even more attention by playing in movies like “Ride with the Devil”, “Frequency” and “Angel Eyes”, which had him working with Jennifer Lopez. It was the role that established him as a great actor.

In 2002 he refused to do a scene in High Crimes, because it interfered with his strong Catholic faith and during that time he was selected by Mel Gibson in order to play in his upcoming movie called “The Passion of the Christ” which was very controversial. The movie became one of the best movies of all times in terms of profits and made Jim’s popularity levels skyrocket.

In June of 2006 Actor Jim Caviezel was taking summer classes at the University Of Notre Dame in order to get his college degree. On December 6th to December 7th he visited Bayside of granite Bay and he was part of an interview that Pastor Ray Johnston took in front of the audience, talking about the role he had in Mel Gibson’s “Passion of the Christ”. Jim Caviezel is currently working in a number of roles including playing the part of John Reese in the TV show Person of Interest.

Jim Caviezel Movies

Here is a list of movies that Actor Jim Caviezel has starred in from earliest to latest:

• My Own Private Idaho
• Diggstown
• Blue Chips
• Wyatt Earp
• Ed
• The Rock
• G.I. Jane
• The Thin Red Line
• Ride with the Devil
• Resurrection
• Frequency
• Pay It Forward
• Angel Eyes
• The Count of Monte Cristo
• High Crimes
• I Am David
• The Final Cut
• Highwaymen
• The Passion of the Christ
• Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
• Madison
• Unknown
• Deja Vu
• Outlander
• The Stoning of Soraya M.
• Long Weekend
• Transit
• Savannah

The Early Years of Howard McCain

Director McCain attended the Tisch School of Arts that is in New York City’s New York University. Howard McCain began working in the film industry in the year 1988 working as a production assistant on the film Lady in White and in the year 1988 and in the year 1989 film Suffering Bastards. He also worked as gaffer in the year 1992 for the film Total Eclipse.

He began his career as a director in 1992 producing two short films: Los Pollos which won in the best short film at the Sundance Film Festival and Truman another short film which also won at the Student Emmy Awards. In the 1994 he directed the film No Dessert Dad, ‘Til You Mow The Lawn. It is about a couple that uses hypnosis to stop smoking, and their children take advantage of the situation to control them.

In the year 1997 Howard McCain directed the TV movie The Unspeakable and another film Shadow of a Scream. In 1998 he also directed another TV movie When the Bough Breaks II: Perfect Prey. In the year 2008 he wrote the famous screen play Outlander, with Dirk Blackman who executive produced the movie and directed his best known work to date. The pair also co-wrote Amazon. Outlander was Howard Mccains breakout success film and it is a sci-fi movie that generated a lot of interest from fans all over the world.

McCain as a Screenwriter

Mccain is also a screen writer and he was the screenwriter for the movie Brats in the year 1992. In the year 2009 he wrote the screen play for Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. McCain has admitted to having a penchant for penning stories that deal with werewolves, vampires and other such like mythical creatures as he has great interest in such story lines and creatures.

The director is constantly working on new screen plays and has a number of screenplays and films in the works such as Amazon and North of Danger. He and his writing partner Dirk Blackman were hired by Lions Gate to write a screenplay for a remake of the movie Conan, which was released in August 2011 as the film Conan the Barbarian. He has other numerous screenwriting and directing projects that he is looking at. In addition to directing films, he has also directed TV movies for a number of TV networks such as Showtime, Disney Channel and HBO.

Howard Mccain has described the acclaimed film director and producer James Cameron, Ridley Scott and The Wachowski Brothers as his childhood filmmaking heroes whom he looks up to until today and have influenced him immensely. He describes his screenwriting as ‘magnificently difficult’ because you have to come up with a good story out of nothing.

As Director of Outlander

Howard McCain did a tremendous job as director of the movie Outlander. The movie was filmed in some locations that have very harsh elements. Some of the filming locations include Nova Scotia and Norway. And probably one of the hardest scenes filmed was at Kidston Lake, which was the scene of the spaceship crash site.

McCain also went to great lengths to make the movie Outlander as authentic as possible. He had a true viking ship constructed and he also had a professor in Iceland convert their dialogue into Old Norse which they then gave to all of the actors. McCain later admitted that it was hard to give the dialogue in the movie the right tone.

McCain states that it was even harder to complete the shooting scenes after an investor pulled out and they had to change shooting locations. However, as director, McCain was able to adapt as good directors are able to do.

For more information on Director Howard McCain check out his profile at IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes.

The film, which had an estimated budget of 50 million dollars, had a limited release in the United States. It first played in theaters in the U.S. on January 23, 2009. Due to its limited U.S. release, the movie only grossed $160, 641 in the United States. The theater release was followed by numerous DVD premieres worldwide.

The movie Outlander can be categorized as an action, adventure and science fiction film. Actor Jim Caviezel stars in the lead role as Kainan. Kainan is an alien whose spacecraft crash lands on earth in 709 AD. This is during the time that vikings ruled the world.

When the spacecraft crashed on earth, Kainan was transporting a predator known as Moorwen. When Moorwen escapes, Kainen must find a way to capture or kill the predator. He then leads an alliance with the vikings to kill the predator by fusing his advanced technological weapons with iron-age weaponry of the vikings.

Before Kainan is able to track down Moorwen, he is captured and held prisoner by the vikings. However, after Moorwen ravages the villages, Kainan forms an alliance with the vikings. Together, they try to destroy the predator. They finally find the Moorwen and defeat them. Kainen decides not to return to his home planet, but remains and becomes the king of the viking tribe.

In Outlander the movie, actor Jim Caviezel is surrounded by a great supporting cast. The cast of Outlander includes Sophia Myles (from the TV Series MI-5 and Moonlight) who portrays the character Freya in the movie, Jack Houston (of the Twilight Saga:Eclipse) who plays Wulfric and John Hurt (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) who plays the character Hrothgar in the film.

Howard McCain did an excellent job in directing Outlander. He, along with the cast listed above, made the plot of the movie very interesting for a science fiction based action movie. The movie was McCain’s first gig as a director since he last directed the TV movie Perfect Prey back in 1998. For going so long without being in a director’s role, McCain did an admirable job.

Filming Locations of Outlander The Movie

Filming of the movie was conducted in a number of locations including:

• Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Electropolis Studios Inc., Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Elmsdale, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Frenchman’s Cove, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Kidston Lake, Spryfield, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Kinsac Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Little Port, Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
• Mardalsfossen, Norway
• Nine Mile River, Nova Scotia, Canada
• Oakfield Provincial Park, Nova Scotia, Canada

These filming locations were probably the best ones chosen for filming a movie set during the viking age. Norway, Nova Scotia and Canada are all areas that give you that deep cold feel that you would come to expect to see in a movie about vikings. Even if it did include an  alien from another planet.

The production of Outlander was handled by Virtal Films, Ascendant Pictures and a host of other production companies. The movie was produced in color and has a runtime of 115 minutes. There is no nudity but there is a lot of blood in Outlander the Movie and the MPAA has issued a rating of “R” due to violence in the film.