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A traditional Hawaiian blessing marked the start of production of the reinvented CBS TV crime series "Hawaii Five-0."
Actors Alex O'Loughlin, Scott Caan, Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park attended Thursday's blessing in Waikiki. Producers and the rest of the crew were also on hand.
CBS calls it "a contemporary take on the classic series," which starred the late Jack Lord from 1968 to 1980. The new series debuts this fall and will air Monday nights.
Clips from the pilot, shot in March, feature plenty of action, the natural beauty of Hawaii and the pounding, iconic theme song. Kim said he thinks the new series will be able to feature Hawaii even more than ABC's "Lost."
Kim was one of the stars in the hit television series. It ended last season after six years of filming in Hawaii.
The former "Lost" star said he is excited to stay in the islands, which he has called home. Kim also owns The Counter burger restaurant at Kahala Mall with local chef and restauranteur DK Kodama.
Copyright 2010 by KITV.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
Press Tour 411: Highlights from 'Hawaii Five-O' panel
Jul 28 2010 04:31 PM ET by Vlada Gelman CBS: In attendance: Hawaii Five-0 leads Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan, and exec producers Alex Kurtzman and Peter Lenkov. * Will the third time be the charm for O’Loughlin? Yes it will, predicts the star of CBS’ short-lived Moonlight and Three Rivers. “I don’t want to take anything away from the other shows I’ve done,” he quickly added. “I’ve worked with some incredible people.” * Producers considered hiring a popular rock star to rerecord the iconic Hawaii theme, but they (thankfully) chose to work with the track’s original musicians instead. “You cannot change the original,” acknowledged Kurtzman. “It is the greatest theme.” And the best part? We’ll actually get to hear it! “CBS has been so supportive,” noted Lenkov, “with regards to us having a title sequence.” * “He’s sort of the unofficial mayor of Waikiki,” Lenkov said of costar Daniel Dae Kim, who spent six years in Hawaii shooting Lost. “He’s been an amazing resource for us and opened a lot of doors for us shootingwise. He knows everybody.” * Although O’Loughlin watched the original as a child, he didn’t want to step on Jack Lord’s territory. “I love Jack Lord’s McGarrett,” he gushed. “I love Jack Lord’s hair. I think he started Blue Steel, none of which I can get away with today.” He went on to say that his McGarrett will maintain Lord’s stoic quality.
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
HAWAII FIVE-0 STAR ALEX O’LOUGHLIN SAYS “THERE’S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT (THE SHOW)”
HAWAII FIVE-0 PILOT HAS NO TITLE BUT IT’S REFERRED TO AS SIMPLY THE “PILOT.” SUBSEQUENT EPISODES WILL HAVE HAWAIIAN TITLES
At the Hawaii Five-0 press event yesterday in Los Angeles, series star Alex O’Loughlin when asked if he’s more confident that his new series would do better better than his previous two CBS series, Moonlight and Three Rivers, he said “Yeah, I do. I don’t want to take anything away from the other shows I’ve done… But the team behind this…the two men here who are at the helm of this show, Peter (Lenkov) and Alex (Kurtzman), and the writing staff that we have, everyone feels so capable. I read the pilot, I did the pilot, and I saw what they did with it. And there’s something special about it. If this one doesn’t go, I’m completely bewildered. I have no idea how television works at all”…
Executive producer Alex Kurtzman told the media that ”The show is very light-hearted. A lot of it has to do with the banter between McGarrett and Danno…This is a show that’s meaningful to me because it’s a show my dad and I would sit down together every week and watch. In hearing the story there was the spirit of ‘Five-0,’ which is about a family…it’s an honest, good reason to come into the show”…
The producer emphasized that the new Five-0 is not a remake but a reboot…
“‘Remake’ suggests doing the exact same thing again,” said Kurtzman, one of the writers on last year’s Star Trek reboot. “In our experience doing Star Trek, you have to find the spirit of what the original franchise was about and really be true to it and expand on it and bring it into modern times with whatever rules will govern it. We had to make sure we stayed true to the spirit of the show but brings something new to the table that a modern audience would recognize. That’s why the word ‘reboot’ feels more appropriate”…
Hawaii Five-0 co star already has a second gig next year if the new series falters. Caan, son of actor James Caan, plays the cocky agent on HBO’s Entourage this season…”I’ll be back next year, but I think that’s the last season,” Caan told the media in New York… The outspoken Caan also let slip that he wasn’t initially happy intially when he discovered he had to go to Hawaii to film Hawaii Five-0…“I’m born and raised in L.A. and I like it. I didn’t want to leave…But now I’m getting anxiety about wanting to get back”…
In the pilot which was also shown to some Hawaii media yesterday, Caan and O’Loughlin have great chemistry and whose characters immediately clash when they meet. Asked how the off screen friendship is developing, O’Loughlin said ”It was an instant bromance”…
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
10 Actors to Watch & Why 2010: Part Two Posted by soothsayer767 on August 3, 2010
Name: Alex O’Loughlin Born: 24 August 1976, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Credits: The Back-up Plan / August Rush / The Holiday
Interest: Alex O’Loughlin placed # 6 on my list last year. I still Alex as an untapped resource on television. He has been pigeon-holed into his CBS contract. For me it was his turn as a vamp-detective in Moonlight that made me jump on Alex’s bandwagon. He then showed up as a maniac on TV’s Criminal Minds & in the bomb, Whiteout. Alex surprised me again in the romantic-comedy The Back-Up Plan where he is an unexpected dad opposite J.Lo. That movie was better that it should have been in my eyes and it had a lot to do with Alex.
Future projects: Next up, Alex returns to TV for the remake of Hawaii Five-O. All the signs point to this being the show that will finally get Alex out there. Every series he has been in thus far has cratered after one season. Hawaii looks very very different. Check out the clip below! D*mn this show looks like fun!
What he needs to succeed: Hawaii Five-O has to sing and become a breakout hit of the new season. That will bring Alex more movie roles. Personally, I want to see Alex in a major adventure movie. I want him to deliver that charisma he has and save the world. He’s a leading man just waiting to strike.
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
As I’m sure you know, HAWAII FIVE-0 will be the third go-around with CBS. Would it be fair to say you feel more confident this time around? Alex O’Loughlin: Yeah, I do. I don’t want to take anything away from the other shows I’ve done because I’ve worked with some incredible people and some wonderful showrunners. But the thing is there’s a reason things either work or don’t work in television. And I don’t know what the answer is. I just sort of keep blundering along to the next thing and hoping. That said, this has — the team behind this, I mean, the two men who are at the helm of this show (Peter and Alex) and the writing staff that we have, it just feels, everyone feels so capable. And having seen what they did with the pilot, there’s just something special about it. So I mean if this one doesn’t go, I’m completely bewildered and have no idea how television works at all.
Where do you start when it comes to tackling a role that is this iconic. Do you go back and look at the original series or do you just start from the script you’re given and take it from square one?
If you can remember, the old show was taken off TV 40 years ago and there’s been a lot of changes in television both in terms of the way we act stylistically and what we can do with special effects, stunts and all the rest of it. So it’s not a remake. We’re not kind of picking up where they left off. It’s a reboot, and the characters are very different. In the old show, you don’t know much about the character Jack Lord played. Whereas in our new show, you learn a lot about Steve McGarrett and I just did my character work based on the script that these guys wrote. In terms of character work, the old McGarrett was stoic and unbending whereas your take seems to be more colorful. How did you come up with that and what was your take on McGarrett’s version?
I love Jack Lord’s McGarrett. I love Jack Lord’s hair. I love Jack Lord’s version. I think he started blue steel, the look that he does, he’s awesome. None of which I can get away with today in 2010 on television! Look, Steve McGarrett, my Steve McGarrett is a little different. You learn a lot about our Steve McGarrett in the very beginning, and so I had a lot to work with stuff about his father, about his family, about his estrangement from them, about his military background, about the level of training that he’s done. I mean, it takes a lot of dedication and a lot of perseverance to get not only get to something like the Navy Seals but to actually get through and to be in the field with a team like that. So this guy, he’s a really interesting case study for me as an actor and as a sort of researcher of human movement. My job is character. That’s the only thing that I have any kind of control over. It’s the only thing I have any input into, really, I mean, at the end of the day and that’s what I’ve been trained in and that’s what I really enjoy doing. So I guess I came to this and did the character work that I always do. And I found a lot of layers to this guy.
Do you think it’s a reflection of our times that nowadays we can accept a leading character who is not absolutely good or absolutely bad, that you can show a flawed human being?
I think so. In some of the other work I’ve done, the other bits get cut out and they will show you one version of the performance that I’ve done, but I never deliver a performance on the day that is just one thing, because it’s inaccurate to all of us. None of us are just purely benevolent or malevolent. I mean, it’s not possible in human nature, unless you’re Ghandi. The more flaw you bring to a character or the more balance you give your character with flaw, the closer that character moves towards everyman, you know. And if that character is an everyman, then we can all sit back and relate to them like we can’t relate to a superhero.
Has your co-star Daniel Dae Kim been helpful in acclimating you to shooting in Hawaii?
He has. He showed me where all the good sushi was. [Interjects executive producer Peter Lenkov, "He's sort of the unofficial mayor of Waikiki"] That’s true, his poster’s in every shaved ice shop.
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
Off the coast of Oahu, Alex O'Loughlin, the trim, toned and tattooed star of CBS' Hawaii Five-0 reboot, is chopping through the waves like the former Navy SEAL he's been hired to play. His perfectly sculpted six pack glistens as he emerges on the shore wearing nothing but taut navy trunks. "I think we just shot what is going to be the most downloaded scene of Hawaii Five-0," executive producer Peter Lenkov calls out to his crew. "It sort of makes everything I do from here on moot."
You don't need a coconut to hit you on the head to figure out this is not your father's Hawaii Five-0. It's younger, naughtier and definitely more action-packed. Even the core characters—including O'Loughlin's Steve McGarrett—have been reimagined.
Lenkov, who'd overseen CSI: Miami and 24, partnered with Alias and Fringe producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, hoping they could do for the origins of McGarrett, Danny "Danno" Williams, Chin Ho Kelly and Kono Kalakaua what they did for Kirk and Spock in their 2009 Star Trek prequel.
Together, they reshaped McGarrett as a mercenary heading up an elite task force—a man not above implementing torture to extract the truth. "That messy boy stuff is what I like most," says O'Loughlin. "There are definitely Jack Bauer elements to my Steve McGarrett. He's not averse to methods others would be jailed for. I did a scene yesterday where I'm hanging a guy by his ankles 36 stories above Waikiki."
Scott Caan plays McGarrett's partner, Danny, a by-the-book New Jersey cop transplanted to Honolulu to be closer to his remarried ex-wife and daughter. "Our characters are set up to butt heads," says Caan of the new partners. "But we're alike in a lot of ways." So are the actors—who happen to have been born within hours of each other. Just a few days into production on the second episode, it's clear they've developed a tight brotherhood. Between takes, they kick around a ball with Caan's constant on-set companion, a Blue Heeler named Dot. "Alex thinks Dot's Australian," cracks Caan, showing equal affection toward O'Loughlin's son, Saxon, visiting from Australia for a few days. Says O'Loughlin: "You just hit it off with some people. And we did."
The other half of the Hawaii force is made up of two seasoned sci-fi vets—Lost alum Daniel Dae Kim, as disgraced cop Chin Ho Kelly, and Battlestar Galactica grad Grace Park as his cousin, badass surfer chick Kona Kalakaua. Enrolled in surfing school, Park's been pounded by waves and scraped by coral. Even more intense are the high-impact fight scenes like today's, in which Park is being strangled, slammed against a bookcase and thrown into a swimming pool with a blow to the face by a heavy bamboo pole. A good sport, Park quips, "I like the girl-on-girl action stuff."
For more with the cast of Hawaii Five-0, pick up this week's issue of TV Guide Magazine, on newsstands Thursday!
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
The original series lasted twelve seasons, so it'll be interesting to see if this 2010 version and its recognisable cast will survive as long. Three Rivers Alex O'Loughlin, LOST's Daniel Dae Kim, Battlestar Galactica's Grace Park and Ocean 11's Scott Caan comprise the show's attractive lead cast, whose acting credentials themselves should put some butts on seats to watch the reinvented series.
This fantastic TV billboard was photographed on August 16, 2010.
Danno gets a booboo By KELLY MAGEE August 18, 2010
Hawaii Five-Uh-oh.
Actor Scott Caan was flown back to LA from the set of the highly-anticipated "Hawaii Five-0" TV show last week with a serious knee injury, sources confirmed.
It appears he hurt himself while filming a stunt for the action show. Caan, 33, immediately underwent surgery for what is believed to be a torn ACL, sources familiar with the situation told The Post. The operation was conducted as an outpatient procedure, sources said.
Though it appears shooting schedules had to be rearranged, production on the CBS series, a remake of the hugely popular '60s show, continued without Caan, who plays "Danno" Williams, the No. 2 man to Detective Steve McGarrett.
"Yes, his injury will be noted in the story line," a spokesperson for CBS told The Post. "Partnering with someone like Steve McGarett, you're bound to get a few bumps and bruises."
The show says it has no plans to slow down filming to wait for Caan's return -- perhaps as soon as this week.
Alex O'Loughlin, who plays McGarrett, has said that filming on the series has been especially rough.
"I've been getting thrown out of tanks, beaten around the island of Oahu," O'Loughlin told celebrity Web site HollywoodNews.com. Caan, a gym rat and avid surfer, has had knee trouble in the past, but not to this extent, according to sources.
Filming on the series, which is being produced completely in Hawaii, began only a few weeks ago, according to sources at CBS. "Hawaii Five-O" is perhaps the fall's most anticipated new show -- not the least because it is based on one of TV's best-known cop shows.
Although billed as a revamp of the original series, several fan favorites -- including the theme song and McGarrett's famed one-liner "Book 'em Danno" -- are expected to make a return. Caan says he's never seen the original.
"I've made a point not to see [the old series], because I want to keep it fresh and not have any old ideas," Caan told TV Guide.
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I’ve always been a wildcard. Always have been, always will be. — The Canberra Times (June 28, 2005)
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