By Iain Blair
Was hanging out with legendary costume designer Jim Acheson who was in town for a brief visit en route to New Orleans, where he’s giving the keynote speech to the Costume Society of America. Jim has won three Oscars - for “Dangerous Liaisons,” “The Last Emperor” and “Restoration,” and he also designed all the costumes for all three “Spider-Man” blockbusters. For the last few years he’s been living in Wellington, New Zealand - “so it’s quite a culture shock coming back to LA” -  and tells me he just completed “The Laundry Warrior” down there. “It’s a ninja western set in 1875, and it stars Geoffrey Rush, Kate Bosworth and Danny Huston,” he said. “Originally we were going to shoot it in New Mexico last year, but it was cheaper to do it in New Zealand and we did the whole thing in a studio in Auckland, and it’s all green screen and CGI. It’s very poetic and looks amazing, and was directed by first-timer Sng Moo Lee.”

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