Billy and Anais Yeager spent some months in the Route 66 ghost town of Two Guns, Ariz., to film footage for their forthcoming independent film, “Jesus of Malibu.”
Here’s an edited section of a report by the Bravo Television about the Yeagers’ experience in Two Guns. (Warning: one brief scene near the end of the segment contains adult language.)
Billy Yeager told me by e-mail that he and his wife are planning to soon head to the Sundance Film Festival to market the movie.
“We have filmed now for over 1 year, in over 15 states, so many thousand of miles, I had to replace a 4 truck tires and even this week 2 new RV Trailer tires,” he wrote. They’re now in Chappell, Neb.
As this story from a year ago indicates, Billy Yeager comes across as a bit of an eccentric. But I’m unwilling to write him off as a crackpot until I see his finished film. Plenty of other film directors — Werner Herzog comes to mind — have skirted on the edges of madness and produced great, otherworldly movies. Go see “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” or “Baraka,” and you’ll understand.