PARKER COUNTY — Actors and crews were south of Millsap Tuesday and again today, shooting the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced pilot of “Chase,” which will air on NBC TV perhaps early this summer.

The pilot features a group of Texas-based U.S. Marshals – part of a team chasing violent criminals – who track a fugitive in Dallas, Fort Worth and across the “Mexico/U.S. Border near El Paso” in western Parker County.

The show’s team of marshals includes Kelli Giddish (“Past Life”), Amaury Nolasco (“Prison Break”), Cole Hauser (“Good Will Hunting”), Rose Rollins (“The L Word”) and Jesse Metcalfe (“Desperate Housewives”).

On Tuesday and again today, the actors, approximately 80 extras and many crew staged a Mexico/U.S. border scene on the old State Highway 80 steel bridge crossing the Brazos River.

The fugitive, played by Travis Fimmel (“The Beast” and “Tarzan”) dodges through and around vehicles and pedestrians on the bridge pursued by Giddish and her team. His character, Mason Boyle, eventually jumps into the muddy “Rio Grande River,” (really the Brazos) along with Giddish – or her stunt double.

Bruckheimer is know for action in such films as “Armageddon” and “Top Gun” and in the “CSI” television series. Other locations for Bruckheimer’s Dallas-based production are East Dallas neighborhoods and the Fort Worth stockyards, where they wove in and through the longhorn herd.

source: Mineral Wells Index