Peace

Despite the busy atmosphere, the area was chaotic. Actors were smoking and talking, while the crew was busy strapping the robot into place for the umpteenth time.

"Ugh, more broken straps", thought Jim.

Not for the first time he felt failure settling over the project. The list of the things that had gone right was much shorter than the list of miscues, breakages, and downright cursed events. The best thing to happen in weeks was that pending assault lawsuit from the former lead actress. Jim couldn't help but grin at that one though. It was a camel. Of course you're gonna get bit if you stand too close to it. The funny thing is that she must have gotten bit about twelve times. You'd think she woulda learned. Jim rubbed the back of his head where that hairy bastard had bitten him just that morning.

"Kim how much longer before you guys are ready?"

"Another ten minutes at least."

"What?! Why is it taking so long?"

"Look Jim. We've got a robot perched on the back of a camel without any kind of stabilizing mechanism. That puts all the stress of the camel's rolling gait directly on the straps and that robot isn't light."

Jim was stressed, but Kim wasn't about to take more crap from him. The shoot had been dragging on for weeks without much actual film to show for it and it just wasn't her fault. These setbacks seemed to happen without anyone causing them. Just plain old bad luck.

Kim looked past Jim at an approaching Range Rover. "That's all we need", she muttered and turned back to help her crew finish with the robot.

The Rover pulled up near Jim, but no one got out. The windows were heavily tinted, but he knew that the producer was in there checking on things. He hoped to God that things went right for at least a couple of hours.

"Jim, we're ready", yelled Kim.

"All right! Let's get this show on the road. Before we do anything else let's get some closeup shots of Peace on the camel before he falls off again."

"Jeez, what a pain", he thought. "No wonder no one ever tried to do a live action remake of Wizards."