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Director Doug Liman tries to accomplish the impossible.
The 48-year-old filmmaker managed to get permission to have a military helicopter land in London's iconic Trafalgar Square for his latest film 'Edge of Tomorrow' and insists he only managed to pull that off because he was persistent and refused to take 'no' for an answer.
He told The Times 2 supplement: "It's easy to propose something outrageous in a pre-production meeting like, 'What about landing a military helicopter in Trafalgar Square?
"And the location manager will say, 'That's absolutely impossible. Two weeks before the scene they showed me the helicopter we were allowed to use and I immediately said 'That's not big enough'. And they said, 'It's all we could get, the RAF turned us down'.
"I said, 'Go back and try again'. And they did and eventually the RAF said yes."
Although film-making doesn't run smoothly Liman insists challenges and "chaos" help him better his work.
He added: "A little bit of chaos around me tends to bring out the best in my work."

Quentin Tarantino wants to shoot a film in London.
The 51-year-old filmmaker "loves" England's capital and would be keen to work on a project in the city.
He told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: "I love London and I want to film there. I could do a comedy there. I'm really obsessed with 1970s London."
Meanwhile, the famed director is in Cannes where he is set to attend an event to celebrate 'Pulp Fiction'.
He will walk the red carpet alongside Uma Thurman at the Palais this evening (23.05.14) before the crime film's special beach screening.
Tarantino will introduce the film, which first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 1994 and won the the festival's top prize, Palme d'Or.
He will also host the Closing Night screening of Sergio Leone's 1964 'Spaghetti Western A Fistful of Dollars'.
Tarantino most recently worked on 'Django Unchained' with a A-List cast including Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio and the film grossed over $425 million worldwide, making it his highest-grossing theatrical release to date.

Angelina Jolie kept banging into things on the 'Maleficent' set.
The actress' elaborate costume as the wicked fairy in the 'Sleeping Beauty' spin-off took weeks to put together, with her pointy horns proving especially tricky since they kept falling off and were so heavy she initially crashed around the set headfirst.
The United Nations ambassador told Collider.com: "The creation of it took a little time, to figure out how to do the horns and how to get them on my head and how to get them to stay. We used my hair in braids to nail it down. It was a head piece, with the horns. It wasn't like a headband.
"We'd put my hair in these little balls, and then you'd put the head piece over and pull the braids through, and you'd use that to anchor it. We had different horns. At first, they were too heavy. And then, we got them softer.
"We had some that would snap off because I kept banging into things. It all slowly came together. We tried different things, and some of the things didn't work. We had feather hair, at one point. We went that crazy."
Angelina, 38, would consider reprising the role in a follow-up Disney film because she had such a great time embracing the multi-faceted villainous character.
Quizzed whether she'd like to return for a sequel, she replied: "Nobody has asked me about that. I don't know. I can't imagine. I'm not dead, at the end of it. She's still there. I don't know. I loved playing her."

Drew Barrymore admits her friends became her family when she was growing up.
The 39-year-old actress - who is married to Will Kopelman with whom she has 20-month-old Olive and one-month-old baby Frankie - reunites with her '50 First Dates' co-star Adam Sandler in comedy 'Blended' which sees two families come together and the screen beauty insists family is about those who give you a "place in the world".
Talking to Variety.com, Barrymore said: "I appreciate that terms like 'modern family' and 'blended' have become familiar in the culture as ways to describe a pride in a family that doesn't look a certain way.
"I think that my family looks traditional from the outside, but I also know that I had kind of 'zero-point-zero' family growing up, and it was my friends that became my family and they gave me a sense of place in the world and they gave me tough love."
Barrymore believes families have "no rules" and accept you for who you are, being "supportive" and "honest".
She added: "I think there are no rules. I think of family as where you feel safe. It's where you feel supported, and it's where people are being deathly honest with you."

A Whitney Houston biopic is set for release in 2015.
Angela Basset will make her directorial debut on the movie, with the working title 'Whitney Houston', which will the follow the late star's rocky relationship with her husband Bobby Brown who she separated from in 2006 before their divorce was finalised in 2007, reports E! Online.
The Oscar-nominee is thrilled to be directing the lifetime movie and feels "responsible" for telling the late star's story following her death in in February 2013, when was aged 48, and accidentally drowned at The Beverly Hilton, with heart disease and cocaine use listed as contributing factors.
Bassett, 55, said in a statement: "I have such regard for both Whitney's and Bobby's amazing talents and accomplishments, and I feel a responsibility in the telling of their story. Their humanity and bond fascinates us all. I'm beyond excited to have this opportunity to go behind the camera and into their world."
'Whitney Houston' will be executive produced and written by Larry Sanitsky and Shem Bitterman, the team behind the 2013 biographical drama 'Betty and Correta' in which Basset starred opposite Mary J Blige.
She also starred with the late Houston in the 1995 picture 'Waiting to Exhale'.
Cast details for the film are yet to be announced.

Gareth Edwards will direct the first 'Star Wars' spin-off.
The 'Godzilla' director will helm the first of the standalone films, each of which will focus on an individual character from the film franchise, while 'The Book of Eli' writer Gary Whitta will pen the script.
'Star Wars' creator George Lucas' production company Lucasfilm made the announcement on StarWars.com yesterday (22.05.14), although there was no confirmation as to which character the spin-off would feature.
Edwards - whose only directing credit before 'Godzilla' was the low-budget 'Monsters' - has confessed that in addition to his love for classic monster movies, he's also a huge 'Star Wars' fan.
He said: "Ever since I saw 'Star Wars' I knew exactly what I wanted to do for the rest of my life - join the Rebel Alliance!
"I could not be more excited and honoured to go on this mission with Lucasfilm."
Disney previously announced that they intend to release a new 'Star Wars' film every year starting with next year's 'Star Wars: Episode VII', meaning the first of "at least three" planned spin-offs would be released in 2016.
'Star Wars: Episode VII', which is being directed by J.J. Abrams and stars original cast members Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, is currently shooting in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates.

Angelina Jolie asked fiance Brad Pitt before she agreed to cast Vivienne in 'Maleficent'.
The 38-year-old actress who plays the titular villain in the re-imagining of Walt Disney's 1959 'Sleeping Beauty' worked opposite her adorable five-year-old daughter who portrays the young Princess Aurora and she admits it was a joint decision with her hunky partner before she agreed to let the tot have the part.
Talking to collider.com, she said: "We realised that there was no way that we were going to find a four or five-year-old that I could be as strong with, that would not see me as a monster. Suddenly, there was Vivi, running around looking like little Aurora and everybody thought, 'Oh, the answer is right there.' But then, I had to go home and talk to dad. It's our kid, so it's so sweet. The idea of it was so cute to us, as mummy and daddy. But then, there was the fact that she would be in a film. All of that took us a second."
Jolie admits it was hard at times enticing Vivienne to do the right things but little one had the support of her whole family - including siblings Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and Knox, five - while she was working on the film.
She added: "The first day was the day that she had to catch the butterfly, and she just really didn't feel like doing it. I actually was holding the pole with the ball on the end, and bouncing up and down and dancing, trying to make her laugh. And daddy was on the edge of the cliff that she had to jump off, making faces and doing all of these things. And her brothers and sisters were egging her on. She eventually did it, but she was taking her sweet time, and didn't want to do it twice, certainly."

Hugh Jackman went commando in 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' because it's the Australian way.
The 45-year-old actor - who was born in Sydney, New South Wales - reprises his role as Wolverine in the film where he is whisked into the past and when he emerges from under the sheets he refused to have underwear on covering his manhood since that's not the way an Aussie man would behave when he's got a stunning female laying next to him.
Speaking on US Chat show 'Kelly & Michael', he said: "It wasn't written.
"[The movie] has wolverine travelling back in time to prevent something cataclysmic happening in the future.
"I land back in 1973, this is what the script says, I wake up next to a girl who I don't remember and I get out of bed wearing boxer shorts. I was like I don't know about America but in Australia if you're next to a really good looking girl you're not getting out with boxer shorts on or briefs or anything. So yeah, I went commando."
Jackman - who is married to Deborra-Lee Furness - was asked to wear a bright green sock to cover his manhood when filming but he wasn't keen on the idea.
He added: "They bought a bright green sock for me to wear and I was like, this is kinda drawing more attention than less. They said, no, we need bright green like a green screen, so if you bend over or turn around, and we need to erase anything, we can. I said that's even weirder. They said please put it on, but the end of the first take I was like 'Ermm, it's gone, I dunno where it is.' "

Quentin Tarantino and Uma Thurman will attend an event to celebrate 'Pulp Fiction' in Cannes tomorrow (23.05.14). The famed filmmaker and the 44-year-old actress - who was cast as Mia Wallace in the picture - are set to walk the red carpet at the Pala...