Thunderbirds Is ‘Tremendous’

A month or so ago, Empire magazine interviewed director James Cameron and the subject of Bill Paxton came up. ''Someone like Bill Paxton or Arnold Schwarzenegger understands [the rigours of action movies],' he told us back then. 'They don't call that tough shit an adventure. They just call it Tuesday.' Well it's now Friday and Empire Online caught up this morning with Mr Paxton en route to Dover Castle for a day out from filming his latest endeavour, the Thunderbirds movie. Ostensibly our talk was about his directorial debut Frailty, which is coming out on DVD in the UK this month but in-between we did manage to find out a little bit more about Thunderbirds which he's been shooting with director Jonathan Frakes at Pinewood. 'I've got one more day left on Thunderbirds,' Bill told us. 'It's going to be tremendous. You heard it from me first.' 'Thunderbirds is about the International Rescue and The Hood and in a way it's got an innocent charm