Other scenes were shot in the church of San Pietro in Vincoli, and in front of Michelangelo's Moses and the tomb of Pope Julius II in Rome. Hellman shot in the streets of London and traveled to Italy to shoot at Lake Garda. His daughter, co-producer Melissa Hellman, raised more money through private equity. Hellman still needed to shoot some scenes in Europe, but was over budget. Natasha Senjanovic of The Hollywood Reporter called the plane crash one of "cinema's top plane crashes" and remarked that, " is beautifully shot and comes as a total surprise". In post-production, film editors cut the shots back and forth of Rowell flying near the dam and the actual actor sitting in Rowell's plane pretending to fly in front of a green screen and crashing the plane into the Fontana Dam.
Rowell did eight to nine passes over the lake, flying 300 to 500 feet above the water. Jim Rowell, a Cullowhee resident got a deal with the filmmakers that allowed him to make a fuel pump repair at the airport in exchange for flying his 1966 Piper Cherokee four-passenger plane as a stuntman. Other shooting locations were done in Los Angeles. Students from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and Western Carolina University were hired as production assistants and also served as extras. Still other scenes were shot at Doc Holliday's bar in Maggie Valley, at the Fontana Dam, and at the Jackson County Airport. Several other scenes were shot in the Boyd Mountain Log Cabins in Waynesville. Scenes were shot at the Balsam Mountain Inn in Balsam for four to five weeks. Hellman shot with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II, which recorded 12 minutes at a time on a flash card (as opposed to 10 minutes with a 35mm film). On a budget of under $5 million, principal photography was almost entirely in western North Carolina (where the film is also set) between July and August 2009. Reluctantly, Gaydos gave Sossamon his card saying, "I don't do this often, but I wonder if you or your agent would contact Monte Hellman." Hellman told the Los Angeles Times that he dedicated the film to Laurie Bird, with whom Hellman fell in love while directing her in Two-Lane Blacktop.
Shannyn Sossamon was the first actor to be cast after Gaydos saw her in a restaurant rehearsing a scene with another person.
The film was written by Variety executive editor Steven Gaydos. Road to Nowhere was Monte Hellman's first feature film in 21 years.
The director falls in love with his muse, and the sordid criminal affair on which the film is based resurfaces. Put aside your expectations of what an American film should be, surrender to the film's rhythms, and you may well find ROAD TO NOWHERE one of the most moving and powerful cinematic experiences in recent memory.A promising young filmmaker named Mitchell Haven invites Laurel Graham, an unknown actress, to play Velma Duran, a person involved in a financial scandal that made headlines, in his new film. It's a film in which the plot is obscure, but the emotions are always crystal clear. The Amazon reviewer who complained that "There were numerous shots that seemed to last 45 seconds to a minutes (sic) which could have been cut down to about 10 seconds and the viewer would have gotten the same message from the shot" seems to have both got the point and completely missed it: Hellman is not interested in imparting plot information as efficiently and concisely as possible, but rather, in the style of many European films (such as Bergman's THE SEVENTH SEAL and Erice's THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE, both of which are quoted in ROAD TO NOWHERE), is more concerned with evoking emotional states and portraying the kind of behavior which most American filmmakers would consign to the cutting room floor. Maybe I'm biased (since I'm the author of a book about Monte Hellman), but after several viewings I'm convinced that this is the most important film of the new century.
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