I found this video from The Philosophers Press Conference, thanks to fans of Bonnie Wright at Pottershots. Click here to watch it.

Various tweets from the cast of The Philosophers concerning the filming process!

gblagden George Blagden
Hair and makeup with @Taserhassan @katedangerfield @ChasingHope after a 3:30am start….. #becomingadiva

Taserhassan Taser Hassan
Just got o set it’s 4 30 and the beats are pumping bring on the day with @gblagden
2 hours ago

Taserhassan Taser Hassan
Looking forward to 1st day on set tomorrow up at 4 am
6 hours ago

katedangerfield Katie Findlay
That’s right #Philosophers cast, I’m talking to you. When I die, you jerks are 100% responsible.
10 hours ago

katedangerfield Katie Findlay
Staying in hotels for long periods of time with in-shape people makes you do crazy things…like spend half an hour on the elliptical.
10 hours ago

gblagden George Blagden
A medical and costume fittings at the studio today…the journey alone is terrifying! Saw 4 people on a scooter yesterday, one was a baby!
23 Jun

darylsabara Daryl Sabara
Doing camera tests today for The Philosophers http://yfrog.com/kf8gbej
22 Jun

darylsabara Daryl Sabara
My view from my hotel in Jakarta. Look Mom, I’m high up! http://twitpic.com/5ez7fr
22 Jun

Taserhassan Taser Hassan
Just landed in indonisia and off for dinner with the cast on a mad time zone #sleepneeded
21 Jun

katedangerfield Katie Findlay
As good a time as any to explain that I’m working on “The Philosophers” with the wonderful John Huddles and a bunch of other swell people
21 June

darylsabara Daryl Sabara
I guess now’s an appropriate time to update you guys. I’m off to Indonesia for 7 weeks to shoot a film titled “The Philosophers”
20 Jun

Found more pictures and info from The Philosophers press conference. The article were in indonesian (?) and was translated using Google translate, so the wording may be a little incorrect. I tried to correct the most noticable stuff thought. I bolded out things I found specially intersting.

Film The Philosopher, immediately attract the attention of journalists in Indonesia.
June 24, 2011

The reason is that the film is a Hollywood production, involving producers and foreign filmmakers, as well as the cast who have been involved in large-scale Hollywood productions.

This excitement was created about 2-3 weeks ago, when one actor in the Harry Potter series, Bonnie Wright, said in an interview she will be filming in Indonesia.

Boleh.com tried to do a little investigation and get various information about this film (own story)

The Philosopher, the film proved to be a production of SCTV, along with Hollywood producer, George Zakk and Cybill, this afternoon held a press conference, related to filming starting tomorrow (Saturday, June 25, 2011).

Located on SCTV Tower, 19th floor, Senayan City complex, a press conference of The Philosopher, was attended by the party of SCTV, the producer and the entire cast.

There is a Programme Director and the Production of SCTV, and Alfin Harsiwi Achmad Surya Atmaja, producer George Zakk and Cybill, director John Huddles, and the cast as Bonnie Wright, The Commander actor James D’arcy, former Spy Kids actor Daryl Sabara, Freddy Stroma, Sophie Lowe, Sanctum actor Rhys Wakefield, Indonesia and actress Cinta Laura Kiehl.

In the press conference, representatives of SCTV, Harsiwi Achmad, said they were very proud to participate in the collaboration, directly supports the production of The Philosophers, a Hollywood film class at the same time doing shooting at several places in Indonesia.

“This collaboration has significance to the world of television and film Indonesia. It’s not easy to gain trust so that the tenants of The Philosophers teams are sure to do the filming in Indonesia in the long term,” he explained in a press release Harsiwi.

Further Harsiwi explain this is a widescreen project and will be screened throughout the world, not only in theaters in Indonesia. However, when asked relates to freeze while playing a Hollywood terkain import taxes, Harsisiwi replied, “We’re optimistic. Obviously this film will get a distributor of world-class film. The film is still a long process, filming tomorrow, and then pass through various stages of production of other . So it is still long. However, we are optimistic will be aired in Indonesia. ”

Still according to Harsiwi, through the medium of The Philosophers, Indonesia get the opportunity to promote the name of Indonesia in the world of international cinema. And a promotional event that Indonesia has a natural and beautiful scenery, for seekers of natural attractions and natural.

So Harsiwi added, would be very strange if the movie is filming in Indonesia, it can not be aired in Indonesia.

“Wong shooting in Indonesia, the cook did not play here,” joked Harsiwi.

Meanwhile, producer George Zakk and Cybill, and director John Huddles said the film will be is about 20 teenagers who attended an international school in Jakarta, which follows a philosophy class. They consist of various nations and be taught by a teacher (to be played by James D’Arcy).

They then obtain a job, and an experiment of the teacher. Of the 20 students, they receive the kind of tests and then will choose 10 people, to then improve the human race against the threat of nuclear danger.

John Huddles, the film will also air-thriller genre and will be filming at various places in Indonesia.

When Boleh.com try to confirm the facts we can be that they will be filming around Central Java and East Java, Huddles smiled and said, “We will be filming in beautiful places, including in one of the temple.”

The Philosophers will start filming tomorrow and will take approximately seven weeks.

Neither party or parties SCTV own film crew was still covering the various details related to this project. They reasoned want to maintain the confidentiality and security film and crew, and promised to provide an opportunity to provide further information. In fact, they do not allow reporters to interview the actors.

Whatever it is, we enthusiastically look forward to hearing from this movie.

Source

June 16, 2011
Harry Potter star Bonnie Wright melakoni filming her latest movie, The Philosopher.

As we said before, The Philosopher is to be filmed in several places of Indonesia.

Places include Jakarta, Mount Bromo and the Prambanan Temple.

“The location will be in Jakarta, Mount Bromo and the Prambanan Temple.Application for a license have been received and his crew have got the visa here,” said Hadi Nurwan Section Movie Section Foreign non-story, when contacted via telephone by Boleh.com, yesterday.

The number of film crew is not too large, only about 30 people. This data was obtained from the number of visas that have been out of the Foreign Ministry.

The film will reportedly begin filming in late June or early July to August 2011.

Source

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Public Appearances > 24.06.11: The Philosophers Press Conference

Lisa Siregar | June 24, 2011

Hollywood has come to Jakarta with the filming of psychological thriller “The Philosophers” set to begin on Saturday.

At a news conference in Senayan, South Jakarta, on Friday, film producer George Zakk said he believed “The Philosophers,” to be set in an international school in Jakarta, was the first time Hollywood had shot a movie on location in Indonesia’s capital.

The producer of “The Pacifier” starring Vin Diesel said the film would “present Jakarta today as we will shoot the entire film in Indonesia, not any other place.”

Also present at the news conference were stars Bonnie Wright who plays Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter film series, English actor James D’Arcy and Indonesian Cinta Laura.

Cinta, who shot to fame on a local sinetron production but has most recently focused on her pop career, said she would “represent an Indonesian student in the film.”

Philosophers director John Huddles, who has previously directed the 1998 film “At Sachem Farm” starring Minnie Driver, Rufus Sewell and Nigel Hawthorne, said multiculturalism was a major theme in the movie, which revolves around a challenge to reboot humanity in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

“There will be students from Turkey, Iran, Australia, Africa, Canada, United States and London,” he said.

Wright said the cast had been in Jakarta for a week, acclimatizing themselves to the local conditions to help them get into character.

Television station SCTV has worked with the crew for more than a year to arrange the film’s production in Jakarta.

The film will also be shot at locations outside of Jakarta, though it was not disclosed where.

Source

Bonnie Wright did a new photoshoot and interview for Interview magazine and she went into detail about The Philosophers.

SYMONDS: And the movie that you’re going off to shoot next week, is that The Philosophers?

WRIGHT: Yeah, that’s The Philosophers. I’m off to Jakarta in one and a half weeks.

SYMONDS: Have you ever been there?

WRIGHT: No, I haven’t. I’ve been to a lot of areas of Thailand and Australia, but I’ve never been to Indonesia, and I’m very interested in the area and the locations that we’re shooting in. It’s going to be amazing. We’re shooting in the grounds of Buddhist temples and the grounds of massive volcanoes. All the photos I got sent yesterday by the director, and I’m just so excited to go and see these incredible landscapes.

SYMONDS: Can you explain your role a little?

WRIGHT: It’s set in an international school in Jakarta. It’s called The Philosophersbecause it’s based around this philosophy classroom, before they graduate from their last year of high school from this international school. Their philosophy teacher is very sort of strange and corrupt. There’s a thing in philosophy called “thought experiments,” where you basically imagine a situation that you go in as a group and put philosophical ideas into practice. We use our imagination, that we all create and think of, as this bunker that’s going to sleep ten people to hide out from a nuclear war, a [post]nuclear sort of world. And it’s all this battle between the 21 of us, the students and the teacher, of who should be saved, who should go in this bunker. It’s quite a psychological thriller; we flick back from this imaginary world and into the classroom. It’s very sort of analytical, about ideas and friends against friends, so it should be interesting.

The IMDB page for The Philosophers have been updated:

Storyline
A brilliant philosophy teacher at an international school in Jakarta manipulates his class of graduating seniors toward academic excellence through the use of mind games, emotional blackmail, and psychological assaults, stretching their brains right up to the breaking point. Written by Anonymous