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SNIPES WANTS PERMISSION TO LEAVE COUNTRY: Actor trying to film two movies while waiting for tax conviction appeal and prison sentence.
*While federal prosecutors attempt to force Wesley Snipes into starting his three-year prison sentence immediately, the actor is asking that a judge grant him permission to leave the country until his appeal on a tax conviction is scheduled.
According to the Orlando Sentinel, Snipes is hoping to go to London for post-production editing of his horror picture "Gallowwalker" and to Bangkok, Thailand, to star in "Chasing the Dragon," an action-thriller in which he plays a FBI agent pursuing an Asian drug lord.
Court documents filed by Snipes' lead defense counsel Daniel Meachum said the actor's failure to participate next month in final editing of "Gallowwalker" may endanger the film's scheduled release date and the movie star's "future livelihood as an actor."
The production schedule for "Chasing the Dragon" begins Sept. 8 in Thailand and is expected to last through November.
"Mr. Snipes will, of course, voluntarily return after his work on this film - as he has done each time he has been granted permission by this court," Meachum said in the federal filing.
In April, Snipes was sentenced by U.S. Senior District Judge William Terrell Hodges to 36 months in federal prison after a jury found the actor guilty of failing to file federal tax returns for 1999, 2000 and 2001, years during which he earned more than $13.5 million. He remains free on an appeal bond that has been challenged by federal prosecutors who want him jailed.
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