any stories about movies filmed near you?

[tbizzle]

I thought this could be a cool thread. I think it's interesting to hear the behind-the-scenes type stories from the locals. I have a few:

Lucky Numbers, they filmed one of the snowy scenes at night in Sacramento and we were out to dinner near there that night. We got to see some of the camera crew, but no cast

XXX, they filmed the intro bridge scene on Salmon Falls Bridge, it's about an hour from my house. They had most of the roads up there shut down, so it took forever for us to take a side route. I wished we could've gotten close enough to see that vette flying off the bridge!

[Rovic]

Originally Posted by tbizzle

I thought this could be a cool thread. I think it's interesting to hear the behind-the-scenes type stories from the locals. I have a few:

Lucky Numbers, they filmed one of the snowy scenes at night in Sacramento and we were out to dinner near there that night. We got to see some of the camera crew, but no cast

XXX, they filmed the intro bridge scene on Salmon Falls Bridge, it's about an hour from my house. They had most of the roads up there shut down, so it took forever for us to take a side route. I wished we could've gotten close enough to see that vette flying off the bridge!

When i lived in south florida i remember they were filming on the highway right next to the place i worked at...2 fast 2 furious....i remember driving by and seeing the yellow and purple cars parked.....i think they were filming the scene when they were both racing to get that dudes cigar from the ferrari....

[Danger Boy]

they film several movies here (Spokane, WA) every year. most people have never heard of them before though.. forgettable films really. But it's cool to know that Samuel L Jackson is in town for a couple weeks and has been spotted around town at local restaurants.

to bad they didn't film Snakes on A Plane here.

[swingle007]

Filmed Tin Cup right here where I live....Saw some of the filming as a golf gallery spectator (extra) in a few scenes......Kevin Costner was very nice and gracious with all the fans....too bad Don Johnson was such a prick, I really liked him on Miami Vice back in the day!

[DetroitSportsFan]

Gran Torino was filmed about a half hour from me.

An upcoming film called "High School," starring Michael Chiklis and Adrien Brody was filmed where my wife went to high school, about 45 minutes away. There was also shooting done at a house around the block from my in-laws.

An upcoming Rob Schneider film, "Virgin On Bourbon Street", did some filming in Detroit.

[overdrive79]

They filmed one of the Larry the Cable Guy movies here in downtown Orlando, FL.

[Lacit170]

Mr. Deeds was taped in the town over from where i live... i go bowling in that town every once in a while... the scene with all the corvettes... i know someone whos car is in that scene.... also... this one is kind of lame... but The sisterhood of the traveling pants 2.... that was filmed at the college in my town....

[dmb70]

Back in the late 80's the movie Meet The Applegates had some scenes filmed here (Oshkosh WI), a few people I knew were back ground extras.

This past spring Johnny Depp's up coming movie Public Enemy filmed here as well, shut part of the downtown area down for a couple weeks re doing all the buildings 30's style. He came out every night & signed autographs for the masses, one of my buddies kids met him & said he was really cool.

[Crim122]

Patch Adams was shot in my home town, and when it was being shot I saw Robin Williams in Harris Teeter...and my mom would not let me approach him because she thought I would be annoying.

But she was probably right, I only knew him from Hook and Jumanji at the age I was LOL.

[mikejet]

I used to work near LAX and they close Imperial Hwy. right next to us to film Live Free Die Hard and Hancock. My old boss has spent shell casings from the blanks used on the set.

Also, I went to John Burroughs Junior High where they filmed I was a teenage werewolf.

[Sussudio]

Originally Posted by Crim122

Patch Adams was shot in my home town, and when it was being shot I saw Robin Williams in Harris Teeter...and my mom would not let me approach him because she thought I would be annoying.

But she was probably right, I only knew him from Hook and Jumanji at the age I was LOL.

haha i wonder why just joking, crim. i remember when they filmed patch adams there too!

[darkblueme]

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. It seems like there is always something being filmed here. All of the High School Musical movies used East High and Murray High School for the indoor sets.

Dumb and Dumber was filmed here. I've eaten in the restaurant where Jim Carrey imagined fighting with the waiter.

Back in the 80's, a teen flick called "3 O'Clock High" was filmed in Ogden, Utah. Savannah Smiles was also filmed here waaaaay back in the early 80's, and I knew a few of the extras who were in it.

Two of my favorite independent films were shot all over the state. The first is a little-known movie called "Rubin and Ed" starring Crispin Glover, who I've met several times downtown. He is a really decent guy. (I ran into him renting some movies one time. He's very calm and down-to-earth. Very appreciative of his fans.) The other is probably the worst movie ever made. It's so bad it's good, and it's called "Troll 2." If you are into bad movies, this one takes the cake. Every scene is horrible in some way or another. Watch it, you'll see what I mean.

The TV show "Everwood" is filmed primarily in Ogden, but I've seen the trailers all over the city filming different scenes and whatnot.

One of the Mission Impossible movies had Tom Cruise climbing up a rock in southern Utah.

Poolhall Junkies was filmed in the downtown Salt Lake City area and we now have a poolhall named after the film.

The 3rd Pirates of the Carribean film had a scene on the Salt Flats when Johnny Depp was marooned on the "white desert" alone on his ship. The same flats were used for scenes of "The Fastest Indian" with Anthony Hopkins, and Independence Day with Will Smith.

I'm sure there are tons more, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. At the moment, things are happening for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival up in Park City.

Someone told me Salt Lake is considered "Little Hollywood." I believe it!

[Edo]

The Dark Knight was filmed in Chicago
Wanted was filmed in Chicago

[darkblueme]

Here is a more complete list from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah#Film


Monument Valley in southeastern Utah. This area was used to film many Hollywood Westerns.See also: Category:Films shot in Utah

- Broken Arrow was filmed in Moab.
- Some scenes in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed in Moab.
- Scenes from Dumb and Dumber were filmed in Utah.
- High School Musical was shot at East High School
- High School Musical 2 was filmed in Salt Lake City and St. George
- High School Musical 3 was filmed in Salt Lake City at East High School
- Minute Men was filmed at Murray High School
- Scenes of "The Charlotte" from National Treasure were filmed at Strawberry Reservoir
- Footloose was shot in Payson and Lehi
- Three O'Clock High was shot at Ogden High School
- Independence Day
- Con Air
- Drive Me Crazy was shot at Ogden High School
- Carnival of Souls
- The Cheyenne Social Club
- Harry in Your Pocket
- Halloween 2 was filmed in Midvale
- Head, (The Monkees)
- The World's Fastest Indian
- Jeremiah Johnson
- Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
- The Eiger Sanction
- The Electric Horseman
- The Car
- A Life Less Ordinary
- Airport 1975
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Easy Rider
- Electra Glide in Blue
- How the West Was Won
- Stagecoach
- The Trial of Billy Jack
- Windtalkers
- Fletch
- National Lampoon's Vacation
- Rio Grande, (John Wayne, John Ford)
- Mission: Impossible 2
- Octo*****
- Thelma & Louise filmed in Moab, near Arches National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park
- The Sandlot was filmed in Ogden and Midvale
- Galaxy Quest
- Some parts of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were shot at the Salt Flats

Driven through and mentioned in Anywhere but Here
- Mobsters and Mormons
- The Big J's Burger scenes in Napoleon Dynamite were filmed in Richmond, Utah
- The ButterCream Gang was filmed in Draper, Utah
- Joy Ride Filmed in Utah though not in Salt Lake City according to the movie
- SLC Punk! takes place in Salt Lake City.
- Rubin and Ed was filmed by Director Trent Harris in Salt Lake City.

The Uinta Mountains, an extension of the Rocky Mountains runs east to west and has several peaks over 13,000 feet (4,000 m) above sea level. This is Kings Peak, the highest point in Utah.

Television
- In the Doctor Who episode "Dalek", Utah was the base of operations for the fictional character Henry van Statten.
- In Prison Break, D.B. Cooper buried his money under a silo in the Utah desert, somewhere near Tooele. Much of the first half of the second season involves the characters attempting to reach Utah and recovering the money.
- In the series The Visitor, the main character's spaceship was shot down and crash-landed in the mountains east of Salt Lake City.
- Everwood was filmed in Park City, Ogden and South Salt Lake.
- Regular production for Touched by an Angel was based in Salt Lake City.
- The CBS series "Promised Land" was filmed in a closed set in Salt Lake City.
- Big Love, an HBO television drama about a polygamous family, is set in Utah.
- In an episode of The Simpsons, Bart and his girlfriend drive to Utah to get married, because of the marriage laws.
- In an episode of the Nickelodeon sitcom Drake and Josh, after accidentally killing his sister's rare Cuban hamster, Josh Peck's character packs to move to Utah because "Nothing bad ever happens in Utah."
- Steven King's "The Stand", TV mini-series, was filmed at multiple locations in Salt Lake and Tooele counties.
- Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus Best of both worlds Concert was filmed in Salt Lake City UT At the Energy solutions Arena on October 26,27 2007.

[tjara03]

Originally Posted by Danger Boy

they film several movies here (Spokane, WA) every year. most people have never heard of them before though.. forgettable films really. But it's cool to know that Samuel L Jackson is in town for a couple weeks and has been spotted around town at local restaurants.

to bad they didn't film Snakes on A Plane here.

Hey I live in Spokane too!!

Anywhoo, they filmed Swing Vote in my home town (Belen, New Mexico). The main location was literaly a few blocks from my mothers house..
I used to bowl in leagues where they had Kevin Costner bowling.

I was hard for us to watch the movie because everything was so fimiliar is was kinda distracting..

[DeCkof54]

They filmed "The Winning Season" with Emma Roberts and Sam Rockwell here in Hicksville, NY. A few scenes were shot at my younger brothers high school.

They also shot "The International" with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts at JFK airport, I was an extra on that film.

And obviously, they shoot many movies in NYC, but I've personally seen the filming of Sex and The City and The Love Guru ( they shot some stuff in a green screen studio in Chelsea ).

[Meeklo]

I live in Austin, TX which is Hollywood, jr.

About ever other movie is being filmed here. Some stories I have are:

My Boyfriend's Back was filmed at my middle school. (In Round Rock, just north of Austin and home to Dell Headquarters.)

I was in the Tommy Lee Jones' "Man of the House" when it was filmed on the UT campus.

I met Quentin Tarantino at a bar when he was in town filming Grindhouse (Death Proof).

One of my friends was the guy holding Benicio Del Toro's head when it exploded in Sin City.

Other movies filmed here: Spy Kids 1-3, Dazed and Confused, Office Space, The Ringer....pretty much anything by Robert Rodriguez, Richard Linklater, and Mike Judge.

[LifeOfAPirate13]

The Dark Knight was filmed in Chicago, Home Alone 2, The Unborn was also filmed here, as well as aoubt 1000 other movies. The new Johnny Depp film was also shot here too. Chi-town LOVE!

[Rovic]

Oh i also remember them filming "That thing you do" with Tom Hanks at the old downtown in orange years wayyy back....and some scenes of "Big Momma's House" with those older but big houses also in orange....

[JamesKurtovich]

Originally Posted by Crim122

Patch Adams was shot in my home town, and when it was being shot I saw Robin Williams in Harris Teeter...and my mom would not let me approach him because she thought I would be annoying.

But she was probably right, I only knew him from Hook and Jumanji at the age I was LOL.

Wow. No way my mom could've contained me. I loved Hook and Jumanji..

Well, First Blood was filmed somewhere in Western Washington state.. so was the Sandra Bullock movie 'Vanished' (she disappeared at a Texaco in Snoqualmie).