Movies
A Look at a Very Dark Location for ‘Elm Street’ Shoot
B-D reader ‘Burnite’ just tipped us off to an article over at the The Times that reports Freddy Krueger is coming to Gary, Indiana’s City Methodist Church on Friday, and New Line Cinema will use the historic landmark as a backdrop for a handful of scenes for its scheduled 2010 jumpstart of the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. You can read more about the shoot and take a look at the creepy Church beyond the break. Any B-D readers in Gary, IN, feel free to send us an E-mail with photos from behind-the-scenes if you’re able to make it out!
Image removed, tears can be wiped off now
Don’t forget to E-mail us with photos from the set if you’re able to swing by and snap some spy pics!
The Times continues, “The city and the movie studio were in talks about the location over the past few months, but a decision wasn’t made until recently, said Ben Clement, who serves as executive director of the Gary Office of Film and Television.
Clement, who also serves as economic development and marketing administrator for the city’s empowerment zone, said the city’s board of public works and safety made the film shoot official on Wednesday.
In picking the City Methodist Church — at the intersection of 6th Avenue and Washington Street — the movie studio wanted an architectural style that would fit the story line of the film, and present a grand vision, said Clement. Landing New Line Cinema, he said, involved working with the studio’s production managers, who scout potential locations for a film shoot and lay out the general requirements for any location.
Clement expects between 150 and 200 production trucks, about 200 crew members, bright lights and lots of smoke for special effects used during the night-time shooting, which begins Friday night. And of course the star of the horror franchise — Freddy Krueger — will be on set as well.
“I expect it will bring some people over,” he said. “This is Hollywood.”
New Line is scheduled to returning to Gary in June to shoot on location on Tyler Street, which will be used as the backdrop for a dream sequence that in the film takes place on Elm Street.
This won’t be the first time City Methodist Church has served a backdrop for directors.
Gospel recording artist Dwayne Coleman shot a music video (watch it below) there, and Nobel laureate, Joseph E. Stiglitz used the church as a backdrop in the documentary Around the World with Joseph Stiglitz.
New Line Cinema’s remake of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, directed by Wes Craven in 1984, stars Jackie Earle Haley as Krueger.”
Don’t forget to E-mail us with photos from the set if you’re able to swing by and snap some spy pics!
Movies
’28 Years Later’ – Ralph Fiennes, Jodie Comer, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson Join Long Awaited Sequel
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland (Annihilation, Men), the director and writer behind 2002’s hit horror film 28 Days Later, are reteaming for the long-awaited sequel, 28 Years Later. THR reports that the sequel has cast Jodie Comer (Alone in the Dark, “Killing Eve”), Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kraven the Hunter), and Ralph Fiennes (The Menu).
The plan is for Garland to write 28 Years Later and Boyle to direct, with Garland also planning on writing at least one more sequel to the franchise – director Nia DaCosta is currently in talks to helm the second installment.
No word on plot details as of this time, or who Comer, Taylor-Johnson, and Fiennes may play.
28 Days Later received a follow up in 2007 with 28 Weeks Later, which was executive produced by Boyle and Garland but directed by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo. Now, the pair hope to launch a new trilogy with 28 Years Later. The plan is for Garland to write all three entries, with Boyle helming the first installment.
Boyle and Garland will also produce alongside original producer Andrew Macdonald and Peter Rice, the former head of Fox Searchlight Pictures, the division of one-time studio Twentieth Century Fox that originally backed the British-made movie and its sequel.
The original film starred Cillian Murphy “as a man who wakes up from a coma after a bicycle accident to find England now a desolate, post-apocalyptic collapse, thanks to a virus that turned its victims into raging killers. The man then navigates the landscape, meeting a survivor played by Naomie Harris and a maniacal army major, played by Christopher Eccleston.”
Cillian Murphy (Oppenheimer) is on board as executive producer, though the actor isn’t set to appear in the film…yet.
Talks of a third installment in the franchise have been coming and going for the last several years now – at one point, it was going to be titled 28 Months Later – but it looks like this one is finally getting off the ground here in 2024 thanks to this casting news. Stay tuned for more updates soon!
Five Underseen Vampire Horror Movies to Stream This Week
Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!
Looking for New Episodes of “Chucky” on Peacock? Here’s What Changed
‘The Blair Witch Project’ – Original Stars Release a Statement Asking Lionsgate for Residuals & Recognition
‘Mountain Man’ – Joe Manganiello Will Battle Zombies in Upcoming Horror Movie
