After Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese wrapped up shooting of their new film in the area, it looks like Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames will be taking their turn. Shooting for the upcoming film The Surrogates begins locally this summer, and may last as long as a couple of months. As long as they don’t $#@! up my commute, more power to them.
So, what can the great city of Taunton deliver this film that nowhere else can? According to the article, they’re going to clean out “the old campus section of the Paul A. Dever State School, a restricted area containing empty and vandalized brick buildings”. Hey, that’s nice. We know how long it takes the locals to clean up after themselves, so they’re doing us a favor there. (Sorry, my images folder got accidentally deleted and that pic went with it.)
In it’s place, they are building “a set resembling a fully-formed community—including a garden, war memorial, greenhouse and radio station”. I never miss a chance to take a shot at Taunton, so the fact that they’re coming 3000 miles to build a set of a “fully-formed community” just makes me smile.