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Dorchester becomes part of Michigan

By adamg on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 9:41am
1960s Michigan State Police car in Dorchester

Photo by Kieran Kelly.

It'd be pretty funny if you got pulled over on Gallivan Boulevard by the guy in this 1967 Michigan State Police cruiser, wouldn't it? Dorchester this morning is still standing in for riot-torn Detroit for some movie.

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Comments

By SwirlyGrrl on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 9:54am.

Aren't there plenty of places in Detroit to film riot-torn Detroit movies?

By Sources Say on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 10:00am.

Michigan no longer has a film tax credit, I believe.

By DapperO on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 8:43am.

The Film Tax Credit is a complete scam, which gives tax credits far in excess of the revenue to the Commonwealth.

http://www.mafilm.org/production-tax-incentives/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-whitcomb/taxpayers-cheated-by-film_...

By John Costello on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 10:04am.

They got tax credits to fill here and the minister and his wife at All Saints in Dorchester were willing to give up their house for over a month of filming. They wanted to use Boston crews and the city was willing to help get things done. In addition, the rectory of All Saints (209 Ashmont), a great house, gets a lot of renovations paid for by the production company.

It is being directed by Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break (The first one) and The Hurt Locker). John Boyega (Finn from the new Star Wars movie) and Jack Reynor (the older brother from that great movie; Sing Street) were on Ashmont Street two weeks ago filming scenes. All and all it went great and they were ahead of schedule. This is per my mother, who had a great time watching the crews work.

They are doing the most of the riot scenes reportedly in Brockton with having been in Detroit once and Brockton many, many times. Brockton is a good choice.

By ECG (nli) on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 11:45am.

New England Motor Court in Malden got some scenes a couple of weeks ago with a new façade wall, a pool and a great neon sign that must say "Algiers"). Last week the wall was gone and I assume that the sign will be too, if not already. The pool? Who knows.

By anon on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 12:34pm.

The pool was filled back in over the weekend.

By chaosjake on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 4:46pm.

I don't think modern Detroit is nice enough to pass for riot-torn Detroit.

By Omri on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 10:48am.

Odd. Detroit is a gridded city. Gonna be hard to suspend disbelief in a movie set in a "Detroit" where there is no such thing as a 90 degree corner.

By mediaseth on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 10:49am.

They used both a residential area and part of the downtown for scenes. There's one riot scene where it will start on a street in Brockton, but cut to look the other way and it's Lynn. Moviegoers not familiar with either downtown won't have a clue...it'll all hopefully be convincing as Detroit circa 1967.

By anon on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 11:01am.

for Detroit, prior to it's current apocalyptic state. Brockton immediately came to mind, even before I read the posts, as did Lynn, Malden, etc. Even east Cambridge or Somerville would work.

By Pepsigirl13 on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 11:48am.

at the Superior Court. Amazing to see what it takes to put together a film....they were staged everywhere with semis, tents, rolling racks, caterers etc. On Sunday I passed as they were bringing in the cast, all in very retro outfits and hair styles, presumably for a courthouse scene (given location, suits, dresses etc.) BTW presently on MV and they are filming parts of the Ted Kennedy/Chappy movie around island, although NOT on Chappy.

By 350125 on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 11:51am.

Grew up in the Mitten and I totally remember the police cars looking like this. Thanks for the flashback.

By Ron Newman on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 1:29pm.

Hard to see how Dorchester or anywhere else in or near Boston could plausibly substitute.

By Dot anon on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 2:00pm.

They film the actors in the cars close up, so you don't see the roads. Location scouts find the suitable roads for the exteriors, then those are shot wide.

They're not filming just in Dot. That could just be for the house John Costello mentioned. They can shoot all over MA and good locations managers can find everything they need.

By Michael Kerpan on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 2:43pm.

... except folks who live in Detroit...

By redheadedjen on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 4:10pm.

Downtown Brockton is being used for the riot scenes.

By Ari O on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 7:53am.

Michigan is the only state where highway patrol cars have a circular light on top like that. They still do.