The Brooklyn Paper did the footwork and got the story about the film shoot in Brooklyn Heights last week. My Brooklyn Height’s source, who refused to be identified, told me that it was a Joel and Ethan Coen film that stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
But BP says that John Malkovich is in it, too. How’d my source miss that?
My refused-to-be- identified source also told me that they were turning the Heights into Georgetown.
With a little bit of paint, some movie magic and the blessing of the
historic preservation society, directors Joel and Ethan Coen
transformed State Street into Georgetown.Not only did the
big-screen brothers paint three brownstones pastel colors, but they
built two phony facades on existing buildings, added decorative
shutters on several others and built a brick wall out of plywood to
make the Heights look more like the Washington, DC neighborhood that is
the setting for their upcoming film, “Burn After Reading.”Some
local residents were ticked off, not just because the production has
already robbed the block of most of its parking spaces, but also
because they didn’t like the idea of Brooklyn standing in for someplace
else.
ok you can all stop masturbating now.
The movies have used New York to stand in for other places before. Parts of Love Story were shot at City College because “it looked more like Harvard than Harvard.”
The movies have used New York to stand in for other places before. Parts of Love Story were shot at City College because “it looked more like Harvard than Harvard.”
The movie is called Burn After Reading and it stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Frances McDormand. It is being shot on Hicks Street, Middagh Street and State Street over the next few days with dressing room trailers on Cadman Plaza West. The neighborhood is mixed about it. I for one and still trying to get a sighting.