While Cambridge homeboy Ben Affleck was busy filming scenes for his blue-collar heist
flick "The Town" on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at Grendel's Den located at 89 Winthrop St. in
Harvard Square, crews were busy hashing out the elaborate shoot 'em up scene slotted
to hit Boston's Fenway Park on Friday, Sept 18 and filming until Saturday, Sept. 26.
As previously reported, an inside source says that we should "expect gun fire and a few
cars exploding" in and around Fenway during production.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox are playing away games in Baltimore, Kansas City and New
York while Affleck and staff do their cops and robbers thing. Also, crews have
reportedly rented out the Howard Johnson Hotel Boston located at 1271 Boylston St.
specifically for the Fenway climax to house out-of-state production crews as well as an
exterior filming location.
Affleck, playing Boston's most wanted bank robber, is both directing and starring in the
film following a love triangle involving a crook, a bankteller and a FBI agent. The movie
is an adaptation of the Charlestown-based heist novel "Prince of Thieves" by Chuck
Hogan which was written for the big screen by Peter Craig and Affleck.
"The Town" also stars Jon Hamm, known as Don Draper from "Mad Men," as a FBI agent
who becomes smitten with a female bank employee, played by "Frost/Nixon" and "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona" actress Rebecca Hall.
Affleck recently filmed scenes at Neptune Oyster located at 63 Salem St. in the North
End as well as a slew of locations on Bunker Hill Street in Charlestown.
flick "The Town" on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at Grendel's Den located at 89 Winthrop St. in
Harvard Square, crews were busy hashing out the elaborate shoot 'em up scene slotted
to hit Boston's Fenway Park on Friday, Sept 18 and filming until Saturday, Sept. 26.
As previously reported, an inside source says that we should "expect gun fire and a few
cars exploding" in and around Fenway during production.
Meanwhile, the Red Sox are playing away games in Baltimore, Kansas City and New
York while Affleck and staff do their cops and robbers thing. Also, crews have
reportedly rented out the Howard Johnson Hotel Boston located at 1271 Boylston St.
specifically for the Fenway climax to house out-of-state production crews as well as an
exterior filming location.
Affleck, playing Boston's most wanted bank robber, is both directing and starring in the
film following a love triangle involving a crook, a bankteller and a FBI agent. The movie
is an adaptation of the Charlestown-based heist novel "Prince of Thieves" by Chuck
Hogan which was written for the big screen by Peter Craig and Affleck.
"The Town" also stars Jon Hamm, known as Don Draper from "Mad Men," as a FBI agent
who becomes smitten with a female bank employee, played by "Frost/Nixon" and "Vicky
Cristina Barcelona" actress Rebecca Hall.
Affleck recently filmed scenes at Neptune Oyster located at 63 Salem St. in the North
End as well as a slew of locations on Bunker Hill Street in Charlestown.
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Ben Affleck's 'The Town' film hits Fenway Park
by Roland Hansen
by Roland Hansen
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