Danny Greene, the man the Mob couldn't kill. It's the plot of the new major motion picture
Kill The Irishman, set in 1970's Cleveland but shot in, you guessed it, Detroit. If you drove past sets with exploding cars last summer, well, that explains a lot, doesn't it?
Kill The Irishman, starring Christopher Walken, Val Kilmer and Ray Stevenson (whom former Model D lensman Dave Krieger says he enjoyed working with: check out his editorial on keeping Michigan's film industry alive
here) will premiere at the brand-new Uptown Film Festival in Birmingham this Friday at 7:30 p.m.
We took a peek at the
Cleveland Plain Dealer, and, believe us, the locals aren't happy about this film being made in Detroit.
Excerpt:
"I really need everybody in the Cleveland area to know we simply
could not have made the movie at all if we had made it in Ohio," said
Hensleigh. "If they are upset about that, they should talk to their state
legislators. All of us wanted to shoot on location in Cleveland, a lot
of the neighborhoods are as they were. But it wasn't feasible. We needed
a huge tax credit, and Michigan offered a 40-percent rebate. This was
not an argument inside our filmmakers group. Had we not had that rebate,
game over. We had to go to Detroit."
What are ya, a wise guy? Read
more, or click
here to purchase tickets to the Uptown Film Festival.
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