According to the Associated Press, Shea, along with Patrick McGonagle, Michael OHalloran, Stephen Burke, and Matthew McDonald, were all from the same Craig: I was a struggling crime writer. For the film, Affleck talked to locals, visited the maximum-security prison MCICedar Junction, and consulted with the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force in Boston. With a relatively modest budget of $37 million, he made a classic heist flick thats well, porn for New Englanders: the heavy Boston accents; the scene in a Dunkin Donuts; and, oh yeah, the fact that a crew of robbers takes down Fenway Park. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. Oct 31, 2012. We all want to drive a f----n caaar like Gloansy. Crockett: As he puts it, you have so many fame chips you can use. He said, Theyre looking for guys like you. And so I went over and I read a few lines, they took my picture. But they said, We have this project that we think youd be right for. Then they look up to find a Boston cop reading a newspaper in his police car. And then a few months later I got a call and they were like, Oh, we want you to come back in and audition for the director. I show up at this office in Cambridge to go in and read and all of a sudden I see Ben Affleck walk in. It was kind of a moment for them. So if you give somebody a space, all they want to do is figure out how to do a heist in there. But John is obviously a much bigger guy. Thats how you drive a f----n caaar, declares the getaway driver, Gloansy (played by rapper Slaine). And so if you cant do it, just dont do it. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. Theres like four people in the whole bar, which is a huge bar. Particularly commercial success. Extremely plausible. Oceans Eleven set the cinematic standard for a heist team. It is sloppy, sleazy, quickie. The Town was initially supposed to end with Doug paying for his sins with his life. They ran mass auditions of up to 1,000 people at a time, Affleck recalls. I showed Ben the skeleton and Ben said to me, How can we make it look tougher? And I said, Why dont we put them in tactical gear? And so that started this riff, this juxtaposition of skeletons and tactical gear. Two armored car guards were shot to death in New Hampshire in 1994 during one of the robberies. And they led me into this little alleyway. the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year Affleck: I was able to get access to the FBI and the division that chased and caught most of these armored car robbers, particularly in Charlestown. Matheson: Weve had this official tour [of Bostons FBI office] and as were leaving, I notice a picture across the room, pasted to the wall, of a person in a mask, from the CC TV. Whats the best way to get there?. A Boston bank robber looks for a way out of his criminal lifestyle after beginning a passionate romance with the woman that his gang briefly took hostage. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Thats where I got my best stuff. Around 3 p.m., two armed men robbed the Hingham Institution for Savings on Charles Street, according to police spokeswoman Rachel McGuire. I call them No R movies, Hogan says. They were shooting a scene. Its something Ive seen other directors do. And to that end, its 100 percent on Ben. [Through a representative, Renner declined to be interviewed for this article.]. Boston Police report arresting Thomas Hickey, 49, of Charlestown, for a Nov. 30 bank robbery on Austin Street in which he allegedly pushed an elderly man who was in line before him out of the way at a teller window.. Police report arresting And a lot of older actors, [when theyre] told, Go here, do this, a lot of these guys are like, Fuck off. Afflecks crew of bank robbers needed genuine local flavor. You werent sure exactly what he was gonna do, or how he was gonna behave, because it wasnt Matt Damon, whos always the hero and always wins out in the end. They like walking out with a little bit of hope. I walked the city for something like two, three hours, and by the end of it, I realized two things: The first thing was, I really like the movie and I cant wait for it to come out. In so many ways, the project came along at the exact right time. The bank robbers, who were very much an element of life in the neighborhood for decades, have been gone for 15 years, replaced by a new Charlestown where gentrification has taken hold and the more accurate stereotype of the moment is: Oh, you must be a yuppie. I thought I had something to add to it. We did all that kind of stuff. Afflecks reluctant bank robber Doug desparately wants to redefine himself as a serious Hollywood player after misfires like Gigli and Jersey Girl. Shooting there had been a condition of Afflecktaking on the film. But not everyone was happy with the image of Charlestown given toa generation of moviegoers. It was really more of an erotic thriller: The criminal who falls in love with the captive kind of thing. For instance, the shot in which a cop supervising a traffic stop takes one long look at a carload of nun-masked robbers and turns the other way? And for better or worse, it was also a hit thatin addition to tax incentiveshelped temporarily cement Massachusetts as Hollywood East. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. He gave me so much ammunition all the time to play off and to feel. Carter: Someone was getting married. And so yes, they rob Fenway, but its not like hes running across the outfield getting tackled by Tom Brunansky with a bag of money in hand. Stockard: The movie that we thought about was [Michael Manns] Heat. Affleck: That was fascinating. Affleck: I certainly didnt want to set myself up to fail, say yes I could do something, shortchange myself [and] produce a substandard sequence because I didnt have the time. After a seven-day trial, they were convicted on 54 of 55 counts of robbery, including one which resulted in the death of two armored car guards. He was like, Thats me. WebIn a stroll of Charlestown on a sunny day, its hard to believe this tiny Boston neighborhood could be the bank robbery capital of America the Warner Bros. hype about Ben A long moment passes with intensity. The robbers FBI responds to bank robbery on NW Side. Affleck gives the gang its last hurrah on-screen. What it allowed me to do is privately observe the prison population. September 2009. So unexpected. Most of the heists in The Town were inspired by real crimes from that era. Hes part of John Hamms FBI crew. Burch: We did it during off days. Its not the same town as it was in the early 1990s and the 1980s.. When its done great its Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. Hes not someone that blends in easily. It was like a different world, the actor and filmmaker says. The funny thing isand I found this out laterhe met John Cena for that role. Hall: Youd be shooting this tiny little intimate scene, Ben and I, and Id look to my left and there were but thousands of people watching the set. It was concealing a character-based drama centered around themes that I was interested in, particularly the theme of children paying for the sins of their parents, Affleck says. These words flash up on screen at the opening of Ben Afflecks 2010 crime thriller,which follows a crew of Boston robbers as they rise fromlocal bank jobs to a hit on Fenway Park. Every take had the same amount of tension and edge but it was just all over the place. But No R.. But instead, Affleck went with something more bittersweet. Hogan: I was playing on a softball team, and this friend, he works for one of the prisons here and he was walking by someones desk and they had a picture of Ben Affleck on her screen saver. Determined to get a better grip on the place, he brought in another local, his old school friend Stockard, and began an intensive period of research. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. I wanted to be a part of that. And they were like, Just so you know, weve had some calls and threats of violence. People didnt know what the book was, I think they were expecting something that would really knock Charlestown. Affleck: What I liked about [the book] was that it was similar to [Dennis Lehanes] Gone, Baby, Gone in that I both could use the bones and the structure of the story and there was good dialogue and interesting characters in there, but also they kind of inspired me to create more and add on to it. The only time I attempt it is when Im basically making fun of Ben, his character, about the Stah Mahket. Thats what makes it great. Affleck: Hockeys such a big thing in Charlestown. The violent film starring Jeremy Renner, John Hamm and Ben Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? Or do we want to give him a chance to live and a better life? I said, Is there any way in hell that you can imagine that someone would ever rob a bank if theyre from Charlestown dressed as a nun? And the FBI agent I was meeting with turned to me and said, You know what, thats not a bad idea at all. And thats where that idea started. I came back and met with Ben, and I was so excited. Welliver: The upside of that is everybody is rooting for him. Al Pacinos Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon wants enough money to give a better life to his wives. The cunning group is robbing city banks to steal money and making the getaway with diamond Heist. He claims that Ben Affleck played him in the movie, but now this former bank robber i. They had all these Blaupunkts. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. They blew it up and both sides of the street, all the brick buildings were totally covered in soot. The whole reason Matt and I wanted to do Good Will Hunting was kind of as an acting reel so that we could get jobs as actors. If youre gonna make a film of it, you have to add something to it, or try to. Carter: They were looking at Chris Pine in the very beginning, because of course Star Trek had just come out. Its not wedding bells which break up the old gang in Ben Afflecks The Town, its witness protection. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. They dont fink. Its not just an accent, its more of an attitude. Provo, UT, United States () -Provo Towne Center 1200 Towne Centre Blvd Ste B. Welliver: Weve got a couple of great little homages to The Friends of Eddie Coyle when theyre in Fenway: You live at such and such a street Thats completely Alex Rocco talking to the bad guy and hes saying like, We have your wife and your children are in the house. Affleck never had so much fun, One blue-collar Boston neighbourhood has produced more bank robbers and armoured-carthieves than anywhere in the world: Charlestown.. The guests ran for cover. Jon Hamm (FBI special agent Adam Frawley): I knew he had some serious Boston cred. Ill use them because Im from Boston to get into Fenway. Hamm: We had this 15-day stretch where we had to shoot at Fenway. You know, the Kennedys kind of had their own weird accent. The movie opened on September 17, 2010, to overwhelmingly positive reviews and eventually grossed $154 million at the worldwide box office. Affleck: There have been a lot more New York city movies than there have Boston, for sure. So many broke the code, shattered the code. I think its ripe for the picking. Just because the echo in the ballpark. It was actually in the book. Now, William shares his story after his Caught in Providence case went viral. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. Claire represents the real problem at the center of the proceedings. Iran. You couldve just called me.. Maybe its not balls; maybe cocky is the right word to describe him. And they walked me over to this locked door and once you opened it, there was an old, dusty cobwebby circular staircase. In the film, the crew get away, largely thanks to the kind of driving that puts Daniel Craig to shame. They had seen Gone Baby Gone, which opened in like sixth place to $5 million or something and wasnt seen widely. McCoy, 29, was reportedly a member of the Utah Air Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. So we wrote parts for characters with Boston accents because we thought that was something that we could do well and that you saw done badly. This was a garage that We did not have legal clearance to use the logo. But does it? If they get popped, they do the time. WebThe Town (2010) is a heist film that follows a group of bank robbers in Charlestown, Boston, and the law enforcement personnel attempting to stop them. The Friends of Eddie Coyle starred Robert Mitchum in the title role and Peter Boyle as a hitman who ran a bar. All three were 25 or under. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. Afflecks Doug MacRay, the leader of the gang, is the one whos gotten tired of the life. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . Free shipping for many products! You dont know where they come from. . Hes crazy. Hes from Modesto, and hes kind of got that bulldog, kind of dirtbag sensibility. But it was very real. Just let me go in. She opened the door and I just walked in and Ben was there and he just burst out laughing. Affleck: The Red Sox were really smart and understood how vital and central their organization was and is to the city, and they loved the idea of it. Slaine: Im convinced my hearing is still not the same after that film. The car chases get stuck in traffic, and the dialogue comes directly from testimony. Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. When I saw it, I thought, Its fine. I wound up learning a lot from how Ben did that. Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. Because along with watching the movie, I was working hard to process it. Jem is his right hand muscle, and unquestioning backup. And it is a bit like visiting royalty there, for me, in a way that I dont get in any other town or city in the world. He was the leader that he is. So I was thrilled. It later served as inspiration for the Massachusetts natives third book. [1] Originally called Mishawumby the Massachusetttribe, it is located on a peninsulanorth of the Charles River, across from downtown Boston, and also adjoins the Mystic Riverand Boston Harborwaterways. Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. A U.S. District Court jury delivered guilty verdicts on 54 of 55 counts, including ones charging the five in the Aug. 25, 1994, robbery in Hudson in which two I went in to audition. They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. Both robbers were shot, one in the back and one in the head, and the getaway driver promptly rear-ended a parked car. WebDouglas "Doug" MacRay is a former career criminal and professional bank robber from Charlestown, Boston, which was the bank robbery capital of the world. The former bank robber-turned-aspiring-movie producer who tried to claim it is back to prison. Affleck also embarked on a series of interviews with locals, including convicted robbers and members of the FBI violent crimes force. He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. I wasnt really in the movie world. It all went to the actual production of the movie. Afflecks second film as a director charts the fall of a mythic heist gang and the streets which made them. Affleck: I was very self-conscious about being limited to being the Boston guy. He also ran afoul of the law himself, recruiting real ex-cons as extras and giving them guns. For example, with my brother [Casey] in Gone Baby Gone, I thought it really benefited from the fact that he wasnt so well-known. In Stanley Kubricks The Killing (1956), a marriage-minded Sterling Hayden leads a crew to take down one last racetrack for $2 million. And everyone was like, Ah, you cant, really. But if Charlestowns present reality as a yuppie stronghold is easy to establish, its past status as a mythical crime mecca is difficult to entirely dismiss. Burke: I was at a point where I was still looking for what I was gonna do with my life. The two banks Id been in good ones and bad ones, but I knew that it took time, that they were the result of the assembly of a lot of little pieces. The productions biggest scoop, location-wise, was being granted permission to shoot the Fenway Park heist scene in the real Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Whats better than that? In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. Crockett: He knew from the beginning that [Magloan] was gonna be Slaine. And so I think at first we were sort of like, Oh, how can we not be Heat? And at some point we said, Look, embrace Heat. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp plays South Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger, an Irish gangster who informed on the Italian mob to the FBI. Its more general American but with a kind of East Coast, sort of slightly privileged vibe. Craig: I hadnt really processed the new ending. The story was much clearer and cleaner. There are three tiers of cells. Burke: It was not on my radar at all. Tuesday October 30, 2012. Yes Charestown, MA is known for Bank robbers. And this was toward the end of the shoot. [But] Warners gave it back to Adrian and said, You know what, shop it around. He took it to Imagine; he took it to Universal. They were excited. In 2010, after his gang was eliminated, he fled to Tallahassee, He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. A woman who saw it speeding past reported it to the police, who matched the report to a truck rented the day before in nearby Medford by a man already suspected of a string of robberies. WebThe Town. Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. Not noir, French for black. The Town stages heists in both places. Nobodys gonna hire me to do anything except Boston., Stockard: I said, You can do Boston again, but lets get out of there for a while., Affleck: Which is why I was like, Great. Chief Judge Frank Caprio#CaughtInProvidence#thetown#bankrobber See less Comments Most relevant Connie Ann My husband and I watched the movie right after I saw the Providence clip. Ben wasnt in Boston. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. The gang torches their escape cars and their transfer vehicles. Susan Matheson (costume designer): Ben at one point wears a zip-up track jacket that looks like a Bruins jacket. 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