Jem is his right hand muscle, and unquestioning backup. Witt: Its not like New York or Los Angeles where you have wider streets. Affleck: Jeremy came in and was just awesome. In 2010, estate agents were pitching waterfront redevelopments to young professionals and families. Affleck: When this movie came out, the Boston Phoenix review said it had horrible Boston accents. Affleck was born in Berkeley, California but grew up in Cambridge, also across the Charles River from Boston but far removed from the inner-city neighborhood of the film. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. And they told us all these stories, and all these fascinating things, and built up what this mythology was. Stockard: Obviously youre making a movie so you mythologize it a little bit. [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. It at least had that upswing. Ill use them because Im from Boston to get into Fenway. Especially when youre in a park thats not open to the public. Crockett: He knew from the beginning that [Magloan] was gonna be Slaine. It is because the small community adheres to omerta, silence unto death. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. But the sketchy details and the cast of characters sound like a story line from The Friends of Eddie Coyle, a classic movie about low-level wiseguys in the Boston underworld, or the sequel to The Town, the Ben Affleck movie based on a group of Charlestown bank robbers. But the Red Sox were definitely in the spirit of, This is gonna be fun. He was a local hockey star who got drafted by the NHL, but started beating on his own teammates and got sent back home. Solemn now: To The Town. 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. With the premiere of The Town 10 years ago, the No R genre peaked. Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. 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. Chucks such a good writer that you get the tone from his details. Suspects at large after $100K stolen from North Side bank: authorities. And then she recorded her voice, read some of the pages, so that we shared that with Blake Lively, so she could try to get the accent down. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. You didnt really know what was coming. 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. 1 hospitalized after fire in West Town, CFD says . Affleck: The day that were shooting the shoot-out with Jeremy, where he gets killed out in front of the McDonalds behind Fenwaywhen you do these stunts with cars, you have to really clean the streets immaculately because these drivers are precision drivers. He goes, Yeah, you know, Ill tell you, Ty. I was up there for what Im sure was a good half hour. When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. Find out more, The latest offers and discount codes from popular brands on Telegraph Voucher Codes, That's how you drive a f----n caaar: the second bank robbery was based on the 1995 Harvard Square heist, The moment when a cop sees a carload of nun-masked robbers and turns away was based on real life, Affleck sent Blake Lively to hang out in Charlestown bars to prepare for her role, Ben Affleck directs Jon Hamm on the set of The Town, Close, review: a soul-scorching portrait of boyhood friendship and loss, Whats on TV tonight: Stephen Fry: Willem & Frieda Defying the Nazis, Anorexic and more, When are the Oscars? Chuck gets credit for that. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. Just because the echo in the ballpark. He robbed banks but let the civilians in the banks keep their money. Thats what makes it great. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. Two armored car guards were shot to death in New Hampshire in 1994 during one of the robberies. Its not just an accent, its more of an attitude. He was not doing great [health-wise]. Affleck: There did kind of get to be a glut of Boston movies, and everybody did a Boston accent. They stole their tunes., The interviews also gave The Town an on-tap supply of authentic extras. Affleck turns it into a redemption story which beats the bank alarm at under two hours. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. WebWhitey Bulger and his friendss and some of the Charlestown robbers operated from Marshall Street Garage was actually in Winter Hill, Somerville. Affleck: With Jeremy Renner, somebody said to me, Theres this guy, hes got this movie coming out that you should see, its supposed to be really good. And then we put her and her cousin in the movie. And was critically acclaimed. Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. The Town is based on Chuck Hogan's 2004 novel Prince of Thieves (set, unlike the movie, in '96, when Charlestown-affiliated heists were actually at their height). the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year No above-the-line people got paid any money. In so many ways, the project came along at the exact right time. Every take had the same amount of tension and edge but it was just all over the place. I call them No R movies, Hogan says. Carter: That scene at the end, where you see [Jem] running across the street trying to get away from the cops, and the cars, obviously those are stunt drivers, theyre stopping really quick. The Friends of Eddie Coyle starred Robert Mitchum in the title role and Peter Boyle as a hitman who ran a bar. To get to Charlestown was to live free. I said, Really, Ive got to drive all the way to fucking Boston to get a meeting with you? He looked at me and went, Youre crazy. I said, No, Im not. He said, So, you really want to be in this film? I went, Yeah. And then he went, Dino? I went, Yeah. He went, OK. Affleck: Im glad to have worked on movies that are part of that tradition. When its done great its Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Hamm: Theres nothing weirder than an empty stadium. The Town (2010 Jon Hamm and Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. At one point we even had Brad Pitt ready to do it so it was really close. Location scouting was uppermost in his mind. Affleck: I was very self-conscious about being limited to being the Boston guy. And we got in the car and kept going. I totally put that directly in the movie. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. Ben wasnt in Boston. Everybody wanted to cut it. 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. And he said, Well, there was a time I remember when we all had just robbed a truck and we pulled up to the switch car, and we all had our masks, and we were carrying a bag of money, and we pull up to the car, and we look over, and theres a cop doing lazy construction. And he just looked at us, and we looked at him, and he looked the other way. Salon Professionals. And I say, Whats that? And they say, Thats a still of someone robbing a bank. And I said, Did they rob the bank in that skeleton mask with the dreadlocks? They said, Yeah. So I became obsessed with that mask. Slaine (Albert Gloansy Magloan): I was born in Dorchester, grew up there as a kid. He looks at them. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies(not just bank robberies). Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. Who was in which car?, Burke: I remember we were all standing around and they were like, Oh yeah, were gonna blow this thing. There was a van parked there and they fucking blew it up. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. Burke: There were the most narrow streets you could find in the North End. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. Hamm: I met with Ben and he was like, You know, I think were gonna have plenty of Boston accents in this. I was like, You know what, youre absolutely right. Once I started meeting all the Federal agents in the [FBI] office, very few of them are actually from Boston. We all want to drive a f----n caaar like Gloansy. But they liked it and they wanted to meet with me, and I was like, of course. I was willing to meet with anyone who was interested in hiring me as a director. It was like a different world, the actor and filmmaker says. That whole character she did was really kind of based on her own preparation. Needless to say, it really shook me up. The violent film starring Jeremy Renner, John Hamm and Ben Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Even with the shorter length hes afforded, Affleck tells multiple stories. The first bank robbery in Melrose was shot on location. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. Its been in development here for a while. Carter: Ben actually went and sat down with the guy that his character was based on, and was able to see him and take notes in person. I went in to audition. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies (not just bank robberies). Its kind of like a safety thing. Welliver: So, when [Jem] gets killed at Fenway, when the cops dump him and [theres] that brilliant thing of him reaching down and taking a sip of the soda behind the mailbox, it was a little bit of, Top of the world, ma! Its heartbreaking. Hes been forever. Extremely plausible. The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. Forget it. Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. Its Renners Oscar moment. It has a broad appeal. We had bank robbers, we had career criminals, people that couldnt show up certain days because theyd be violating their parole. It was wild. Affleck: I had great stunt drivers. During the Cold War he had a great joke: The Russians wont invade Boston, theres nowhere to pahk! I thought, Yup, theres a lot of truth to that. That was our greatest hurdle. 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. Id go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there. When it came time to cast The Town, Affleck had fun putting together a star-powered ensemble on a relatively limited budget. Blake came in and read the scene and was amazing. Do everything youre supposed to do, they wont be harmed.. But he could not have been happier to be there. Its fucking brilliant. But instead, Affleck went with something more bittersweet. And I just came over to him and I was biting my tongue. And I said, Is there anything just weird or strange or unexpected or bizarre in the course of this? And I mean, the guy had lived a pretty bizarre life. Affleck: He played that so deftly, and made that scene work so well, when hes sort of smiling and laughing, but theres so much menace underneath it. When fans of The Town think of Charlestown, they think of banks and bars and punchlines. Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. So theres a whole range of accents. They were about to buy it but they wanted to cut it, too. She prepped for that for God knows how long. BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for bank robbery. Shea, 35, Stephen Burke, 42, and Michael OHalloran, 40, were convicted of racketeering, conspiracy, robbery and other offenses Dec. 22 for a series of holdups in New England and Florida. The blue-collar neighborhood produced more bank robbers and armored car thieves than anywhere else in the world, according to the movies prologue. The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. And Ill tell you why: Nobody was rooting for Jon Hamm and the cops. Affleck: Blake Lively took the train from New York. So I was thrilled. I love Adrian. Both robbers were shot, one in the back and one in the head, and the getaway driver promptly rear-ended a parked car. Shooting there had been a condition of Afflecktaking on the film. Chuck Hogan (author, Prince of Thieves): When the book came out, I was scheduled to do a reading at the Charlestown Public Library. 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. Affleck: Typically people you saw who did it badly would err on the side of doing the Kennedys. He flew in. Hall: It was like being alongside Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in London. 2 hours ago. He often has a very small crew. Besides being the lovable and erudite wrinkle in the scheme, she is not a townie, someone who was raised in the neighborhood. Or why Affleck hired him to play a Charlestown bank robber in his new movie The Town.. 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