MacRay, who is a recovering addict with mommy issues, is more of a sociopath than Jem, who is only living the way the streets taught him. I was fine with that. It all felt sort of very impossible and glamorous. In the history of crime, the best crew was headed by John Dillinger. She prepped for that for God knows how long. And well, why not nuns and tactical gear? Slaine: Im convinced my hearing is still not the same after that film. Crockett: Gone Baby Gone, which I did with him, was a relatively small movie. Hamm: It was an ambitious shoot and it was pulled off without a hitch. Hogan: I was just checking out the internet one day in my office and I saw a Variety headline: Affleck moves to The Town. I called my wife over and said, I think theyre making a movie of the book. And that was it. Neighborhood of Boston, yet lopped off every map of the city like a bastard cropped out of a happy family portrait. In the 70s, New York was that. They look at him. And then we put her and her cousin in the movie. He loves her enough not to kill her, but not enough to testify. Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and cobblestone. Hes probably still there. Douggie, played by Affleck, is a man trying not to die on the street he was born. Hed done his time. Ben wasnt in Boston. This is their story. Crockett: I vividly remember it. [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. He was kind of hemming and hawing a little bit and I said, Look, unless they make you wear the fucking purple outfit and the mask, you gotta do this. He went, I know.. Ben Affleck grew up in Cambridge, only a few miles away from Charlestown, but to him the distance between the two places felt vast. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Burch: When theyre down in Gate D, where the shoot-out scene was before they exited the ballpark, that was probably the most challenging part of it. How are you gonna figure this out because you want to drive an armored car out of one of our gates? And I remember immediately getting on Google Maps and looking at the North End, because they had described a robbery that had taken place [there], and being like, They robbed this thing here, and they had to get to that bridge there. So we basically mapped out where this little route was. Its not a super cheap movie but its not expensive like a studio movie. Hes crazy. Hes from Modesto, and hes kind of got that bulldog, kind of dirtbag sensibility. Id go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there. Craig: Adrian was at this really ambitious double-album phase of his career, and he didnt want to cut anything. 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. Hamm: It was impressive. 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. The length of them runs, I would think, like 150 feet. He said, Theyre looking for guys like you. And so I went over and I read a few lines, they took my picture. Cooper: I think he was just having a ball with this character. The Den of Geek quarterly magazine is packed with exclusive features, interviews, previews and deep dives into geek culture. They had seen Gone Baby Gone, which opened in like sixth place to $5 million or something and wasnt seen widely. In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. Numerous career bank robbers threw in the towel and testified in this trial, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Connolly said at a news conference at the time. He was doing a long sentence. Oct 31, 2012. I look over and its Pete, and hes having his breakfast, and hes reading the paper, and I hadnt met him before because I didnt have any scenes with him. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. 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. And I was like, Who the hell is this guy? Then they look up to find a Boston cop reading a newspaper in his police car. 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. He said, Shes slightly different. Marblehead is a little chi-chi. 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. Affleck said he picked up the term from a guy at New Sullys bar:I asked, Whats the thing with the Tunies? And he said the Tunies moved in and the Townies stole all their car stereos. He contributed to Altvariety, Chiseler, Smashpipe, and other magazines. Ten years ago this week, Ben Affleck and his crew put on nun masks, robbed Fenway Park, and made the ultimate Boston movie. In March 1995, two men held the guard of an armoured car at gunpoint as he tried to delivercash to a branch of the Bank of Boston on Massachusetts Avenue. 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 Stockard: There is this over-the-top sense to these movies. The only time I attempt it is when Im basically making fun of Ben, his character, about the Stah Mahket. The way we did that was to make the days inexpensive. 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. He loved it, optioned it. Her performance was savaged by some critics it features the Bride Wars of Boston accents, Wesley Morris wrote in the New York Times but history has been kinder to her. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. CONCORD, N.H. (AP) _ Three men who were convicted in a deadly string of bank and armored car robberies after prosecutors finally broke the ``code of silence in Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. When it came time to cast The Town, Affleck had fun putting together a star-powered ensemble on a relatively limited budget. Thousands. Its not The Godfather of caper films, but it is a heist movie must-see. Burke: To go sit in the stands with Jeremy Renner in an empty stadium, it was surreal. So theres a whole range of accents. So I read this new version of the script. Welliver: I had an experience several years before for a David Kelley show called The Practice which took place in Boston. Iran. Even the prison is real: the scene in which Douggie visits his father was shot on location at the maximum security MCI-Cedar Junction, the first time anything had been filmed there. Slaine: I was hanging with Gronkowski, and hes like, Dude. Hes like, The Town, is there going to be a sequel? He was like, You gotta do it, you gotta be in the sequel. I said, Dude, I died at the end.. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. Forget it. Some of the scenes were shot on the real crime locations depicted. Published in 2004 and set in the 90s, it follows a team of stick-up men led by Doug MacRay, a washed-up NHL draft pick and recovering addict whose traumatic childhood has led him to follow his incarcerated father into the family business. 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. Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. Job Type:Part-Time. I remember the librarians called me the day before, just to confirm. 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. I kind of got to tiptoe around and watch them shooting from afar without them knowing I was there. This is the script I want. And I said, Adrian, this is gonna be a three-and-a-half-hour movie. Hes like, Well, if Scorsese can make a three-and-a-half-hour movie, I want to.. 2023 date, start time and how to watch, From the stripper to the slap: the worst moments in Oscars history, Pedro Pascal is the best actor on TV even behind a mask. Hes been forever. The second thing was, I realized what a fool I was to think like, Oh, if its bad Ill have a story. I realized that I wouldve been crushed if that movie was bad. Affleck: I made sure that we had enough money to do the Fenway heist sequence in total, which was a lot. The Town (2010 Jon Hamm and Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. Afflecks big killing in The Town is Fenway Park, and over 60 years later, the take is the same. Ive been on the force for 20 years and Im not looking for money or anything, but Im originally from Charlestown and I think I could be helpful. Shes like, Well, its really great to talk to you, we do have technical advisers and everything kind of lined up, but if you wanted to drop off a card or something like that. I said, Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. The robbers Free shipping for many products! 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. So many broke the code, shattered the code. [The Town] is not just entertainment and popcorn. He gets punished. I just still really thought that way. If the world was empty, what would you do? I had never even been in a drama class or nothing like that. Although we dont have the exact figures for Charlestowns crime rate in the 90s, statistics suggest that there was indeed a surge in the rate of robberies in That whole character she did was really kind of based on her own preparation. Her words had already come true. I wrote the book, then I went away for a while, then I worked on the script for a year, then I went away for a while, then other people wrote the script. Affleck turns it into a redemption story which beats the bank alarm at under two hours. First of all, it was about 20 pages shorter. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. NEW YORK -- The mystery began when a Boston ex-con dropped dead on a New York train platform with a backpack stuffed with $180,000. The FBI reports agents today arrested Anthony M. Hamilton, 24, of Charlestown, on charges he held up a Malden Citizens Bank branch in December, then shot his way out of a locked vestibule. After a seven-day trial, they were In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. WebDouglas "Doug" MacRay is a former career criminal and professional bank robber from Charlestown, Boston, which was the bank robbery capital of the world. 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. Welliver: The upside of that is everybody is rooting for him. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. 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. The robbers were waiting. Well, not take notes, because you couldnt bring in a pencil. Also, Starr starred in a silent movie based on his criminal activity titled A Debtor to the Law. Theres so many shots and so quickly, that at the end, OK, what happened? All three were 25 or under. Welliver: I still think that The Town and Gone Baby Gone, thats the bar. Claire foretells the doom of Charlestowns criminal culture. However, everybody will want to go see it. They stole their tunes., The interviews also gave The Town an on-tap supply of authentic extras. And this was toward the end of the shoot. Slaine (Albert Gloansy Magloan): I was born in Dorchester, grew up there as a kid. David Crockett (producer): They read, and not saying who she was or what she was in, she did the [Boston] accent. The guests ran for cover. In addition to including the statistic about Charlestowns armed-robbery predilection, the preface of Prince of Thieves features a quote in The Globe by an anonymous Townie. And everyone was like, Ah, you cant, really. Affleck was determined to make sure that his main cast could at least pass as true Massholes. They ran mass auditions of up to 1,000 people at a time, Affleck recalls. Im mighty proud of where I come from, he says. Stockard: I think the rule that Ben and I always kind of operated with, was like, Look, there are people like me and you who are very much from Boston who dont talk like that. Its not some weird thing that someone from Boston doesnt have a Boston accent. Colin Burch (vice president of marketing and broadcasting, Boston Red Sox): We had filmed a number of movies before at Fenway, starting with Fever Pitch, and we did Ted, and RIPD, and Moneyball. And Ill tell you why: Nobody was rooting for Jon Hamm and the cops. And that looks like a detail youd come up with writing a script. He had really bad scars. He was in his early 20s. We had bank robbers, we had career criminals, people that couldnt show up certain days because theyd be violating their parole. 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 Hamm: Another smart move by Ben was to populate this movie with people that have an actual, real-life connection to these things. And we saw the film for the first time and I must say: I was across the aisle and up two or three rows from Jeremy, and I dont know if Im letting the cat out of the bag, but I think he was thrilled watching that film. On Feb. 7, 2019, Brady pleaded guilty to bank robbery. In all of his years of being a criminal, he robbed two banks and seven armored cars, plus robbing Fenway Park during a baseball game. It was wild. Staging a chase scene in the North End was difficult, but shooting a robbery inside and around Fenway Park was unprecedented. The gang torches their escape cars and their transfer vehicles. Or a child abduction? (His co-star John Hamm once said thatwalking around Boston with Affleck was like walking around with the mayor.) Most of the heists in The Town were inspired by real crimes from that era. Craig: I hadnt really processed the new ending. Then put it in Connecticut.. Ill tell you what Im gonna do. And so we were a little bit extra, extra respectful. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. Provo, UT, United States () -Provo Towne Center 1200 Towne Centre Blvd Ste B. It really wasnt gonna work. Solemn now: To The Town. Rob Dobi Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: Raise a Glass. And I still am. Its just great that hes from here and hes back. And this woman looked at me and shes like, Hes not from heah! OK, hes from, like, three miles away. And Ben Affleck was incredibly famous already. Hes like, What the fuck are you doing? Rebecca Halls character asking Douggie why the kids with whom she volunteerscall her a tunie? [Lively did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article. With the premiere of The Town 10 years ago, the No R genre peaked. Whats better than that? It was as simple as that. This isnt because those criminals made the sloppiest getaways. They had all these Blaupunkts. I sort of pretended that Charlestown was still the way it used to be. The car contained stolen money an Tuesday October 30, 2012. The actor who played James Jem Coughlin, Dougs ex-con buddy, however, wasnt from Boston. I was up there for what Im sure was a good half hour. They dont fink. He made my job easy. Affleck unequivocally contributed to that proliferation. Extremely plausible. 371K. 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). You dont know where they come from. He was the leader that he is. Some residents felt it portrayed the locals as in the words of onequoted in The Christian Science Monitor, a bunch of dumb bums. They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. And a lot of older actors, [when theyre] told, Go here, do this, a lot of these guys are like, Fuck off. The first bank robbery in Melrose was shot on location. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. And I got a call saying that [Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal director] Adrian Lyne had read it and really wanted to do something with it. They get their tips and kick up to local crime lord Fergus Fergie Colm, played by veteran character actor Pete Postlethwaite. What is the penalty for bank robbery in mass? Hamm: We could all go, hang out at the bar; me and Rebecca, and Renner, and Titus, that whole crowd. Its worth bearing in mind that these are state-wide statistics, which do not differentiate betweenneighborhoods. Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. A long moment passes with intensity. There have been dozens of films and television shows filmed in the Bay State over the last decade, but by the time the 2010s came to a close, the popularity of the No R genre had faded. I think its ripe for the picking. Stockard: Its a little weird being a piece of that, as somebody who wrote two of those movies. The budget that we had previously was too high for us to make it. And then I realized, Maybe they think I can make movies more on the cheap.. This was a garage that There was a script written. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. Stockard: Obviously youre making a movie so you mythologize it a little bit. 'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'? Blake came in and read the scene and was amazing. Just let me go in. She opened the door and I just walked in and Ben was there and he just burst out laughing. It was kind of a moment for them. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. In 2010, after his gang was eliminated, he fled to Tallahassee, Police Arrest Charlestown Man Following Bank Robbery - Charlestown, MA - Officers responded to the Santander Bank at 437 Rutherford Avenue early Sunday morning. If possible, its really great to hire people with whom an audience isnt overly familiar, because audiences have developed expectations and kind of anticipate what an actor might do if theyve seen them a bunch. But it couldnt be Bruins. Hall: Hes just a very good storyteller. It all went to the actual production of the movie. 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. The way John tells the story is, Of course I do two [moves] on him and Ive got him and he cant move, and [Afflecks] like, alright, alright, alright!. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. When I was a kid, I was scared to go there. Two guards -- Lawrence Johnson, 57, and Ronald Normandeau, 52 -- were shot to death while delivering money to the bank for North East Armored Transport Inc. of Manchester, N.H. Theres two ways that this can go. If the Herald said that, I mightve taken it more personally. A decade after establishing his Boston bona fides by cowriting and appearing in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, he was offered a chance to adapt Prince of Thieves for the screen. When fans of The Town think of Charlestown, they think of banks and bars and punchlines. But not everyone was happy with the image of Charlestown given toa generation of moviegoers. Director: Ben Affleck. In adapting the script, itself adapted from Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves, Affleck and Aaron Stockard (with whomhe also worked on Good Will Hunting and Gone Baby Gone) changed the cinema setting of the second heist to an armoured-car robbery and car chase based on a real incident that took place in Harvard Square. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. Affleck also embarked on a series of interviews with locals, including convicted robbers and members of the FBI violent crimes force. They set up a date and Jeremy Renner and I both arrived at Walpole to go through the screening. Affleck: The Bruins have been extremely shortsighted and wrong with their policy, where if theres swearing or violence, you cant use their logo. 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. He also ran afoul of the law himself, recruiting real ex-cons as extras and giving them guns. According to FBI statistics from the same year, the entire state of Massachusetts had fewer than 3 per cent of all bank robberies nationwide. I wasnt really in the movie world. I was cutting out pieces of felt while Gina [Rhodes] was stitching themmaking, by hand, the fake Bruins logo. The Town took $23.8 million (18.4 million) at the box office on its opening weekend, from a budget of just $37 million (28 million). He was able to hold his own with a lot of those dudes who are the real deal. Heres how it works in fucking Charlestown: Youre born in Charlestown, you play fucking hockey and you rob. And I went, OK, that sums it up.. Affleck: Rebecca worked just as hard on the accent. Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. That was sort of the trick. He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. Affleck: There have been a lot more New York city movies than there have Boston, for sure. Maybe its not balls; maybe cocky is the right word to describe him. By contrast, Afflecks Doug MacRay heads a four-man gang. Hes maybe four people away. When Doug wakes Jem up in the middle of the night to do some damage and ask no questions, the only thing his friend wants to know is which car they should take. WebWhitey Bulger and his friendss and some of the Charlestown robbers operated from Marshall Street Garage was actually in Winter Hill, Somerville. 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. 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. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. At one point we even had Brad Pitt ready to do it so it was really close. 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. Robert Brady, 40, was arrested in Charlestown shortly after he allegedly robbed the branch at 11:21 a.m. And to that end, its 100 percent on Ben. Three friends and acquaintances who had lied on the stand before testified against the five, along with four convicted bank robbers from Charlestown. Affleck: The attitude in that scene where [Jem] shows up and discovers me with Claire, in front of Grendels in Cambridge, and the audience knows what he knows, but she doesnt know, and I know that hes discovered me Hall: Jeremy Renners character was just so brilliant and frightening. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. Pretty much everyone on the set was an ex-con of some sort,Jeremy Renner told the LA Times. I wanted to be a part of that. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. Affleck didnt just direct, he played the lead alongside a cast of present and future superstars and locals. According to the Associated Press, Shea, along with Patrick McGonagle, Michael OHalloran, Stephen Burke, and Matthew McDonald, were all from the same Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. 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. Youve got nothing to do, its like, Lets go try out an awesome restaurant. I felt bad that Ben didnt get to have that experience. Its a fun heist movie. [Owner] John Henry visited the set. [But] Warners gave it back to Adrian and said, You know what, shop it around. 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