Ville en pleine renaissance, Detroit sait également se servir des cicatrices qui l'ont marquée pour les transformer en atout et les valoriser économiquement.
C'est ainsi
que Detroit est le théâtre de films qui poétisent un décor unique, une
atmosphère urbaine atypique encore ressentie dans certains quartiers.
Parmi, les
films les plus connus qui ont projeté Detroit sur grand écran, on peut citer :
Robocop, Blue Collar, 8 Mile, Gran Torino ou bien encore The Lost River.
C'est au
tour de Transformers qui, trois ans après le dernier épisode, revient à Detroit
pour ce nouvel opus ci cinématographique aux 4 milliards de dollars de
bénéfices enregistrés.
Pour
l'occasion, Downtown est transformé en plateau de tournage dont le journal Detroit
Free Press se fait l'écho avec cet article.
Julie
Hinds in Detroit Free Press - June 24, 2016
The
signs of summer are all around downtown Detroit. People sitting in the
sunshine. Music playing from open car windows. A "Transformers" movie
filming here again.
Crew
members and trucks for the "Transformers: The Last Knight" production
were spotted Friday at the corner of Fort and Shelby in downtown Detroit.
It's
one of several spots — the Capitol Park area and the old Packard plant included
— filming has been spotted this week by passersby and a few dedicated followers
of local filming who've posted photos on Twitter.
This
is the fourth time the Motor City has been used as a location for a
"Transformers" movie.
"We're
happy to be back. We love being in Detroit and Michigan," said producer
Ian Bryce on Friday afternoon during a break, noting that longtime
"Transformers" director Michael Bay always enjoys working in
Michigan.
The
cast and crew are spending a total of eight weeks in the region, with filming planned
for Detroit, the Michigan Motion Picture Studios sound stages in Pontiac and
other nearby undisclosed locations.
This
first week, the Chene-Ferry market was used as a location for three days.
The
production will be bringing returning franchise stars Mark Wahlberg and Josh
Duhamel to town and new cast additions like Laura Haddock and Isabela Moner.
Bryce
hints that there might be a surprise guest, too, without offering any details.
And when producers mention surprises, they're usually pretty good.
There
have been many positive changes downtown since the last
"Transformers" visit in 2013, when a huge outdoor set near Grand
Circus Park doubled for Hong Kong.
"We
see there's a resurgence of the economy," said Bryce. "It's
definitely physically busier than the last time we were here, and we're glad to
see that."
(...)
Earlier
this week, casting coordinator Maryellen Aviano appeared on Fox 2 Detroit,
which ran the e-mail address during an interview about "Transformers"
returning to the city. The account was filled by 8,500 submissions within 48
hours, according to Aviano.
(...)
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