Mark Wahlberg first thought making a movie about the Boston Marathon bombings “wasn’t a good idea” but the script changed his mind.
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BOSTON (AP) Hollywood film crews are in Boston shooting scenes for upcoming movies about the 2013 Boston Marathon attack as the real-life marathon is underway.
Mark Wahlberg was scene filming scenes for “Patriots Day” at the Boston Marathon Finish Line on Monday morning.
“Unfortunately, it’s a insane world”, Boston Police Department Commissioner Bill Evans told reporters Monday evening.
Jake Gyllenhaal, meanwhile, was at Fenway Park on Monday morning shooting scenes for “Stronger”, a film slated for release sometime in 2017 and based on bombing survivor Jeff Bauman’s memoir of the same name. He is now married to Hurley and, in a touching moment, Gyllenhaal carried the couple’s 20-month-old daughter, Nora, out to the mound before the ceremonial pre-game toss.
Wahlberg also recently filmed scenes with a SWAT team elsewhere in the Boston area, recreating the search for the bombing suspects, and later took time to sign autographs for onlookers.
Wahlberg’s production has been rebuffed at a few key locations, though, as some victims’ families and survivors have voiced concerns the movies are being made too soon after the attacks.
Movie producers were previously denied a request for permission to film at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended.
A manhunt to find the two men ended with a shootout that killed Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
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The younger Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 federal charges and sentenced to death for his role in the attack.
