Before the much-hyped script for "Prisoners" by Aaron Guzikowski started generating buzz on the Left Coast, it was set in Massachusetts and rumored to star Dorchester homeboy Mark Wahlberg.Not so fast.
The soon-to-be-filmed thriller directed by Antoine Fuqua is getting a geographic makeover. According to reports here, filmmakers are shooting the flick in Derby, Conn. and Shelton beginning February 2010 ... and not in the Boston area as originally penned in the script.
John Starke, the movie's executive director, sent a letter to Derby officials promising not to make the Connecticut town look bad.
"I'm writing this letter not only to thank you for your and Mayor Lauretti’s help so far, but also to assure you that in no way is your town, local police or residents of the town depicted in any negative way in the script," Starke writes.
"Prisoners" centers around a Boston father (now Derby, Conn. dad?) whose 6-year-old daughter and her best friend are kidnapped. The film’s protagonist, a role once eyed by native Mark Wahlberg, takes matters into his own hands by kidnapping the man he suspects is responsible.
Endeavor, who represents Wahlberg, snapped up the script earlier this year. Insiders say the tone of the revenge-fantasy flick is in the same vein as the made-in-Boston thriller "Mystic River" by director Clint Eastwood.
Wahlberg, who explores a similar plot in "The Lovely Bones" by Peter Jackson, filmed a bio-pic in Lowell this past summer chronicling the early days of Boston boxer “Irish” Micky Ward called “The Fighter.”
According to reports here, local officials in Derby have been told that Hugh Jackman is now attached to the "Prisoners" movie.
Click here for the back story on "Prisoners."
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