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. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies(not just bank robberies). Something the character of James (Jeremy Renner), aka Jem, could appreciate. The Town may have taken a small place with a complicated history and declared it a cesspool of violent criminals but they arent dumb ones. They really loved the idea of putting these masked avengers in minivans. Just let me go in. She opened the door and I just walked in and Ben was there and he just burst out laughing. Gone Girl we shot a hundred days for a two-hour thriller. Ill use them because Im from Boston to get into Fenway. Slaine: Im convinced my hearing is still not the same after that film. The actor who played James Jem Coughlin, Dougs ex-con buddy, however, wasnt from Boston. Provo, UT, United States () -Provo Towne Center 1200 Towne Centre Blvd Ste B. Carter: Hes 6-foot-3. After all, there are only so many Massachusetts-set crime stories about Irish American antiheroes that you can tell. Affleck: Typically people you saw who did it badly would err on the side of doing the Kennedys. This database contains birth information from several towns included in the Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Town Vital He goes into the family business. Most of the heists in The Town were inspired by real crimes from that era. It later served as inspiration for the Massachusetts natives third book. The productions biggest scoop, location-wise, was being granted permission to shoot the Fenway Park heist scene in the real Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Affleck didnt just direct, he played the lead alongside a cast of present and future superstars and locals. [It was] probably the most intense production that weve had at the ballparkfrom both an overall action perspective, but also the grandeur of it. Slaine: Owen and I didnt have to listen to anybody. Referring to a location as a vital character in a movie is a clich, but in the case of The Town, its impossible not to. Chuck Hogan (author, Prince of Thieves): When the book came out, I was scheduled to do a reading at the Charlestown Public Library. How are you gonna figure this out because you want to drive an armored car out of one of our gates? The FBI says the vestibule was actually a "man-trap," designed to capture people like Hamilton. So thats cool. He was given just 13 days, during which the sound of automatic gun fire spooked a wedding party that had hired Fenway as a venue and were apparently not made aware that there was also a film shoot in progress. It would go from completely quiet at 5 oclock in the morning to suddenly its like doing theater on a massive scale. Slaine: I worked at Fenway Park when I was a kid, so to go in there and be shooting machine guns was pretty cool, pretty surreal. 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. The Den of Geek quarterly magazine is packed with exclusive features, interviews, previews and deep dives into geek culture. I dont think you know how you sound. Actors tell me that thats one of the toughest ones they have to do. The violent film starring Jeremy Renner, John Hamm and Ben Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. By the time Affleck directed and starred in the film, Bostons oldest neighbourhood, a small squarish outcrop situated north of the Charles river, was no longer the crime capital of America. Pulling off the heistDoug and his team steal the $3.5 million in cash amassed during a four-game series against the Yankeeswithout it devolving into a cartoonish homage to the iconic setting took precise coordination. the movie the TOWN WAS Mde after SQUARE OFF T.V 249 subscribers Subscribe 6 Share 1.2K views 1 year Police Arrest Charlestown Man Following Bank Robbery - Charlestown, MA - Officers responded to the Santander Bank at 437 Rutherford Avenue early Sunday morning. Witt: You dont want to go, like, Quantum of Solace at the beginning where you really dont even know where you are, where you shot it. And so, constantly, Ben and I are trying to make it as real as possible. This is based on FBI statistics at the time. Hall: Hes just a very good storyteller. Its been in development here for a while. Itd be good to have him around for authenticity. Hes in the movie. Hogan: I think weve played out the Irish Boston gangster thing. It went on to make $154 million (119 million) worldwide. I call them No R movies, Hogan says. 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. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. What if something happens to you? But hes so agile, and hes so athletic, and he has no fear, just absolutely no fear. 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. And they led me into this little alleyway. Affleck: I made sure that we had enough money to do the Fenway heist sequence in total, which was a lot. He was with his mother. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. Hamm: We could all go, hang out at the bar; me and Rebecca, and Renner, and Titus, that whole crowd. Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. Stockard: Do we want to punish this person or do we not? "Ben Affleck Played Me". Hamm: Another smart move by Ben was to populate this movie with people that have an actual, real-life connection to these things. When its not, its predictable and obvious and trite. Theyre stopping at an exactly certain point and if they go too far, peoples lives are at stakeits a very serious thing. Theres two ways that this can go. Hogan: I went in to go see it in a screening room in Manhattan like two months before it came out. Five men accused of a series of bank and armored car robberies around New England were convicted yesterday on charges that will send them to prison for life without parole. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. Witt: Its not like New York or Los Angeles where you have wider streets. Welliver: If anything, people were kind of burned out on the New York gangster genre. Slaine: When he cast me in Gone Baby Gone I had no acting experienceand I wasnt the only one. But the machines they use to clean the streets are very loud and we were cleaning the streets at like 7 in the morning and out of this apartment building comes Jonathan Papelbon. 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. Stockard: Its a little weird being a piece of that, as somebody who wrote two of those movies. And so they said they had this script based on this book, and I said, OK, let me look at it. I read the adaptation, and it had been developed by Adrian Lyne, who I just worked with. The bank robbers step out of their vehicle. By the way? So all of a sudden, while theyre getting married, they hear gunshots at Fenway. But how many people, speaking frankly, want to see a movie about a child murderer? WebThe crew consisted of Doug MacRay, Jem Coughlin, Desmond Elden, and Albert MacGloan, four veteran Charlestown bank and armored car robbers. The guests ran for cover. After managing to evade a manhunt and escape to Florida, his character says goodbye to Claire via a letter. If you say its a bank heist movie, people are like, Ill see that. I think it was a great step. Its more general American but with a kind of East Coast, sort of slightly privileged vibe. 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. But the Associated Press, which broke the Coyman story, reported Burke is also from Charlestown and was sent to prison in 1988 for six bank robberies in Florida. When I saw it, I thought, Its fine. I wound up learning a lot from how Ben did that. I was playing a character that was from Boston and I worked really hard on the accent and went in and did my first rounds and the director said, That was great. They set up a date and Jeremy Renner and I both arrived at Walpole to go through the screening. If the criminal culture that The Town associated with Charlestowns Irish-Catholic working-class community ever existed, it had dwindled away with the neighbourhoods traditional residents. Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. He was in his early 20s. McCoy, 29, was reportedly a member of the Utah Air 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. And I just came over to him and I was biting my tongue. They are holding their automatic weapons and wearing their disguises. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Titus Welliver (Officer Dino Ciampa): I called the production office and I got [Carter] on the phone and I pretended I was a Boston detective. David Fincher does an even more exaggerated version of that. Some of the scenes were shot on the real crime locations depicted. So I leave the movie theater and Im really kind of numb, trying to figure it out. In one of his final roles, Academy Awardnominated English actor Pete Postlethwaite plays Fergus Fergie Colm, a menacing mob boss/florist who gives Doug orders while chomping gum and stripping roses. A man who was in the square at the time recalls thinking: Whoscrazy enough to pull off a bank robbery at noon in Harvard Square? Charlestown guys. And then he was out, so we were using him again for research. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. Shortly after 9am on August 25 1994, an armoured car pulled up outside a NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, New York. 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. Slaine: I think he was just really going for authenticity. And so I think at first we were sort of like, Oh, how can we not be Heat? And at some point we said, Look, embrace Heat. And he got really excited. But he pointed out the quote. I remember the librarians called me the day before, just to confirm. In the film, the crew get away, largely thanks to the kind of driving that puts Daniel Craig to shame. And then we put her and her cousin in the movie. 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. Besides being the lovable and erudite wrinkle in the scheme, she is not a townie, someone who was raised in the neighborhood. When its done great its Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. He had robbed a couple of banks in Boston years before. 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. I keep waiting for someone of color, anyone whos not like me, this sort of Irish American crime writer, to figure it out and write another great Boston crime movie that doesnt look like all the ones weve seen. Walking in I was feeling kind of glib. Jem is his right hand muscle, and unquestioning backup. 'The Town': Is Charlestown really America's 'bank robbery capital'? It kind of had a post-apocalyptic feeling to it. And we had a lot of days for a movie that was relatively inexpensive. Hogan: I had a friend who worked at Fenway Park, who snuck me in while they were shooting that whole sequence. But I certainly was familiar with his work. Welliver: [Renner] switches it on and I love watching him work. Location scouting was uppermost in his mind. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. His first reaction is to take her out of the equation.. Stockard: Ben had a good relationship with the Red Sox. They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. Oct 31, 2012. We did not have legal clearance to use the logo. It also had a scheme so ingenious that Frank Sinatra supposedly considered pulling the job over doing the film. CONCORD, N.H. -- A friend of two accused bank robbers testified yesterday as a prosection witness about a car found burning in Revere, the night of a 1994 robbery. Affleck: The hothead friend. Which was nice. I was still in the 70s mindset of, Oh thats how you end one of these movies. He knows how to get a story from one place to another and connect all the dots in between so that you are in it and immersed in it and believe it and its thrilling and its really entertaining, as well as being serious. 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.. Affleck: There tend to be trends and people feel like at first its fresh, and then its kind of something they like, and then it becomes something that people get tired of. Affleck: When this movie came out, the Boston Phoenix review said it had horrible Boston accents. The funny thing isand I found this out laterhe met John Cena for that role. It took him to the next level because it made him a filmmaker who also had box office appeal. But it isnt. Robert Brady, 40, was arrested in Charlestown shortly after he allegedly robbed the branch at 11:21 a.m. Blake came in and read the scene and was amazing. Those are the blueprints, thats the template. He is the TV Editor at Entertainment. To observe this life. 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. Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. 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. Her words had already come true. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. Burke: Ive heard people say, Oh, we dont sound like that! And Im like, I dont think you guys really listen to yourselves. Slaine: Ive seen other cuts of the ending, like the one they put out, the extended version. Its not wedding bells which break up the old gang in Ben Afflecks The Town, its witness protection. And someone had forgotten to tell them that we were downstairs shooting. Blake Lively was sent into bars, real hoodlums were cast and a wedding party was spooked by gunfire. I wasnt really in the movie world. And Im like, Whoa, so he must be the director.. Then they realized that were shooting a movie. 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. Affleck: Blake Lively took the train from New York. And on Afflecks instructions, Blake Lively, a California girl, spent three months hanging around with locals in bars and apartments to prepare for her role. He grew up in Cambridge,which was close enough to Charlestown for him to know a little about it. As I got older I lived in [Jamaica Plain], West Roxbury, where my son was born. We all want to drive a f----n caaar like Gloansy. The Telegraph values your comments but kindly requests all posts are on topic, constructive and respectful. It has ended with the government getting most of the money. The team, while sporting nun costumes and masks, quickly attempts to make an escape from downtown Boston to the bridge and beat the police department to the closing. 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.. 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. Theyre incarcerated. Hes part of John Hamms FBI crew. And I said, Yeah, its just so great that he can come back and do this and dig in. Iran. 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. Hall: I remember going to the premiere and a group of Charlestowners were there and they all said to me, You ever come back to Boston, well get you a car. That was sort of the trick. They happened to be casting this action movie across the street from where I live. Hall: I wouldnt really say I did a Boston accent. Cooper: He got me about five [recorded] voices and one in particularthis one of somebody who had done timewas just so full of character and I just loved it, and so thats what I glommed onto. Culture Editor Tony Sokol is a writer, playwright and musician. [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. Thats where I got my best stuff. Hes not someone that blends in easily. While they dont have a street name, FBI Special Agent Adam Frawley (Jon Hamm) calls them The-Not-Fucking-Around-Crew. They plan their jobs meticulously, bleaching crime scenes to eradicate DNA traces, and nuking the security tapes in the banks own microwave. [Adrian Lyne did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article.]. He has a certain thing in that town. The Town is loosely based on Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves. These words flash up on screen at the opening of Ben Afflecks 2010 crime thriller,which follows a crew of Boston robbers as they rise fromlocal bank jobs to a hit on Fenway Park. If they get popped, they do the time. See more. Stockard: As much as it felt like, We know this story, we know these people, there was also this entire world for us to discover. Rebecca Hall (Claire): I remember I had to fly to New York to meet Ben because I was based in London at the time, in the middle of this theater tour. Extremely plausible. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Afflecks big killing in The Town is Fenway Park, and over 60 years later, the take is the same. Affleck: What I liked about [the book] was that it was similar to [Dennis Lehanes] Gone, Baby, Gone in that I both could use the bones and the structure of the story and there was good dialogue and interesting characters in there, but also they kind of inspired me to create more and add on to it. WebThe Town. And they told us all these stories, and all these fascinating things, and built up what this mythology was. It all went to the actual production of the movie. The one thing I miss about Boston is you saw a fistfight every day. Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. It included a mastermind, a distraction, a partner, a coordinator, a backer, hacker, con man, and gadget guy. Whats better than that? Staging a chase scene in the North End was difficult, but shooting a robbery inside and around Fenway Park was unprecedented. Stockard: The movie that we thought about was [Michael Manns] Heat. You dont know where they come from. In 2018, there were just over 4,000 robberies in Massachusetts compare that to 1980, when there more than 13,500. Even with the shorter length hes afforded, Affleck tells multiple stories. If youre gonna make a film of it, you have to add something to it, or try to. A Providence man who claims he's robbed at least 100 banks and that Ben Affleck's character in "The Town" was based on him was held without bail Thursday on charges of robbing two Boston banks and attempting to rob a third, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said. He often has a very small crew. This is their story. 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 Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. The film makes Jem out to be the loose cannon in the arsenal, but he makes criminal sense. 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 In real life, they were not so lucky. Chucks such a good writer that you get the tone from his details. Some were ex-convicts for whom a judges permission had to be sought for them to carry weapons, even fake or unloaded ones. Theyre locked, loaded, and trained in automatic weapons, and launder their take immediately. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. 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. Peter Craig (cowriter): Theres a really great detail that I always loved where Doug just sticks his gun in one of those portholes in the armored car, and so the bullets like ricochet and rattle around in there. Hed done his time. With the premiere of The Town 10 years ago, the No R genre peaked. Honestly, people just wouldnt have liked the movie [with my ending]. They think theres no more serious white people in Charlestown, says local girl Kris (Blake Lively) early in the film. She is the interloping gentry and renovates Dougs headspace. 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. The robbers As for Affleck, the success of The Town helped advance his career as a director. Burke: I was at a point where I was still looking for what I was gonna do with my life. This was a garage that Everybody wanted to cut it. I knew that many of these bank robbers had gone to Catholic schools as children and been taught by nuns. And there were probably a couple of guys there who were still robbing banks.. They had all these Blaupunkts. He was like, Thats me. WebThe acquaintance, Richard Floyd McCoy, Jr., was a Vietnam veteran, a helicopter pilot, and an avid and capable skydiver. Hall: Youd be shooting this tiny little intimate scene, Ben and I, and Id look to my left and there were but thousands of people watching the set. And they walked me over to this locked door and once you opened it, there was an old, dusty cobwebby circular staircase. I knew it was one scene and it was gonna be an important scene: [Dougs] relationship with his father. September 2009. Just finding a place to park the trucks. I was at that point in my career where every place I walked into I was trying to figure out how to write a robbery in that space. Chief Judge Frank Caprio#CaughtInProvidence#thetown#bankrobber See less Comments Most relevant Connie Ann My husband and I watched the movie right after I saw the Providence clip. 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. Neighborhood of Boston, yet lopped off every map of the city like a bastard cropped out of a happy family portrait. We all want to be from Douggies Charlestown and we all know its a fantasy. There was one of my endings and Ben wrote a couple endings, and thats Bens ending that they used. He wanted to tour the prison and see it. And the guy said, Oh, the guy who wrote the book that that movies based on is on my softball team. And she said, Dennis Lehane is on your softball team? And thats when I was like, Its a small circle here.. 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. Please review our, You need to be a subscriber to join the conversation. Around 3 p.m., two armed men robbed the Hingham Institution for Savings on Charles Street, according to police spokeswoman Rachel McGuire. I was like, Im not gonna do another movie in Boston. Burke: There were the most narrow streets you could find in the North End. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. 371K. 2 hours ago. R Thriller Drama Crime Movie 2010. hd. Cooper: I wanted to spend some time in Walpole [at MCICedar Junction] and just observe. Id go sit in Fenway and be the only guy there. BOSTON - An infamous criminal, who claims he's robbed more than 100 banks, was arrested in an attempted heist in the Back Bay. The 6-foot-tall Dorchester-born rapper is an intimidating physical presence with a raspy grumble of a voice flavored with a thick Boston accent. Bens standing there and hes doing his public relations things, and people are swarming him. WebDouglas "Doug" MacRay is a former career criminal and professional bank robber from Charlestown, Boston, which was the bank robbery capital of the world. Boston Police report arresting Thomas Hickey, 49, of Charlestown, for a Nov. 30 bank robbery on Austin Street in which he allegedly pushed an elderly man who was in line before him out of the way at a teller window.. Police report arresting It was kind of a moment for them. Unlike them, Doug had a chance at success, a chance to escape following in his father's criminal footsteps. When youre underneath in the concourse space, you could drop a keg at one end of the ballpark and have it reverberate all the way around. (His co-star John Hamm once said thatwalking around Boston with Affleck was like walking around with the mayor.) They blew it up and both sides of the street, all the brick buildings were totally covered in soot. Craig: We went into a bit of a quandary about the ending. The city also set the scene for Clint Eastwoods Mystic River, and Afflecks directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, both based on books by local crime novelist Dennis Lehane. 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