Who knew?

[xraytheenforcer]

They're filming The Sorcerer's Apprentice in my nabe. Of course, it's really "Manhattan," to the point where I saw a shitload of subway signs proclaiming that I was, in fact, in the West 4th St. train station. (for those not familiar with NYC, West 4th Street is in the West Village of Manhattan. I live near 7th Street in Brooklyn, which is another island entirely. LOL.

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[misunderstruck.livejournal.com]

Curious.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

And curiouser.

They were filming on 9th Street, BTW.

I also learned that one can easily tap into the MTA power grid (that's how the crew is running all their equipment).

[rockstarwookie.livejournal.com]

Funny,
I was just saying to my mates last night, after seeing a TV Spot for "Knowing", that we should start a petition to demand that Nicholas Cage stop making movies.
Now, I go to IMDb and see he has 5 projects in the pipe for 2009 and 3 more for 2010 already!

We need this petition. Now, more than ever.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Now that's just cruel. 5 projects?!
(I've been hoping Cage would quit movies for at least a decade now).

[bassmike.livejournal.com]

WTF happened to Cage?
"Raising Arizona" is the best.

[terraprime.livejournal.com]

lol. Well, for us non New Yorkers, one gritty street looks just the same as the ohter! :D

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Punk.

[makotohanabi.livejournal.com]

Brooklyn, Manhattan all look the same to a clueless DC type.

Going to have fun asking her if she's doing a set visit to this one since Nicholas Cage is one of her "favorite" actors.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

haha. nice one.

[metzhead.livejournal.com]

well there's only about five million current and former residents of the five boroughs who will be able to spot the innacuracy.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

totally. "Hey, WTF! That's Prospect Park!"

[werthead.livejournal.com]

At least it's the same city/state/country/hemisphere. Every time I see Honolulu standing in for London on LOST - except the cars are on the wrong side of the road, all have the wrong-side drive and the 'British' pubs have massive Union Jacks over the bar - I want to yell at the TV.

Then in one episode they really made it convincing and I was impressed. Turns out it WAS London. The Immortal Alan Dale was in a play and couldn't get away, so made the production crew fly halfway round the world to film his part (which was about five minutes in one episode). Badass.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

hahaha. that is pretty bad.

[limecat-lotn.livejournal.com]

This happened to me once. I got off the train at what I thought was Bay Station, but it turned out to be in NYC. At first, I thought I had traveled through a wormhole, and I was like - Sweet, a wormhole train! But then I realized that I was drunk. Also, that wormholes were not real. After that, I figured out it was set up for a movie. It was rather confusing.

Anyway, I am kind of surprised that NYC does not have a few old stations that they use for dedicated film sets.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

fuck! I totally want a wormhole subway. that would RULE.