The Den of Geek quarterly magazine is packed with exclusive features, interviews, previews and deep dives into geek culture. 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. 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. And I thought, Not only is she the best actress for the part, shes gonna be able to really surprise people.. . Free shipping for many products! Its ruined my life, literally, but Im proud.. Its something Ive seen other directors do. That was the most important part, because he could so easily lapse into clich. I look over and its Pete, and hes having his breakfast, and hes reading the paper, and I hadnt met him before because I didnt have any scenes with him. And then a few months later I got a call and they were like, Oh, we want you to come back in and audition for the director. I show up at this office in Cambridge to go in and read and all of a sudden I see Ben Affleck walk in. Affleck: With Jeremy Renner, somebody said to me, Theres this guy, hes got this movie coming out that you should see, its supposed to be really good. For example, with my brother [Casey] in Gone Baby Gone, I thought it really benefited from the fact that he wasnt so well-known. In Black Mass, Johnny Depp plays South Boston mobster James Whitey Bulger, an Irish gangster who informed on the Italian mob to the FBI. Upon his exit, the bank employees activated Jem is furious when he finds Doug cozying up to Claire, the bank manager who could finger them to the Feds. Theyre incarcerated. 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. Afflecks Doug MacRay, the leader of the gang, is the one whos gotten tired of the life. They went to jail because there were cracks on the pavement, leaks on the street. Jem spent nine years in prison for killing a local thug who was planning to kill Doug. Chuck Hogans novel Prince of Thieves opens with a toast: To Charlestown, our one square mile of brick and cobblestone. Iran. Cooper: I think he was just having a ball with this character. After managing to evade a manhunt and escape to Florida, his character says goodbye to Claire via a letter. 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. Agents with the FBI believe Gage Haws robbed five small town banks throughout northwest Ohio. 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. Affleck said he picked up the term from a guy at New Sullys bar:I asked, Whats the thing with the Tunies? And he said the Tunies moved in and the Townies stole all their car stereos. All three were 25 or under. According to the Associated Press, Shea, along with Patrick McGonagle, Michael OHalloran, Stephen Burke, and Matthew McDonald, were all from the same And Major League Baseball was open to itthat was what I was really afraid of. Hed done his time. September 2009. Cooper: I dont know Jeremys height, but Ben is a pretty big boy. So I read this new version of the script. Its Renners Oscar moment. The crew at the center of The Town resembles a gang of five masked robbers who pulled holdups from 1990 to 1995. Burke: To go sit in the stands with Jeremy Renner in an empty stadium, it was surreal. Ill do that., My place in Connecticut is only three hours from Boston, so I just, on a whim, jumped in the car, drove up to Boston, went to the production office and walked in, and David Crockett, one of the producers, and Chay were like, Hey, what are you doing? And I said to Chay, Oh, Im Detective such and such. And she was like, You fucker. I said, Is he here? And she said, Yeah, hes down doing auditions downstairs., I kind of slipped in and waited in line and then said to the production assistant, Dont say my name. Affleck: Jeremy came in and was just awesome. And more than anything, just from a noise standpoint, it was kind of unique. She prepped for that for God knows how long. At one point we even had Brad Pitt ready to do it so it was really close. Affleck was determined to make sure that his main cast could at least pass as true Massholes. Some were ex-convicts for whom a judges permission had to be sought for them to carry weapons, even fake or unloaded ones. Its not a super cheap movie but its not expensive like a studio movie. Theres a lot of different stories to tell. Determined to get a better grip on the place, he brought in another local, his old school friend Stockard, and began an intensive period of research. So all of a sudden, while theyre getting married, they hear gunshots at Fenway. Maybe its not balls; maybe cocky is the right word to describe him. Four men in ski masks ambushed and hijacked the Northeast Armored Transport truck Aug. 25, 1994, in a parking lot of a branch of the NFS Savings Bank in Hudson. Hogan: I was just checking out the internet one day in my office and I saw a Variety headline: Affleck moves to The Town. I called my wife over and said, I think theyre making a movie of the book. And that was it. IS Charlestown MA known for Bank robbers? So I was thrilled. Carter: Someone was getting married. All they see are yuppies. [Lively did not respond to a request to be interviewed for this article. 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. Or rather, close enough for himto understand how little he knew about it. I came back and met with Ben, and I was so excited. All three were from Charlestown. These were to prove fundamental to the films success, yielding some of its most memorable moments. Provo, UT, United States () -Provo Towne Center 1200 Towne Centre Blvd Ste B. The Town was originally set to be a three-and-a-half-hour-long epic directed by Fatal Attractions Adrian Lyne. Welliver: I had an experience several years before for a David Kelley show called The Practice which took place in Boston. And that looks like a detail youd come up with writing a script. But he pointed out the quote. 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 The full version. [Through a representative, Renner declined to be interviewed for this article.]. And this was toward the end of the shoot. But it was very real. "Ben Affleck Played Me". Chris Cooper (Stephen MacRay): Ben had me at prison. It was great. As I got older I lived in [Jamaica Plain], West Roxbury, where my son was born. Affleck: Id been in action sequences plenty, so I kind of knew how they worked. They dont squeal. 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. And I hadnt seen it with the new one tacked on. Do everything youre supposed to do, they wont be harmed.. Crockett: As he puts it, you have so many fame chips you can use. I was cutting out pieces of felt while Gina [Rhodes] was stitching themmaking, by hand, the fake Bruins logo. He set the bar with those filmsyou [must] reach a modicum of the depth and the artistry of those films if youre going to do a Boston film. Neighborhood of Boston, yet lopped off every map of the city like a bastard cropped out of a happy family portrait. And Im like, Whoa, so he must be the director.. Particularly commercial success. She is the interloping gentry and renovates Dougs headspace. But one of the greatest films about Boston goes back to 1973. 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. They were all from Charlestown. And thats just sort of the natural progression. After a seven-day trial, they were convicted on 54 of 55 counts of robbery, including one which resulted in the death of two armored car guards. She was doing Gossip Girl, which at the time people thought like, Oh, thats just a CW Y.A. Welliver: If anything, people were kind of burned out on the New York gangster genre. The way John tells the story is, Of course I do two [moves] on him and Ive got him and he cant move, and [Afflecks] like, alright, alright, alright!. And I was like, Why are the people who live here letting us do this? It was taking a period of time that had passed and pretending it was still a reality. I dont even think they had sidewalks. It included a mastermind, a distraction, a partner, a coordinator, a backer, hacker, con man, and gadget guy. 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. Hall: I just remember him being so mercurial. He has a certain thing in that town. Affleck: In a world of increasing homogenization, having this fresh place that I think stood out, it was appealing. 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. Extremely plausible. We all want to drive a f----n caaar like Gloansy. It later served as inspiration for the Massachusetts natives third book. Affleck: The Yawkey Red Sox, Im sure, wouldve been impossible. [The Town] is not just entertainment and popcorn. The feds, they get shuffled around all over the country. Bens standing there and hes doing his public relations things, and people are swarming him. Burch: We did it during off days. Stockard: Obviously youre making a movie so you mythologize it a little bit. The top of his head was really messed up. Affleck was born in Berkeley, California but grew up in Cambridge, also across the Charles River from Boston but far removed from the inner-city neighborhood of the film. The whole reason Matt and I wanted to do Good Will Hunting was kind of as an acting reel so that we could get jobs as actors. You dont know where they come from. The movie opened on September 17, 2010, to overwhelmingly positive reviews and eventually grossed $154 million at the worldwide box office. 2 hours ago. Ill use them because Im from Boston to get into Fenway. I had a darker ending in it, like a real 70s ending, where Doug dies. Starring: Ben Affleck Rebecca Hall Jon Hamm Jeremy Renner Blake Lively. They look at him. 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. Affleck: Hockeys such a big thing in Charlestown. Hamm: We could all go, hang out at the bar; me and Rebecca, and Renner, and Titus, that whole crowd. The guests ran for cover. In 2010, Affleck directed The Town, a drama about a gang of Charlestown armored car robbers. Whats the best way to get there?. Theres two ways that this can go. He grew up in Cambridge,which was close enough to Charlestown for him to know a little about it. You didnt really know what was coming. And she really focused specifically, not only on like, an American accent, but what it sounded like in Marblehead, which doesnt sound like Charlestown. I said, Really, Ive got to drive all the way to fucking Boston to get a meeting with you? He looked at me and went, Youre crazy. I said, No, Im not. He said, So, you really want to be in this film? I went, Yeah. And then he went, Dino? I went, Yeah. He went, OK. And so Adrian developed it for quite some time. Claire foretells the doom of Charlestowns criminal culture. This is the script I want. And I said, Adrian, this is gonna be a three-and-a-half-hour movie. Hes like, Well, if Scorsese can make a three-and-a-half-hour movie, I want to.. Affleck: I was very self-conscious about being limited to being the Boston guy. The car contained stolen money an Affleck: The hothead friend. 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. 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. But as I was signing books afterwards, I see this guy coming up. Which was nice. He claims that Ben Affleck played him in the movie, but now this former bank robber i. 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. And they led me into this little alleyway. When its not, its predictable and obvious and trite. A decade after establishing his Boston bona fides by cowriting and appearing in Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, he was offered a chance to adapt Prince of Thieves for the screen. He was in his early 20s. This shooting game is the newest brilliant sneaking FPS game. He was quite clear. Thats my quote that you used in the book. I was like, Oh man, whats up? He was excited. It was kind of a moment for them. So we wrote parts for characters with Boston accents because we thought that was something that we could do well and that you saw done badly. They think theres no more serious white people in Charlestown, says local girl Kris (Blake Lively) early in the film. I kind of got to tiptoe around and watch them shooting from afar without them knowing I was there. Affleck: Those little streets created something visually interesting that you dont see in many car chases. Its an action movie where you get to root for the bad guys. FINDLAY, Ohio (WTVG) - Authorities arrested a man in Findlay Monday on bank robbery charges. Stockard: Ben and I went and spent a day with this FBI task force. WebThe Town. When fans of The Town think of Charlestown, they think of banks and bars and punchlines. WebCharlestownis the oldest neighborhoodin Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States. Claire represents the real problem at the center of the proceedings. Most of the heists in The Town were inspired by real crimes from that era. He had robbed a couple of banks in Boston years before. After shooting one guard outside the car and one inside the bank, they escaped in a rental truck. Stockard: The movie that we thought about was [Michael Manns] Heat. 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. Thats the thing, that theres a kind of ownership and its beautiful. Affleck: My favorite moment in the movie, cinematically, came directly from a conversation I had with a guy who was in MCI-Norfolk at the time. What is the penalty for bank robbery in mass? This isnt because those criminals made the sloppiest getaways. He also ran afoul of the law himself, recruiting real ex-cons as extras and giving them guns. Dont run away from it. We love that movie, dont be afraid of doing things that they did that worked. 2 hours ago. The imitators that his opus spawned, however, couldnt recreate what he managed to. 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.. Unfair or not, Charlestown had a reputation. Affleck: Its parochial and kind of a small town in some ways. Burke: It was not on my radar at all. You definitely get more of that in BPD and the local cops. For his turn as Jem, Renner was nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscar, though he lost out to Christian Bale, who played the troubled brother of boxer Micky Ward in yet another movie set in Massachusetts: The Fighter. 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. Affleck: There have been a lot more New York city movies than there have Boston, for sure. Ill tell you what Im gonna do. And so we were a little bit extra, extra respectful. The Town captures the locale expertly, and the atmosphere masterfully. 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 Hogan: Dick Wolf from Law & Order somehow read [the book] early. No above-the-line people got paid any money. Now, William shares his story after his Caught in Providence case went viral. However, everybody will want to go see it. And they walked me over to this locked door and once you opened it, there was an old, dusty cobwebby circular staircase. 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. To get to Charlestown was to live free. By the way? Director: Ben Affleck. 2023 date, start time and how to watch, From the stripper to the slap: the worst moments in Oscars history, Pedro Pascal is the best actor on TV even behind a mask. They are holding their automatic weapons and wearing their disguises. In the 70s, New York was that. Affleck: I had great stunt drivers. They wore wigs, fake bears and masks; in the film, brilliantly, these became nun masks and habits. And I still am. Or a child abduction? 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. And in an exciting way. Cooper: It was kind of this crisp evening. Whats better than that? Welliver: The character Dino was a cop who grew up in Charlestown. Job. Blake Lively was sent into bars, real hoodlums were cast and a wedding party was spooked by gunfire. Slaine: Im convinced my hearing is still not the same after that film. I went in to audition. Al Pacinos Sonny in Dog Day Afternoon wants enough money to give a better life to his wives. I was up there for what Im sure was a good half hour. He was like, Thats me. So I leave the movie theater and Im really kind of numb, trying to figure it out. Theyd closed off the street, working on this story that I had cooked up in my bedroom at home. Welliver: When we were doing The Town is when he was up for the role of Hawkeye. And Blake spent some time with her. I feel like were still in the black. He gave me so much ammunition all the time to play off and to feel. If the Herald said that, I mightve taken it more personally. And Ill tell you why: Nobody was rooting for Jon Hamm and the cops. 371K. Hall: It felt like cinema in the classic sense. Then put it in Connecticut.. Tyre marks matched those found in Houston, and five men were eventually convicted. 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. Los Angles police on high alert for grand theft and planned robbery in town. Craig: [Jeff] Robinov, [the president] at Warners, really wanted to make the movie. This really happened it was described to Affleck by a man serving time. Just finding a place to park the trucks. And a lot of older actors, [when theyre] told, Go here, do this, a lot of these guys are like, Fuck off. An earlier version of this piece misspelled Roslindale. When I got there, I went up on the walkway, on the first-base side, looking down. 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. soap.. Hogan: Warner Bros. didnt want to make the movie for that amount. It is sloppy, sleazy, quickie. Hes been played by Johnny Depp, Warren Oates, and Lawrence Tierney. Cooper: Hes had a wonderful career, but [The Town] was a big shot in the arm for him. He was the leader that he is. At heart, its a story of social mobility. This was a garage that Afflecks Doug almost got out of his predetermined life. Those are the blueprints, thats the template. The violent film starring Jeremy Renner, John Hamm and Ben Affleck centers on the Boston neighborhood of Charlestown. 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. He was a local hockey star who got drafted by the NHL, but started beating on his own teammates and got sent back home. 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. Its not just an accent, its more of an attitude. Im gonna do a movie about Iran.. Many of them testified that they had grown tired of a life of stealing, of drugs, of broken relationships.. The most notorious took place outside the NFS Savings Bank in Hudson, N.Y., on Aug. 25, 1994, when an armored car pulled up shortly after 9 a.m. It had to feel like Bruins. 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. Download Bank Robbery missions 2017 and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Theyre stopping at an exactly certain point and if they go too far, peoples lives are at stakeits a very serious thing. It also had a scheme so ingenious that Frank Sinatra supposedly considered pulling the job over doing the film. It all went to the actual production of the movie. He was not doing great [health-wise]. The robbers And they were like, Just so you know, weve had some calls and threats of violence. People didnt know what the book was, I think they were expecting something that would really knock Charlestown. Matheson: I will never forget sitting there with some felt and scissors at 3 or 4 in the morning. Solemn now: To The Town. I lived in South Boston, Roslindale. David Crockett (producer): They read, and not saying who she was or what she was in, she did the [Boston] accent. Id made Gone Baby Gone for $18 million. We went back to his hotel room right after. The bank robbers step out of their vehicle. But wrapping that in the sort of candy shell of a heist movie. Beyond the flashy heists, The Townrenamed because Prince of Thieves had already been used as the subtitle of Kevin Costners version of Robin Hoodis a movie about fate, loyalty, and morality, and how those things commingle. WebDouglas "Doug" MacRay is a former career criminal and professional bank robber from Charlestown, Boston, which was the bank robbery capital of the world. The Town was initially supposed to end with Doug paying for his sins with his life. He robbed banks but let the civilians in the banks keep their money. He said, Theyre looking for guys like you. And so I went over and I read a few lines, they took my picture. Blake came in and read the scene and was amazing. It would go from completely quiet at 5 oclock in the morning to suddenly its like doing theater on a massive scale. And I was like, Who the hell is this guy? The romance in the middle of the film is only there to delineate the boundaries between heist film and crime procedural. He was with his mother. He was doing a long sentence. Affleck: Im like, Why the fuck do you think people go to hockey games? Swearing and fighting. So many broke the code, shattered the code. And then she recorded her voice, read some of the pages, so that we shared that with Blake Lively, so she could try to get the accent down. Because along with watching the movie, I was working hard to process it. The Cambridge native and his crew were back in Charlestown last week re-shooting an alternative ending to the bank robber thriller. Everybody in attendance loved it; no car windows smashed or anything like that. He made my job easy. If possible, its really great to hire people with whom an audience isnt overly familiar, because audiences have developed expectations and kind of anticipate what an actor might do if theyve seen them a bunch. 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.. 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. As for Affleck, the success of The Town helped advance his career as a director. Thats the one moment that gives you a glimpse into how damaged and how profoundly broken Jem is. The bank robbers, who were very much an element of life in the neighborhood for decades, have been gone for 15 years, replaced by a new Charlestown where gentrification has taken hold and the more accurate stereotype of the moment is: Oh, you must be a yuppie. Police figures from 2010 showed that Charlestown accounted for barely 2 per cent of all Boston robberies (not just bank robberies). You can come over to my house for dinner. It was just short of, If you need protection, were here for you. It was incredible. You couldve just called me.. Hed be happy to settle down with his former hostage, Claire Keesey (Rebecca Hall). He also made sure to populate the movie with people who didnt have to fake their Boston accents. We had this huge screen over the third base dugout. Carter: That scene at the end, where you see [Jem] running across the street trying to get away from the cops, and the cars, obviously those are stunt drivers, theyre stopping really quick. Violence, unsolved murders . 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