ICE CUBE: Dead Men, Domes and the Flyers Zombie Apocalypse

"The great Rob Zombie making a drama feature film about the Broad Street Bullies is exciting and thrilling for all of us," said Bob Clarke.

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ICE CUBE: Dead Men, Domes and the Flyers Zombie Apocalypse

POSTED: Thursday, June 21, 2012, 9:00 AM

Filed Under: Ice Cubes | Movies

A few things from Philly’s film front this week. Until we get the hard scoop on who’ll hit downtown first, if at all, this summer — Robert DeNiro, Martin Scorsese or Will Smith (as previously mentioned) — this will have to hold us.

Several weeks ago, we mentioned that Dead Man Down’s last days of filming would happen around (not on) June 20. Tuesday in the late night a.m., yellow fliers popped up around the Italian Market and starting this morning, June 21-22, the Colin Farrell/Terrence Howard film’s final sessions will commence in my neighborhood. The yellow signs are all over Washington, Passyunk at Ninth and the Ellsworth/Kimball area between 7th and 11th streets and state that the filming will go from 9 a.m. Thursday to 9 a.m. Friday. It’ll be a scorcher, gents. Farrell’s Irish. Bring sun block. And fans, this should be your last look-see as he’s said his goodbyes to his hotel and sporting club compadres in town. Greater Philly Film doyenne Sharon Pinkenson confirmed that this is the last shoot.

Last Thursday, we happened onto the start of a shoot for the USA Network’s Political Animals, the Sigourney Weaver/Vanessa Redgrave presidential mini-series that is scheduled to stay in Philly for a schedule running until July. What we hit upon was a shoot that turned the Raw Sushi Lounge into the Dome club (hence a new temporary sign above Raw’s door with just a “D”), a private VIP joint with limos and black SUVs racing down Sansom Street between 12th and 13th. A Political Animal character named “TJ” was set to hold a meeting in the Dome. Sounds nefarious. My photo’s from a quick dusk shoot and is a little dark. (PS: Several members of this same crew are will be on the Harrison Ford/Gary Oldman thriller, Paranoia, that should start lensing in July. We’ll be there.)

Finally there’s the Philadelphia Flyers, whose grand grappling roughhouse hockey tale — Broad Street Bullies — gets a Hollywood adaptation directed and written by none-other-than Rob Zombie, the industrial-metal god who has gone from White Zombie to making movies on a regular basis such as House of 1000 Corpses. For the record, the 1970s Flyers were pretty mean and gory so maybe Zombie could subtitle his film a House of 2,000 Corpses. According to Deadline.com, Zombie “got the rights to the team’s story and has the full support of the Flyers organization” (though no word on if it will film in town) with a quote from ex-Flyer great and team senior vice president Bobby Clarke. “The great Rob Zombie making a drama feature film about the Broad Street Bullies is exciting and thrilling for all of us,” said Clarke. “I look forward to seeing it.” I thought Clarke was a Slipknot man. Stay tuned. But not real soon. “I don’t think that he [Zombie] has even written the screenplay yet,” says Pinkenson.

Raw Lounge on Sansom Street becomes the Dome club for the directors of Political Animals. By A.D. Amorosi

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