Arts & Entertainment

Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones And Steve Carell Could Be Coming To Mystic

Mandate Pictures Considering Mystic For Filming Of Great Hope Springs

In just a few months locals may run into Meryl Streep, Tommy Lee Jones or Steve Carell around the streets of Mystic.

The three are the stars of a movie that could begin filming in Mystic at the end August or September.

Mandate Pictures is considering Mystic for some of the filming of the feature film Great Hope Springs.  On Friday, Mandate Pictures, which is based out of Santa Monica, California said they did not have anything definitive on where the filming would take place.

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 First Selectman Edward Haberek Jr., said he expected a decision to made on the film within the next week or so. According to Haberek studio representatives had looked at locations in Mystic several weeks ago.

 Great Hope Springs, according to a press release from Mandate Pictures follows Streep who plays a woman named Maeve seeking to spice her marriage up. Maeve and her husband (Jones) go to the town of Great Hope Springs to meet relationship guru (Carell) for “an intense week of marriage and sex therapy.”

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The film would be the second in just a few months to be filmed in Mystic. Synthetic Cinema International filmed the horror film Steve Niles’ Remains in June at the and at various locations in Norwich. That film, according to an NBCUniversal press release, “follows the survivors of a bizarre accident that reduced most of the world’s population to . Grant Bowler of True Blood and Ugly Betty, Lance Reddick of Fringe, Lost and The Wire, Miko Hughes of Pet Sematary and Twany Cypress of Rescue Me and Heroes star in the zombie movie.


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