CBGB Film Finishes Shooting; Release Planned for 2013
Relics from New York City’s bygone CBGB club – including “Smithsonian-quality pieces” like its bar, the phone booth, chunks of the walls and those stained toilets, all pulled from storage – will reunite on the big screen next year in CBGB, which indie filmmakers confirmed they finished shooting in August.
Forty years after CBGB opened its doors on the city’s Lower East Side, writer Jody Savin and director Randall Miller of Unclaimed Freight Productions tell Rolling Stone they are now editing the 100-minute feature. It tells the story of how the late Hilly Kristal offered his club’s cramped stage to bands playing original songs, which attracted groups like the Ramones, the Patti Smith Group and Talking Heads. In 1974 Television became the first act to play CBGB, and the band gigged there every Sunday for years before recording their album Marquee Moon. The club closed in 2006.
Though tax credits afforded filmmakers a suitable shooting location in Savannah, Georgia, this summer, initial production wrapped last month following a week’s worth of filming in Manhattan and on Kristal’s New Jersey farm.
CBGB will star both fresh faces and recognizable talent who look and sound the part of New York’s punk scene, including Malin Akerman, who bears a striking resemblance to Blondie’s Debbie Harry; Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, who dieted to fill the role of Iggy Pop; and Alan Rickman, who plays Kristal. READ MORE
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