Friday, April 5, 2013

That movie Keanu Reeves filmed in the East Village opens May 3



Remember back in the fall of 2010, when Keanu Reeves was around the neighborhood filming scenes for that low-budget indie called "Generation UM"?

Yeah, I didn't either.

But! I revisited the archives... (Here and here.)

Out friend Cat Sitter in the City remembers! From Oct. 6, 2010:

I keep getting distracted by the sound of someone yelling instructions and people cheering. I just went outside to see what's going on, and I found myself standing about six feet away from Keanu Reeves on the corner of 11th Street and Avenue A. Dressed all in black, he is tall and handsome as you would expect.

I didn't want to snap a photo of him because I felt like I would be invading his privacy (I wouldn't fare so well as a paparazzo, would I?), so I took a picture of the other people in the scene with him. They were all dressed like cowboys and cowgirls, and they kept chasing Keanu out of the parking lot and down 11th Street.

Anyway, the film starring the "Point Break" star (Johnny Utah!) opens in New York on May 3. And I just received an official media (woo!) invite for the screening (really likely not going).

Here is the official trailer. Take it away, Keanu!



OK then. And now, one more look back, when Keanu was supposedly living during the filming in a nice place on East Ninth Street between Avenue B and Avenue C...

[EVG reader Steve from October 2010]

13 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi EV Grieve. This is Cat Sitter in the City. I actually had another Keanu Reeves encounter recently. Well, "encounter" probably isn't the right word. But I was having breakfast at Cafe Orlin recently, and he was there dining alone. I should have asked him if he has a cat.

EV Grieve said...

@ Cat Sitter

Keanu strikes me as more of a dog person.

I definitely think you should ask next time that you see him!

Anonymous said...

This might have been filmed in the East Village but it has Williamsburg written all over it.

Spike said...

I would totally go to this movie with a free pass. K-Ree is a guilty pleasure of mine.

SnarkHonk said...

This looks terrible. Must miss.

Anonymous said...

I wonder if he was a good customer here. A relative of mine upstate said when Keanu filmed there he and his crew all came to the bar he works at and didn't even pay for their drinks let alone tip!

Makeout said...

Since when does the star intro their own flick? WTF? Might see it wasted then rent it seven years later.

EV Grieve said...

It might make for a curiosity piece in about, oh, 10 years... to see how much things have changes, like the former Mary Help of Christians lot become a massive apartment complex.

Anonymous said...

Hmm. Always thought he lived at Christadora. (used to?) (does?) (didn't) (doesn't?)

Anonymous said...

A movie about people that are completely into themselves. You can see the type at brunch in the EV any weekend.

Anonymous said...

@ Anon 12:16

He came into a bar I was working in around the time he must've been making this movie. He and his friends were perfectly pleasant and he left a big wad of cash on the bar and instructed me to take (he was paying for all the drinks) whatever I needed each round. He re-upped the pile when it got low and then when he left whatever was left in the pile ended up being my tip. It was a decent tip.

Fipper said...

C'mon, that tagline says it all...

Anonymous said...

Keanu lives on the UWS