Crews for "The Deuce," HBO's upcoming drama series starring James Franco and Maggie Gyllenhaal, continued to film in parts of the neighborhood today (they were shooting a scene at Josie's on Sixth Street earlier)... the above photo via @slicksean shows the altered exterior of the City Cinemas Village East on Second Avenue at 12th Street ... transformed into an adult theater...
Here's more on the series via Deadline:
Written by "The Wire" creator David Simon and longtime collaborator George Pelecanos and directed by Michelle MacLaren, The Deuce follows the HBO blue logostory of the legalization and subsequent rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s, exploring the rough-and-tumble world that existed there until the rise of HIV, the violence of the cocaine epidemic, and the renewed real estate market ended the bawdy turbulence.
I am very interested to see Maggie in this picture.
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I did a double take when I saw the marquee early that morning, but quickly realized, by the old 60's cars parked across the street that this was a shoot. But the little boy walking by with his parents did not and asked his parents, "what does that x-rated mean?" They didn't know what to say and quickly walked on up the avenue. Maybe they told him it was new X men movie.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this. Hopefully its everything that Vinyl wasn't in terms of depicting 1970s NYC.
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