Originally posted by: Stratum9
I was living in Richmond, Va. back when they were filming the Charlie Sheen movie
The Shadow Conspiracy. The movie was only a so-so action thriller but they filmed it in several places in the city I was familiar with. They were using Richmond as a stand-in for the D.C area.
They had one street blocked off for severall blocks only two streets away from my walk-up apartment near downtown. I went over there once but the street was deserted because they happened to be filming indoors that day. I wasn't able to go there on the day they filmed the car chase scenes.
The climax of the movie where Sheen and the vilian duke it out and the vilian goes crashing through a glass roof onto a grand piano was filmed in the building I worked at as a night security gaurd three years before that when I'd first moved to the city.
A foot chase through what appears to be a factory is actually the plant for the printing press of the Richmond Times Dispatch, the newspaper I was working for at the time.
There was a scene filmed near the base of the James River bridge where I sometimes went hiking and the final scene with Charlie Sheen and Linda Hamilton in a park was the park close to my apartment where my wife and I often rode bikes or went jogging.
By the time the movie was released and I rented the video, I no longer lived in Virginia so it was fun seeing my old stomping grounds all the way through the film. That was actually better than the movie itself because the movie wasn't all that great to begin with.
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