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Movies filmed in and set in Detroit · Kvetch & Release

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  Maybe you're like me and when you're watching a cable flipping through the channels,
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  maybe you're on Prime or Netflix or Disney Plus or Hulu or oh my god,
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  there's way too many of these things. How am I affording it?
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  Let's be honest, quite frankly, but you're looking through the shows and you
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  go, that's Detroit. I know that area. I've seen that before.
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  Now listen, eight mile comes to mind right off the bat. Of course,
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  how could it not grand to Reno as well? A lot of people
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  might remember. But the list is, quite frankly, very long. And
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  there's reasons why people have filmed traditionally in Detroit. One they wanted to,
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  you know, actually just be in Detroit. It had to do with the
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  movie. They had to do that. Other times it's because they want to
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  have a big, bustling metropolis and Detroit can pull that off relatively cheap.
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  Or maybe it's because they want the post apocalyptic degradation decay that Detroit has unfortunately
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  been known for. Lots of different reasons people decide to film in Detroit,
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  but what it always means is that it's going to be a good movie because
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  with Detroit being on this screen, We know that it helps out the economy
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  as a whole. It helps just project an image of the city. It's
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  it's it's a positive thing. Joining me right now is a film officionado,
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  Ryan Richardson. You hear him often here on AM eight hundred on the round
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  Table. He's the host of the Go Tell Someone podcast. Joining Me Live
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  in studio, Ryan Afternoon, Good afternoon, film officionado. That that sounds
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  better than couch potato. There's there's a there's a wait and bravatas to one
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  person's couch potatoes, one person's film. I'm gonna put that on a card.
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  There you go. I like film. You can have an asterisk and
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  say, as penned by John that's what I put on everything. It's might
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  be why you're not getting the return from all listen. Transformers, of course,
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  is probably a good place for us to start right now. With the
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  rebirth of Michigan Central. We talked about that last week. You know that
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  Transformers was filmed in the build A building and that's the reason they chose it,
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  right. It was because it was dilapidated, because it looked, it
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  looked horrible, and it was that that scene at the end of the movie
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  where he goes running into the building and then Megatron comes after him and there's
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  just destruction because it was an old Rundown building that nobody ever thought was going
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  to come back, and and it did in a in a grand way to
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  say the least. Definitely, that's got me thinking, certainly when I was
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  thinking about about Detroit and kind of it's rebirth of what was going on.
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  I looked at all the movies you said it exactly. It's cool to be
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  watching a movie and you see Detroit, or you're watching Last Call and you
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  can see windsor which is I think there's a screening in the twenty second at
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  the Retro Festival coming up here with Wiff. But it's cool to see something
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  you recognize, like there's you know, there's most of the time you see
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  stuff in Hollywood or in Vancouver or in Toronto, and yeah, that's cool
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  and all that. But when you it's in your own backyard, it's it's
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  pretty cool. I remember being downtown a couple of years ago and there was
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  this you were in New York. They had transformed part of downtown Detroit into
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  New York and they were filming Harold and Kumar's the Christmas Movie. So those
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  kinds of things that are just neat to see, as you know, as
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  a film Officionado, thank you very much. It's just cool to see stuff
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  happening in your neck of the woods or in area that you grew up in,
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  or something that you recognized in the middle of the movie. It's totally
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  cool. I remember when I was a kid it was presumed innocent, which
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  I don't know if you know that one that was Harrison Ford film. But
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  it was shot, there's shot. There was a lot of it was shot
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  in Detroit, but there's also there were scenes were shot at the Peace Fountain,
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  like at ram Park there. Oh really yeah, that's super co So
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  when you're watching it you can actually see Windsor and of course see Detroit in
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  the background. It's you know, it's as we said, there's a lot
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  of reasons why people have filmed in Detroit, but it gives you that hometown
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  pride, even though we hear are in Windsor, we're not in Detroit.
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  But it's like when I see a Chrysler Town and Country or Pacifica on the
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  screen and I go, hey, that was made in Windsor. I know
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  that was made just now, right, the Broncos that's done in Wayne,
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  Michigan. Yes, I mean, it's these are things that you know,
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  make us excited. I'm a similar vain. I was watching the show Reacher
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  and there was a shot that took part at sort of like this automotive graveyard,
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  and I went, that's a transit windsor bus, Like, I know
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  those colors. I'm positive of it. And I looked up, you know,
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  transit windsor photos and then I looked at where Reacher was filmed, and
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  it was filmed in the Kitchener, so it's not that crazy to think it
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  might actually be a transit windsor bus. And then when I searched transit windsor
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  bus and I put it into Google, the actual bus that was on Reacher
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  was one of the top images that were on Google. It's same number.
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  Like, what is it that makes us so excited about seeing something that we
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  recognize? Nostalgia right, like that familiarity right again, So so many times
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  Hollywood is just so far removed from where we're at. So when you have
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  that and certainly seen that over the years, where they're not only shooting in
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  that one location, aname where they're shooting around the world, They're shooting across
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  Canada. Michigan was really going through some growth at a Michigan Film commission,
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  which is why transformers came in and all that kind of stuff. And unfortunately
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  when Governor Rick I can't remember his last name, Yeah, that guy I
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  did. I didn't remember Governor Rick is pretty good. I didn't remember it
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  on purpose. Fine, but he came in. One of his platforms going
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  in was I'm going to get rid of the Michigan Film Commission, and he
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  killed a lot of the stuff. Sam Raimi, who was a Detroit guy,
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  had had built a studio in round Pontiac. I don't even know what
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  the state of it is now, if it's still there or whatever. But
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  I mean there was all these there were all these incentives for filmmakers to come
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  to Michigan, and they were really pushing, you know, come to Michigan
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  and film like and so he hopefully that can come back with Governor Whitmer.
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  Maybe maybe that can come back in some way, shape or form. But
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  yeah, I mean so many great films have been I mean, Beverly Hills,
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  copeh goodness, I mean, it was it was the whole opening sequences
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  that chase through downtown Detroit, and they just filmed Beverly Hills cop what two
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  or three? It just comes back in a couple weeks apparently. Yeah,
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  So, I mean it's cheap. It's cheaper to shut down a street in
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  Detroit than it is to shut down one in New York. Los Angeles looked,
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  and quite frankly, as we've been talking about, like in LA or
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  in New York, you're getting like everyone in their grandmother is coming to film
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  movies and stuff, Whereas when it happens in Michigan, you're probably gonna get
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  the full red carpet treatment. Apps know that the state will be behind you,
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  the city is going to be behind you, and that says a lot.
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  I remember when I was a kid, I went to LA and I
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  went to see a bunch of concerts, and what I found was that people
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  didn't do encores. And I'm like, I'm from windsor Detroit, like there
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  has to be an encore, And people were like, well, we'll see
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  him next week. They play here all the time. And the same that
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  you could kind of say the same thing about film prouctions. You're going to
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  see a film production everywhere you go in LA But it's a rare and a
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  cool thing, and we will treat you better for coming and filming and doing
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  a film here. And we see things like with and we see Gavin Michael
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  Booth and people like that that are bringing those productions to our city, which
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  is amazing. Oh, absolutely so. And again I'm looking at the stack
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  of DVDs that you have that you posted on which most people have gotten rid
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  of the actual physical copies. But oh they're gonna be great when the power
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  goes out and you've got an external monitor, let me tell you that,
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  or the Wi Fi goes down. Yeah, so I'm just I'm looking here,
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  grand Tono, dark Man Dream great against Sam Raimi. Yep. Well,
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  and you know Sam Raimi of course did that first Spider Man movie way
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  back when. Of course, eight Miles the Whiz, the Robocops series.
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  I mean, it's it's even even private parts had there was this because Howard
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  Stern got his starting Detroit right there was there was a segment in there that
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  was about Detroit and him being here for w www. I believe. So
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  it's crazy, it's incredible, how I mean, I guess it's just representation
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  ultimately at the end of the day, and when we feel and we see
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  and we can hear that rep presentation of where we're from, it's it's it's
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  like a rallying cry. Doesn't hurt with getting some people from the area to
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  watch the movie as well. But lord knows, there's not nearly enough that's
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  going to have an actual impact on the dollar amount that's taken in. But
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  it's just it's nice to see. Yeah, absolutely, And there's so much
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  talent out of out of both of these border cities. So many people that
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  have that have made it. Alice Cooper a goodness, Key Key from Key
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  and Peel from Detroit. Sam Richardson, you know that all the people that
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  were at their lot were at the event last week. Mike Apps like,
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  there's a lot of there's a lot of talent that's come out of Detroit that
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  I think we need to highlight Detroit in windsor sorry, that we should highlight
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  more often and kind of celebrate in many ways. Oh, I think you're
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  absolutely right. I'm not going to be incredibly brave and go a different track
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  and disagree with you on that. That's right, terrible. I want to
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  thank you so much for coming to the studio and join me to thank you.
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  Appreciate it. Ryan Richardson, film aficionado, host of the Go Tell
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  Someone podcast. You'll hear them often here on AM eight hundred c klw's dam
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  McDonald's show with the round Table. Really appreciate your time, Ryan, Thank
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  you so much,