City activist Jim Carlucci seems to have become the unofficial point-man for the production team working on the film adaptation of local author Janet Evanovich’s “One For the Money.”
Slated to star Grey’s Anatomy’s Katherine Heigl as the series’ heroine Stephanie Plum, the movie will likely not be shot in Trenton. Pittsburgh neighborhoods will stand in for Trenton instead.
But members of the production team visited with Carlucci in Trenton last week and Thursday they asked him to help in getting the look of an NJ Transit bus down just right.
“I applaud them for trying to get all the details right,” Carlucci said.
Carlucci said he directed them to the transit agency’s Web site, then took matters into his own hands by snapping off a few bus pictures to send to the folks from Hollywood.
While acknowledging his disappointment in not having the production crews, and their influx of money, in the city, Carlucci said he hoped that keeping the lines of communication open might bring opportunities in the future if other books in the series are optioned for the big screen.
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