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Filmmakers want people with antique cars, trucks and buses from 1930 to 1935 to bring them, or pictures of them, to Milwaukee’s Miller Park between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Sunday.
They could be chosen for use in the film that will star Johnny Depp as Depression era bank robber John Dillinger, who was killed by FBI agents in Chicago in 1934.
Filming is expected to start in March. Director Michael Mann and various representatives have been scouting locations throughout the state. It’s not known which ones will be used.
Universal Studios applied with the Department of Commerce for the state’s recently enacted financial incentives to shoot major parts of the movie in Wisconsin, but the deal hasn’t been finalized.
Howard Bachrach, supervising the vehicle search for the movie, said 45 people turned out for a vehicle call in Madison last Sunday.
“It went well,” he said.
“We only had a couple people show up with cars because of the weather,” he said, but others had photos of their vehicles.
Pictures of all the vehicles will be submitted to Mann, who will decide which ones he’d like in the film, Bachrach said.
The movie is a screen adaptation of Bryan Burrough’s 2004 book “Public Enemies: America’s Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-34.”
It describes the FBI’s transformation when confronted with crime sprees of Dillinger, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd and Lester “Baby Face Nelson” Gillis.
Note: Bachrach said those going to Miller Park should go to the Hot Corner entrance near Friday’s restaurant. Those who can’t attend can e-mail Bachrach at pechicago@gmail.com or call him at 1-312-287-7950.
