Film extras from Metro Detroit, MSU and elsewhere will be paid to hang around a pretend-party late next week in East Lansing, preparatory work suggests.
What's confirmed is that a nighttime shoot Oct. 16-17 involves so many background hangers-on that a Clawson talent agency is recruiting people willing to spend eight hours on a set for $65 and a meal. They don't acknowledge it's for "Batman v Superman," but no other possibility has surfaced and Greg Monahan of The State News campus paper reports that a crew member confirms the wide belief:
“Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” will be filming at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum on the north side of MSU’s campus the week of October 13. This fact was confirmed by a source close to the production of the film who declined to be named because they were not yet authorized to speak.
The museum says it "will be fully closed to the public starting October 13, and will open its doors again on October 21. Ann Pierret of WILX, a Lansing TV station, reports that "green walls are being put up, drills are running and stacks of wood are ready to cut" at the campus site.
She shares this speculation from a local superheroes fan, Dylan Oshier::
"The Broad Art Museum has a very cool sci-fi look to it. I can definitely see a billionaire like Lex Luther working there." . . .
We've also been told movie producers have exclusively asked employees of the Douglas J Aveda Salon in Okemos to do hair for a high society ballroom scene.
At the Lansing State Journal, Justin A. Hinkley rounds up this strong evidence:
- Director Zack Snyder scouted the Broad in January and was photographed there.
- There's "social media chatter about a construction worker who says he is part of the crew setting up for Batman filming."
- "A recent photo on Facebook shows a man at the Broad wearing a T-shirt from [a film crafts union local] based in North Hollywood, Calif."
-- Alan Stamm
