Serving the Loop and Near North neighborhoods of downtown Chicago
Marina City does its own stunts in film to be released next week

June 15, 2008 – A special effects sequence in the Universal Pictures action film “Wanted” will feature a close-up of Marina City. Scheduled for release on June 27, the second trailer for the film shows the roof and upper floors of the west residential tower as a bullet flies across the north Loop into the foreground.

Wanted

(Click on image to view larger version)

Starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, and Angelina Jolie, Wanted is “the tale of one overlooked nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice,” according to the film’s web site. Internet Movie Database says the film is about a young man who finds out his long lost father is an assassin. When his father is murdered, “the son is recruited into his father’s old organization and trained by a man named Sloan (played by Morgan Freeman) to follow in his dad’s footsteps.”

The film shot in the north Loop last year.

 Watch trailer

 Wanted web site

Appellate court decision ends 19-year dispute at Palmolive Building
Appellate court decision ends 19-year dispute at Palmolive Building
Byrne’s ‘Theater of the Mind’ extends at Reid Murdoch Building
Byrne’s ‘Theater of the Mind’ extends at Reid Murdoch Building
Remembering Sam Sianis: The Billy Goat proprietor who sponsored Chicago’s top softball dynasty
Remembering Sam Sianis: The Billy Goat proprietor who sponsored Chicago’s top softball dynasty
Surviving ‘Condoland’: New state bills aim to protect HOA owners from board abuse
Surviving ‘Condoland’: New state bills aim to protect HOA owners from board abuse
Tech boondoggle plugs Cook County’s soaring tax refund pipeline
Tech boondoggle plugs Cook County’s soaring tax refund pipeline
Legal filings clarify key positions in federal suit over Riverwalk bidding
Legal filings clarify key positions in federal suit over Riverwalk bidding
‘Obamaville’ battle: New tenant laws highlight landlord vs. city hall divide
‘Obamaville’ battle: New tenant laws highlight landlord vs. city hall divide
Blue period, red tape: The corporate policing of a Chicago treasure
Blue period, red tape: The corporate policing of a Chicago treasure
Loop sees $848 million Q1 investment as retail and pedestrian activity climb
Loop sees $848 million Q1 investment as retail and pedestrian activity climb
Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally return to Chicago for Goodman musical about caveman
Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally return to Chicago for Goodman musical about caveman
ChicagoFilming.com