The new Kevin James movie, entitled zookeeper, is being filmed in Franklin Park in Boston, just up the street from my house.
Apparently they decided they needed a gorilla cage with a certain look, so outside the zoo, on the path where I walk my dog, they built one.
(i'm attaching photos of the set they built, but since I'm doing this from my phone, I don't know where in the post they will end up)
Anyway, the set was built over the course of three weeks. There was a crane and a fake waterfall involved. And a lot of fake rocks, trees, and slate. (check out the photos-- the gorilla sign was really made of concrete-- everything else was fake.)
About 30 workers built this set, some of them obviously craftsmen with an amazing ability to construct temporary things that look like other, more permanent things.
There was 24-hour security on the set for the entire time.
This set had to have cost $100,000 dollars. If you've ever had work done on your house, you can imagine the expense of employing 30 workers every day for 3 1/2 weeks.
And they shot on this set for 3 hours. From 9 to 12 one morning last week.
The last photo is the site as it looked yesterday.
Draw your own conclusions, but I was told this movie has a 20 million dollar budget, which makes it a small movie.
