WTI Magazine #23    2014 Mar, 28
Author : Simone doc Bracci      Translation by:

Gone are the years when Cinecittà enthroned at the center of Italy as the focal point of European cinema, ideal locations and sets for the big American productions and for those of the Italian system that gave space and freedom of movement to great authors, now relegated to the memory of our past. Abroad they still remind us for those moments, glories of the past that at the present time are unlikely to come back, with the exception of some specific cases.

One of these is the return to outdoors shooting, using our territory as a natural set, with less work for carpenters and more for people from special effects and set designers, who somehow carry the Made in Italy brand on the screens across the world. From Sicily to Rome, from Tuscany to Valle d'Aosta, every place is useful and usable, especially if low-cost and with the opportunity of creating jobs: either our skilled and our unskilled professionals.

Just a few weeks ago, in Italy has been given the go ahead for the shooting of the film "Hope Lost" by David Petrucci, produced by Andrea Iervolino and Cosetta Turco, in collaboration with Monika Bacardi and the economic contribution of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture. The cast? Danny "Machete" Trejo and Mischa "OC" Barton, recognized actors in Hollywood landscape. However, the latest work in order of time is a more than probable worldwide (and intergalactic) blockbuster.

It is "The Avengers: Age of Ultron", the sequel of the Marvel movie dedicated to the Avengers, whose crew has landed in the city of Aosta in order to recreate the city of Novi Grad. Signs change, car and bus overturned, explosions, actors suit with sensors and fake snow on sidewalks: the action in the center of the story, with many scenes filmed by actor Jeremy Renner, who plays Hawkeye.

Shooting is scheduled for a week between the historic towns of Pont-Saint-Martin, Verrès and the medieval Donnas: so some sequences in The Avengers second chapter will show different beautiful places of Italy, either reconstructed or dummy, but in some way useful to the cause and source of income. You have to start from somewhere.