Arts & Entertainment

'Freaky Deaky' Filming in Oakland Township 'For a Few Days'

The Elmore Leonard film is set in Detroit and stars Christian Slater.

Just a few weeks after , the cast and crew of the film Freaky Deaky are back, this time setting up base camp at at Adams and Silverbell roads.

The film is based on a 1988 novel set in the '60s and '70s and based in Detroit.

On Thursday morning, a set manager confirmed they are filming in the area "for a few days," but did not elaborate beyond that. Crew members were seen taking equipment into the church Thursday morning.

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Crew members were also spotted setting up at the gated entrance to a private home nearby.

The film is under the direction of Charlie Matthau, who it would be made entirely in Michigan, where Leonard lives.

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"We originally changed the locale to L.A., but I knew it wouldn't be as good as if it were set in Detroit," Matthau said in a statement reported on Birmingham Patch during the Elmore Leonard Film Festival in November.

"Freaky Deaky can turn into a monument in Detroit, just like Woody Allen's Manhattan is for New York … If ever there was a film for Detroit, it's Freaky Deaky."

Last summer, Demi Moore and the cast of A Reasonable Bunch filmed at a home in Oakland Township and also spent several consecutive days filming in downtown Rochester.


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