Previously we reported that “The story of Bonnie and Clyde” would be headed to Alexandria, LA, well now the production has added Joplin, MO to its filming locations too.
According to the IMBD website the movie portraits the career of the infamous and notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang. As previously reported, the film will feature Hilary Duff and Kevin Zegers.
The movie is scheduled to begin pre-production in late April and will be filming in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, and now Joplin, MO has been added as well.
Filmmaker Tonya S. Holly visited Joplin last weekend scouting for locations to film and to pick up background information on the Depression-era outlaws that was put together by the Joplin Museum Complex.
“We look forward for production to begin on ‘The Story of Bonnie and Clyde,’ and we are excited to look for talent from Joplin and its surrounding areas to appear in the film,” said Holly, who wrote the original screenplay and will direct and produce the movie.
Holly began working on the project after reading old newspaper articles about the gangster pair in an abandoned house on her family’s property.
According to Tonya S. Holly the movie is a new adaptation of the story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow rather than a remake of the 1967 classic film starring Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty.
It seems as if the movie has been slated for a November 2011 release date, but we will keep you posted on any possible changes.
