As we’ve reported, Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid are expected to begin filming the Untitled Bahrani Farm Film in Dekalb, IL any day now, but we’ve just learned they will spend at least one day filming in Iowa too.
Both actors are expected to take part in a scene filming at the Iowa Speedway on July 16. In the movie Efron plays an aspiring professional racecar driver in Iowa and Quaid plays his father.
The scenes will be shot before the Prairie Meadows ARCA Series Stock Car and Coco-Cola 200 races and will include Efron walking across the pre-race stage, Quaid cheering from the stand, and racing footage from the Prairie Meadows 200.
If you spot the Untitled Bahrani Farm Film filming in Iowa or around Dekalb, IL in the next few weeks, let us know via email at olv@onlocationvacations.com! The shoot is expected to last about a month.
UPDATE: If you buy tickets online for the Prairie Meadows ARCA Series you will be entered to win an opportunity to appear as an extra in the scene!
[Thanks to Jeremy & Pippa]
Any info on extra casting?
I live in DeKalk IL, and I know where he will be filming, it’s just a few blocks from my house. I will be keeping a look out for him. It’s my dream to meet him. <3
Anyways, they will be doing some filming outside of Malta (small town next to DeKalb).
thanks ashley! can you let us know when they start filming around your house? thanks!
They’re already in DeKalb. According to the rumor-mill, they are staying in a hotel in Sycamore (small city just north of DeKalb) and were spotted eating at the restaurant Cabana Charley’s, which is right by the hotel, on Tuesday. Someone also said they saw them at Dairy Queen yesterday.
Someone told me he was at the Steak and Shake yesterday.
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so he is for sure in dekalb now? i know hes going to iowa tomorrow. my grandma and i are driving to dekalb today in hopes of seeing him
one of my brothers friends brothers was going to work on the set …but didnt take the job so im trying to see if i can juice anything out of him on zac’s location..once again keeep yaaa posted!!
He is Newton, IA right now at the Iowa Speedway for the races tomorrow which they are going to be filming at.
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hey ok, so i live on n.i.u campus and my mom works at the sycomore park dist. so i have heard that they have had to call the cops often while zac was staying at the country club inn and suites so hes not there any more but i will tell you guys where he is staying when i find out….he has been to ollies and target and then the places that people have already said..but including the walgreens rightnext the hotle he was staying at so thats all i know but ill keep ya posted!!! 🙂
They were filming on Sanderson Rd in Leland yesterday (July 24th). I live on Sanderson , it is a gravel road. My husband drove down to check it out and saw “a kid playing basketball and an orange stock car in the shed.” My guess is that it was Zach. The cop told my husband it was an “untitled film.” We had a ton of traffic on our road which was not normal. They were filming well past 10 pm. Not sure if they will be back, but some of the equiptment is still there. Sanderson Rd is off of Leland Rd which is just North of the town of Leland.
thanks for the details, please let us know if you spot them again!
Are they still there today?