Movie filmming to close local road
Part of the Mon/Fayette Expressway will be closed Sunday and Monday because of a movie being filmed in Fayette County. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission said the southbound lanes of the expressway between Brownsville and Uniontown will close to traffic for as long as 24 hours, starting at 11 p.m. Sunday and running 11 p.m. Monday. Traffic will be detoured onto Route 40 east from Redstone Way toward Uniontown. Northbound lanes will remain open.
The closure is being called to accommodate Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., which is filming on Turnpike Commission property for an upcoming movie titled “The Next Three Days.”
The plot of the film, according to the Internet Movie Database, an online collection of movie information, involves a married couple whose life turns upside down after the wife is accused of murder.
Paul Haggis is directing the movie. Haggis is an award-winning filmmaker who wrote “Million Dollar Baby,” directed by Clint Eastwood, and wrote and directed “Crash.”
The film is scheduled to open in theaters in 2011. The movie is said to star Olivia Wilde and Russell Crowe, according to the online database.
State police, local fire and emergency medical departments and turnpike maintenance and safety personnel will be providing traffic control and security during the closures.