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A high-profile series with a big time budget and Hollywood stars is looking at filming in the Levittown area.
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Apple TV+ episodic crime drama series “Sinking Spring” has had crew members looking for shooting locations in Bristol Borough and Bristol Township, two sources with knowledge told of the production LevittownNow.com.
The sources did either not know or detail the specific locations the production was eyeing. However, both were confident the area would be used for the series.
The multi-million dollar production will bring with it trucks, trailers, electrical equipment, and a hoard of crew.
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Filming for series will close Bedminster Road (Route 113) in Bedminster and Tinicum townships in Upper Bucks County from Tuesday, February 14 through Saturday, February 18, and Tuesday, February 21 through Thursday, February 23 for shooting, an industry source confirmed. PennDOT did not release the name of the production, but noted an Apple Studios LLC-produced series will be filming there.
“Sinking Spring,” which is going by the working title “Catamount,” is set to film in the Philadelphia region from February through July, sources said.
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There have been rumblings that additional locations in Bucks County were being looked at, but nothing was confirmed by sources outside of the Levittown-area location scouting and Upper Bucks County filming location.
LevittownNow.com was unable to reach a spokesperson for production company Scott Free Productions, and an Apple TV+ spokesperson said they had nothing to share at the moment.
The new Ridley Scott-directed streaming series is based on the book “Dope Thief” by Dennis Tafoya.
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The series “follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard,” according to the official logline reported on by entertainment industry trade publication Variety.
The eight-episode series is set to star Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Mando, Kate Mulgrew, and Marin Ireland.
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In 2005, Bristol Township was home to filming of M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Lady in the Water.” The film used the now-demolished 3M plant and a large 500,000-gallon water tank that once sat off Green Lane across from the the Bloomsdale-Fleetwing section to shoot the movie that stared Paul Giamatti and Bryce Dallas Howard.
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