roughly 162 film extras from the Toledo area who were chosen by a casting agency to play the roles of 1970s-era train travelers. Train equipment to be used for the scene has been parked on a track near the depot for several days, and Ms. Rosner said a vintage 1970s-era locomotive was transported there from West Virginia for Wednesday’s filming — a process that took three weeks.
Typically such an undertaking wouldn’t occur to bring the vintage train, along with passenger and baggage cars such a long distance, but she said Otto Director Marc Forster insisted on doing so after seeing the Toledo train station, which appears largely as it did during the 1970s. Ms. Rosner said filming on Wednesday will be used for two flashback scenes in the movie.
“The director loves the train station,” she said. “The train station is beautiful. We think it’s really authentic, and it’s just got so much to offer and it fits really well with our period trains that we’re pulling in.”
The crew spent Tuesday finishing filming in Cleveland and has previously been shooting scenes for Otto in the Pittsburgh area since mid-February.
plans are for the film to be released in December.
The movie is a film adaptation of the Swedish novel A Man Called Ove about a bitter widower whose life changes after he befriends a mixed-race couple and their two young daughters who move into the neighborhood.
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