The Dark Fields: Bradley Cooper Film Turns Philly Into NYC

April 12, 2010 in Featured,Movies,Philadelphia with 22 Comments

Bradley Cooper’s new film, The Dark Fields, is currently filming here in Philadelphia… and earlier today, they transformed 19th and Market into 52nd and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. Reader Erik B. emailed in some photos…

Walking along Market Street at 19th on my lunch break I somehow ended up at 52nd and 6th Avenue in Manhattan. After some investigation, I learned that I was still in fact in Philadelphia, but near the set of the movie The Dark Fields. They temporarily transformed our great City into the Big Apple.

Erik saw Philadelphia born Bradley Cooper being whisked off the set into a car immediately after snapping these pictures. Have a look!

About Eric: Eric spends most of his time writing, taking pictures, reading, and hanging out with his (somewhat famous) chinchilla Mittens and bunny Rory. He teaches writing and literature at some local Philadelphia colleges and works in publishing. He knows absolutely nothing about sports, and is proud of it.

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22 Responses to “The Dark Fields: Bradley Cooper Film Turns Philly Into NYC”

  1. CW April 12, 2010 at 5:37 pm #

    Based on their careful attention to detail, I’m sure this film will be a huge hit

  2. Mark Burstiner April 12, 2010 at 5:45 pm #

    Please tell me you’re joking. That doesn’t look a damn thing like Rock Center or even the stop it’s supposed to be. Bleck. Try again plz.

  3. Dan Hafner April 12, 2010 at 7:14 pm #

    ahhh, the Sreets of New York!

  4. Javier April 12, 2010 at 9:59 pm #

    I walked past the set this morning. I guess we really are becoming the 6th borough :-/

  5. jdrumz321 April 13, 2010 at 3:05 pm #

    Why the hell couldnt they just make the movie take place in Philly…if they’re filming it in Philly?!

  6. xraymom April 14, 2010 at 8:57 am #

    OMG, the subway sign is spelled wrong. The misspelled “Street”!

  7. xraymom April 14, 2010 at 9:06 am #

    Now I just made a typo!!!!

  8. chris April 15, 2010 at 11:01 pm #

    ..just for the record, we agree that it’s lame that some dudes put signs up to try to pass center city as the 67th ward, right? …like, we’re not excited by this, we think it’s bad, right, geekadelphia?
    -cgw

  9. Tim Quirino April 16, 2010 at 10:35 am #

    I agree, it’s lame.

    Horrible attention to detail – it’s not even Helvetica, and it’s spelled wrong

  10. bebe blazfemi April 19, 2010 at 7:32 pm #

    They’re setting up in MY building (22 S. Front Condominiums, a 3 year old condo that’s in the center of the 2 block radius where about half a dozen or more shootings/murders have happened in the past year or so…) for a shoot tomorrow sometime with Bradley Cooper and then with De Niro on Letitia St around/near my building on Wednesday the 21st.

  11. katie April 22, 2010 at 11:53 pm #

    Today they turned my school, John W Hallahan on Wood St. into 11th Precinct, a police station. It looked pretty realistic though. And I got to meet Bradley Cooper ;D

  12. jasmine May 12, 2010 at 10:11 pm #

    First of all do not hate on us Philadelphians because we’ve always been popular with films and if they want to chanqe us into NYC then so be it. I walk pass a scene every sinqle day lol and it’s cool. I’m qonna have to qet my actinq career on the move. Bradley Cooper’s hot and if I’d ever meet him while walkinq down Market please be aware that will take him from Renee UGLY Zellweqqer or however u spell her name lol..and to Chris and Tim please don’t hate because you know when this movie debuts you two will be the first ones to see it :D

  13. Tim Q May 14, 2010 at 1:47 am #

    @ Jasmine I’m not saying that shooting a movie is lame at all — I love seeing movies getting filmed in the city I live in — I was just commenting on how the actual attention to detail could have been better….or you know… spelled right :)

  14. Shannon July 2, 2010 at 12:14 am #

    Okay, so you all are soooo wrong. That actually looks just like Rockefeller Center AND it says ‘STREETS’ because Rockefeller Center is 47th through 50th street, which is more than one street,which is the reason they use the plural. So all of you people who think you are so smart correcting other people better check yourselves because you are all stupid!

  15. katie July 2, 2010 at 11:57 am #

    no shannon, haha it says “SREETS” not “STREETS” they had a typo :)

  16. Readthebook October 19, 2010 at 7:12 pm #

    It doesn’t really matter how accurate they make Philly look like NYC since the geography of the story won’t be the heart of the movie. I highly suggest reading the book first – I couldn’t put it down.

  17. Donna Cregg October 29, 2010 at 4:40 pm #

    That’s really cool that you got to see them actually filming the movie. While I wait, I’m definitely going to check out some other action movies on dvd. Yesterday I watched Attack on Darfur and it was really well done. The action scenes were excellent and the movie had a great humanitarian message. It was very opening regarding the current situation in Darfur and I encourage everyone to see it. http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/movieDetails/492994

  18. ryan March 8, 2011 at 5:00 pm #

    “Bizarrely enough, I think the “Sreets” and the not-quite-Helvetica font are actually deliberate. You would need to get MTA permission to use their copyrighted logotype.”

    That’s what I would have said if I couldn’t see a clear MTA logo in one of the other pictures.

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