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'Public Enemies' Filmmakers Search For More '30s-Era Vehicles

Vehicle Call Held In Madison Last Weekend

UPDATED: 11:55 am CST January 30, 2008

There's another casting call set for the movie "Public Enemies," but for period vehicles not actors.

Filmmakers want people with antique cars, trucks and buses from 1930 to 1935 to bring them, or pictures of them, to Milwaukee's Miller Park on Sunday, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

The vehicles could be chosen for use in the film that will star Johnny Depp as Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger, who was killed by FBI agents in Chicago in 1934.

Filming is expected to start in March. Director Michael Mann and various representatives have been scouting locations throughout the state. It's not known which ones will be used.

Universal Studios applied with the state Department of Commerce for the state's recently enacted financial incentives to shoot major parts of the movie in Wisconsin, but the deal hasn't been finalized.

Howard Bachrach, who's supervising the vehicle search for the movie, said that 45 people turned out for a vehicle call in Madison last Sunday, although nearly all just brought pictures of their vehicles.

He said that pictures of all the vehicles will be submitted to Mann, who will decide which ones he'd like in the film.

Bachrach said that those going to Miller Park should go to the Hot Corner entrance near Friday's restaurant. Those who can't attend can also e-mail Bachrach at pechicago@gmail.com or call him at 1-312-287-7950.




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