Mark Wahlberg to Film at Gillette Studios

Infinite directed by Antoine Fuqua to be released next year

Mark Wahlberg in Infinite (Imdb.com)

Mark Wahlberg is to film scenes for Infinite (2020) at Gillette Building Studios.

The Gillette building has hosted major productions such as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Alien: Covenant, Bohemian Rhapsody and 24: Live Another Day.

Locate Productions’ Eddie Standish cites the building’s exclusivity as one of its key attractions. “[The producers] have control,” he says, “as there is no other production in the site at the same time. It is not a studio; it is more of a location that can be used as a film space and a production space.”

While the 10-acre Gillette site may not offer the facilities found at the likes of Pinewood Shepperton, productions can control everything at the site, from the phone lines to the cleaning. “That makes it much more cost effective,” says Standish.

Filming has been underway for weeks on Paramount Pictures’ Infinite directed by Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), a genre feature film based on the novel The Reincarnationist Papers by D. Eric Maikranz.

It stars Mark Wahlberg in the lead role of Evan Michaels, who replaced Chris Evans after the Captain America actor exited.

The novel revolves around Evan Michaels, a man who was haunted by memories of two past lives and stumbles upon a centuries-old secret society of similar individuals who make up the Cognomina (aka The Infinite), a secret society of people who possess total recall of their past lives and whose members have been agents of change throughout history. He seeks to join their ranks.

Haunted by memories of two past lives, a troubled young man struggles to survive on LA’s seamy underbelly.  Recounted in three notebooks, Evan Michaels details the loneliness of his unique existence, his discovery of another like him and his eventual acceptance into the secret Cognomina.

The supporting cast includes Chiwetel Ejiofor (Doctor Strange, 12 Years A Slave), Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner, American Assassin), Sophie Cookson (Kingsman: The Secret Service), Jason Mantzoukas (John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum), Rupert Friend (The French Dispatch, The Death of Stalin), Tom Hughes (Cemetary Junction, Victoria), Wallis Day (Krypton), and Toby Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom).

October 25, 2019