![]() He adds that shooting "Ghosts" in April posed "greenery issues" for the filmmakers as the lawn at the time was seasonally brownish in color. Without providing a specific amount, LeBlanc described the inn's compensation for each movie as being "in the thousands." A comedy, the film stars Ricky Gervais, Rob Lowe and, as coincidence would have it, Garner. ![]() In May, the film was known as "This Side of the Truth." It's now called "The Invention of Lying" and is scheduled to be released in September. Interestingly, only a few weeks after "Ghosts" finished shooting, the chapel was used again for a movie location. He says that honor belongs to "HouseSitter," a 1992 movie starring Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn. LeBlanc notes that "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" isn't the first movie to use the Martha-Mary Chapel as a film site. The Cambridge-raised actor married Garner in 2005. "She rolled down the window and said, 'Good morning,' to us with a big smile," he remembers.Īccording to the Internet Movie Database, Ben Affleck was originally attached to play the lead back in 2003 before the film got sidetracked and "Gigli" haunted Affleck's career. Garner arrived on the set in a Cadillac Escalade, according to LeBlanc. "He said, 'If I let you take a picture, everyone will want a picture,' but he let her friend take it anyway," says LeBlanc. LeBlanc says the scene where McConaughey leaves the woods and walks to the chapel was "shot around 15 times." While public access to the stars was limited, LeBlanc says a member of the inn's waitstaff approached McConaughey and asked if he would pose for a picture with her. It's one of only six non-denominational chapels in the United States. The building takes its name from the mothers of Ford and his wife Clara Martha Bryant and Mary Litogot Ford. The first wedding celebrated in the chapel took place in 1941. Wood for the chapel came from trees felled by the Hurricane of 1938. Located on a knoll surrounded by white pines, the white chapel was built by boys from the Wayside Inn Boys' School run by Henry Ford when he owned the property. "He grew up in Framingham so when he founded out a chapel was needed for the film he knew the Martha-Mary Chapel would be perfect," says LeBlanc. The chapel site was proposed by film scout Mark Fitzgerald. "Once they got here, they wanted us out of the way," recalls LeBlanc, who was given a radio by the production crew to provide him with updates. The crew from New Line Cinema arrived early in the morning last April and stayed late into the night, according to Guy LeBlanc, Wayside Inn's museum services coordinator. He exit the woods with the Ghost of Girlfriends Future played by Olga Maliouk. The movie, which opens Friday, May 1, and also stars Jennifer Garner, Michael Douglas and Breckin Meyer, offers a twist on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" with McConaughey playing a bachelor who gets haunted by the ghosts of his former girlfriends. "I've been in there," they may boast.Ī wedding scene in the romantic comedy takes place in the famous chapel while an exterior shot shows Matthew McConaughey, one of the film's stars, emerging from nearby woods. "I've seen that place," they might proclaim. PHOTOS: A look back at last year's "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" filming In conclusion, it is entertaining and enjoyable but not for a movie theater, please wait for it until it is on DVD.Moviegoers familiar with the Martha-Mary Chapel at Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury may be tempted to speak up if they see the film "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past." And I like the soundtrack, the 80's music is very cool. But not everything is bad, for example, the locations are great, the landscapes are beautiful. The cast is good, the performances not so much, Matthew McConaughey is good but unfortunately he is repeating the same role over and over and its beginning to bore, Michael Douglas is great and so funny but I think he is being wasted with so little participation and Jennifer Garner is convincing enough in her role as Jenny Perotti. The idea of a story like this was interesting but they turn it to a very corny movie with a poor plot. Its a romantic comedy that can take you away a few laughs. A weird adaptation to Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, I don't know if he'll be pleased to see what these people did to his novel. Ghosts of Girlfriends past is the typical movie about a man in love with his all-time girl friend but he can't accept it and becomes the man that scores with all the women and dumps them the day after.
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