Award-winning actor Michael Fasbender (of X-Men fame), Golden Globes winner and Oscar nominee director David Fincher (Gone Girl) and crew will be at Hotel Baker in St. Charles this week to continue filming for the upcoming Netflix noir thriller “The Killer.”
The choice of the Hotel Baker as a venue in the film was announced in late January.
The City of St. Charles announced various traffic and parking restrictions to accommodate the filming.
- Thursday, March 10 and Friday, March 11, Main Street between 5th Avenue and 3rd Street will be closed to all vehicular traffic starting at 5 p.m. and will not be reopened until 6 a.m. the following day.
- Police Officers and members of St. Charles Emergency Management Agency (EMA) will be onsite to assist motorists around the detour each night.
- Drivers are encouraged to avoid downtown and use alternate routes and bridges to cross the river unless specifically visiting downtown.
- Please note: All area restaurants and businesses will remain open and welcome patrons during the filming.
- The film production will begin Thursday, March 10 and be completed March 18th; however, the production crew will be present in St. Charles beginning Monday, March 7.
Parking restrictions will also be in place during filming:
- All on-street parking is prohibited on Main Street (both the north and south side) between the Main Street Bridge and 4th Avenue beginning Thursday, March 10 until the end of the St. Patrick’s Day parade on Saturday, March 12.
- All on-street parking on Riverside Avenue between State Avenue and Walnut Avenue is prohibited on Thursday, March 10 and Friday, March 11. These spaces will reopen Saturday, March 12 at 6 a.m.
- The City’s south parking lot at the Municipal Center (“Checkerboard Lot”) will be closed Thursday, March 10 at 5 a.m. and will reopen after the parade on Saturday, March 12.
- The City “Lot E,” located at the southeast corner of Routes 64 and 31, will be closed Thursday, March 10 at 5 a.m. and will reopen Saturday, March 12 at 6 a.m.
- Parking along the Main St. Bridge will reopen Monday, March 14 and Tuesday, March 15, but will close again March 16 until March 18. All other parking spaces on Main Street will remain open.
- Beginning Monday, March 7 and continuing through Friday, March 18, the site of the former Police Department, City lot “P”, as well as the 5th level of the west side parking deck will be closed to parking for the duration of the film crew being present in St. Charles.
Here’s the movie’s official logline:
A man solitary and cold, methodical and unencumbered by scruples or regrets, the killer waits in the shadows, watching for his next target. And yet the longer he waits, the more he thinks he’s losing his mind, if not his cool. A brutal, bloody and stylish noir story of a professional assassin lost in a world without a moral compass, this is a case study of a man alone, armed to the teeth and slowly losing his mind.
The release date of the film has not yet been set.
