The Israeli director Alma Harel (“Honey Child”) set out to make a suspense drama with Natalie Portman in Baltimore for Apple TV – but found herself in a scene that is more reminiscent of an episode of “The Undercover”, or in other words, the series that everyone thinks of when they say the words “Suspense drama in Baltimore” . According to Baltimore police, a group of local drug dealers disrupted local filming on the west side of downtown last Friday, threatening to shoot crew members on set if they didn’t stop filming. The local criminals said that “nothing will happen if they are paid” and tried to extort $50,000 from the production – which the production refused to pay. Instead, filming has stopped and will resume at an undisclosed time and location (and perhaps it’s best to remain undisclosed for the foreseeable future).
Harrell’s series, “The Lady in the Lake” (based on a novel by Laura Lippman), in which Portman also stars Moses Ingram (“The Queen’s Gambit”), Mikey Madison (“Good Things”) and Brett Gelman (“Stranger Things”, “Flybag”), deals with an unsolved murder in Baltimore in the 1960s, and a housewife who reinvents herself as an investigative journalist and sets out to solve it – which puts her on a collision course with a local social activist.
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