The Newton resident says watching crew members work they numbered around 80 reminded him of an ant colony with each member assigned to a specific task.Īpart from the greener lawn, the inn property looked just as it did before the crew arrived, according to LeBlanc. No problem, the crew simply painted the lawn green. He adds that shooting "Ghosts" in April posed "greenery issues" for the filmmakers as the lawn at the time was seasonally brownish in color.
GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST LOCATION MOVIE
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 Have you seen this film? We would love to see your review.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." Shortly after a drunken speech about the dangers of love, Connor is visited by the ghost of Lothario uncle Wayne, told that he will be visited by ghosts representing his past, present, and future girlfriends intent on teaching him an important lesson. A womanizer attending his brother's wedding is haunted by ghosts representing his past, present, and future girlfriends.Ĭonnor Mead is a handsome fashion photographer with an insatiable taste for casual, fly-by-night sex, traveling to his brother's wedding in an attempt to dissuade him from getting married.
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