Brooklyn is ready for its close-up.
The Borough of Kings won’t be on the marquee when “The Drop” opens on Friday, but the borough is all over the gritty crime drama.
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It’s one of several Brooklyn-set, Brooklyn-shot movies set to open in theaters in the coming weeks — including the Liam Neeson thriller, “A Walk Through the Tombstones” (Sept. 19), and the Bill Murray comedy “St. Vincent” (Oct. 24).
If it’s hard to tell exactly which neighborhoods provide the setting for “The Drop,” that’s because director Michael Roskam opted for a “mythological” version of Brooklyn — shooting in Windsor Terrace, Fort Greene, Marine Park, Bedford-Stuyvesant and Sheepshead Bay.
“We were diving into Brooklyn’s communities and swallowing it and breathing it as much (as we could,)” said Roskam.
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“I think I’ve seen every single bar in Brooklyn,” he added. “…I had a crash course in what the place is about.”
How many does he remember?
“Probably one,” he quipped.
Roskam swears those visits were strictly research for his work in the compact thriller, written by “Mystic River” author Dennis Lehane.
Roskam, who hails from Belgium, wanted to make sure he was prepared for his first American film. So even before cameras started rolling, he spent a month driving the streets of Brooklyn, parking only long enough to visit an estimated 200 bars to get a feel for the local culture.
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“My car was my office and I would meet people on the road for meetings while I was driving,” says Roskam.
“The Drop” stars Tom Hardy as a Brooklyn bartender who works in a pub that doubles as a front for a money laundering operation overseen by his cousin Marv (the late, great James Gandolfini).
The four weeks on location were a dream come true for “The Drop” star Noomi Rapace, who grew up in Sweden captivated by the New York City she watched in films.
“I remember that me and (director) Michael Roskam would sometimes be walking around at lunch or on a Saturday or Sunday, and it would feel like we were dreaming or pretending that I’m an actor doing a film here,” the actress told the Daily News. “We were walking around like two kids going, ‘Pinch me, pinch me, am I actually doing a film here?’”
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