Monday, March 27, 2000
Tristate lands role in major motion picture
BY MARGARET A. McGURK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
After a month of stop-and-go signals, Traffic has a green light.
Director Steven Soderbergh will bring the production to Cincinnati for more than three weeks beginning in late May, according to Lori Holladay, director of the Greater Cincinnati Northern Kentucky Film Commission.
Michael Douglas is set to star in the thriller about a conservative judge turned drug czar who learns his daughter is an addict. Mr. Douglas' fiancee,Catherine Zeta-Jones, is also signed to star in the movie, but not in segments to be filmed here.
Ms. Holladay said the production will film at locations in downtown Cincinnati, Indian Hill, Hyde Park and Over-the-Rhine, plus two days in Columbus. She said the script has been adapted to make specific reference to Cincinnati. The movie also will be shot in Texas, California and Washington, D.C.
Ms. Holladay said she was unsure of the total budget for the film, but that it could be as much as $60 million. “We estimated before that at least $3 million would be spent here,” she said.
The movie will spend more time shootiing in Cincinnati than any production since Milk Money in 1993. Traffic will use local crew and about 700 extras, Ms. Holladay said. No details are available on how or when extras will be cast.
She said the film company first considered using Cincinnati on the recommendation of location manager Ken Lavett, who previously worked here on An Innocent Man, and assistant director Greg Jacobs, who worked here on City of Hope and Little Man Tate.
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