fbpx
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
    • Get Home Delivery
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
    • Advertise
    • Customer Support
    • Submit A News Tip
    • Where’s My Paper?
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial
Hudson Valley One
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Log In
No Result
View All Result
Hudson Valley One
No Result
View All Result

Avengers: Endgame shot scenes in Ulster, Dutchess

by Frances Marion Platt
April 29, 2019
in Stage & Screen
3
Avengers: Endgame shot scenes in Ulster, Dutchess

(Marvel Studios)

(Marvel Studios)

The avidly anticipated culmination of the biggest cinematic franchise (22 feature films) of the Marvel Comics Universe, Avengers: Endgame, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, officially opens on Friday, April 26. I can’t yet vouch for it, but spoiler-free early reviews trickling out after Monday’s world premiere in Hollywood uniformly gush with praise for Endgame’s ample emotional moments, Avengers-worthy humor and thoroughly satisfying payoff of an ending.

Let’s say you’re not already burning to know if and how the surviving Avengers will manage to reverse some of the harm (killing half of the universe’s sentient beings with a snap of his magic-gauntleted fingers) wrought by big baddie Thanos at the end of last year’s Avengers: Infinity War. Would it motivate you at all to know that some of the epic footage (all shot in IMAX, by the way) was gleaned right here in the Hudson Valley?

Details are sketchy; but “additional” shoots took place in Ulster and Dutchess Counties in June 2018, five months after the official wrap of primary filming, which had mostly taken place in and around Atlanta. Per IMDb, at least four location assistants were focused on New York State. Nothing in the main trailer for the movie leaps out as recognizable or especially evocative of upstate locations, with the possible exception of the farmhouse where the second-tier Avenger Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) was last seen in retirement from SHIELD, married and raising kids, in Captain America: Civil War (2016).

Mills Mansion in Staatsburgh (photo by Julie O’Connor)

Our savviest local source for clues is Hudson Valley Film Commission (HVFC) director Laurent Rejto, much of whose work revolves around making connections between movie producers and places, people and things they need to get their scenes shot. Sworn to secrecy during the production process, when the code name for Endgame was “Mary Lou,” Rejto is just now beginning to share some tidbits. The one location that he has been willing to identify specifically is the Mills Mansion estate in Staatsburg, in northern Dutchess County. Ready to Serve Catering provided food at one or more locations, and 40 crew members were housed at the Best Western in Kingston, he reveals.

“Two days of production focused on plates, and included air, land and river filming in digital IMAX,” reports HVFC. In filmmaking parlance, a “plate” is a background shot, empty of actors or props, lit the same way as the scene that will be ultimately constructed. It might be incorporated into a scene using actors filmed against a greenscreen in a studio, or with CGI effects in the foreground, such as a superhero’s super-vehicle, or simply used for reference.

So when you get out to see Avengers: Endgame, in between all your cheering and laughing and weeping, keep one eye out for scenes that look like they might have been captured close to home.


4/29 editor’s update:

After seeing the film, Fran reports: “You can make out the Esopus Meadows Lighthouse in the distance in one of the final scenes. Staatsburg site unrecognizable for all the big battle effects.”

A subsequent release from the Hudson Valley Film Commission includes more details about the location:

On March of 2018,  the film commission was contacted by a location manager for Marvel regarding a feature film going by the name MARY LOU PART 2. We were told up front that it was a sequel for AVENGER: INFINITY WAR, but asked to keep the info top secret. Our task was to find lodging, and to refer local crew and vendors, including catering, and boat vendors.

We were also asked to find a wide open field with hills and terrain for the “battlefield.” We recommended about eight properties. The VFX Team at Marvel ended up falling in love with the Staatsburgh State Historic Site in Dutchess County. The grounds are unique before the train line does cut off the property from the river. We were also asked to help with contact and permitting information for a Scenic Hudson property in Esopus – the Black Creek Preserve in Ulster County.

Read the full story at https://www.hudsonvalleyfilmcommission.org/newsinfo/https//www.hudsonvalleyfilmcommission.org/2019426

 

Before you click away... grab a free month of HV1. Get unlimited access. Get the news you've been missing. Get connected to your community. Keep local journalism alive at $5/mo., or cancel anytime. And enjoy summer!
- Geddy Sveikauskas, Publisher
Previous Post

Pick up your free gifts at Independent Bookstore Day

Next Post

Controversial Saugerties dumping restrained, but not stopped

Frances Marion Platt

Frances Marion Platt has been a feature writer (and copyeditor) for Ulster Publishing since 1994, under both her own name and the nom de plume Zhemyna Jurate. Her reporting beats include Gardiner and Rosendale, the arts and a bit of local history. In 2011 she took up Syd M’s mantle as film reviewer for Alm@nac Weekly, and she hopes to return to doing more of that as HV1 recovers from the shock of COVID-19. A Queens native, Platt moved to New Paltz in 1971 to earn a BA in English and minor in Linguistics at SUNY. Her first writing/editing gig was with the Ulster County Artist magazine. In the 1980s she was assistant editor of The Independent Film and Video Monthly for five years, attended Heartwood Owner/Builder School, designed and built a timberframe house in Gardiner. Her son Evan Pallor was born in 1995. Alternating with her journalism career, she spent many years doing development work – mainly grantwriting – for a variety of not-for-profit organizations, including six years at Scenic Hudson. She currently lives in Kingston.

Related Posts

The greenest theater in America
Explore

The greenest theater in America

July 3, 2022
Bridge Music Dance Project unites ten dance companies on Walkway this Saturday
Stage & Screen

Bridge Music Dance Project unites ten dance companies on Walkway this Saturday

June 23, 2022
Woodstock officials discuss connections to state trails
Community

Homeless in Woodstock doc draws crowd as officials seek answers

June 22, 2022
NPHS students cover “Night in a Day”
Stage & Screen

NPHS students cover “Night in a Day”

June 17, 2022
Music in the Parks, Movies under the Stars return to Kingston
Community

Music in the Parks, Movies under the Stars return to Kingston

June 17, 2022
Letters to the editor (4/28/21)
Stage & Screen

Chris Finlay’s film documents local lives

June 16, 2022
Next Post
Controversial Saugerties dumping restrained, but not stopped

Controversial Saugerties dumping restrained, but not stopped

Please login to join discussion

Trending News

  • Something for everyone at the Saugerties Food Truck Festival  0.9k views
  • No contractors available for Saugerties schools work 850 views
  • Police searching for two in Woodstock burglary 784 views
  • Free shuttle service for Fourth of July festivities in Kingston 741 views
  • Shaggy lawns may mean fines in Saugerties 736 views







Latest HV1 Podcast

Weather

Kingston
◉
70°
Partly Cloudy
5:27 am8:34 pm EDT
Feels like: 70°F
Wind: 5mph SSW
Humidity: 97%
Pressure: 29.76"Hg
UV index: 0
ThuFriSat
82/64°F
82/63°F
81/55°F
Weather forecast Kingston, New York ▸

Ulster County COVID-19 Active Cases

Subscribe

Independent. Local. Substantive. Subscribe now.

  • Subscribe & Support
  • Sign up for Free Newsletter
  • Print Edition
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Contact
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Free HV1 Trial

© 2022 Ulster Publishing

No Result
View All Result
  • News
    • Schools
    • Business
    • Sports
    • Crime
    • Politics & Government
  • What’s Happening
    • Calendar Of Events
    • Featured Events
      • Art
      • Books
      • Kids
      • Lifestyle & Wellness
      • Food & Drink
      • Music
      • Nature
      • Stage & Screen
  • Opinions
    • Letters
    • Columns
    • Editorials
  • Local
    • Special Sections
    • Local History
  • Marketplace
    • All Classified Ads
    • Help Wanted
    • Post a Classified Ad
  • Obituaries
  • Podcast
  • Subscribe & Support
  • Contact Us
    • Customer Support
    • Advertise
    • Submit A News Tip
  • Print Edition
    • Read ePaper Online
    • Newsstand Locations
    • Where’s My Paper
  • HV1 Magazines
  • Manage HV1 Account
  • Log In
  • Free HV1 Trial

© 2022 Ulster Publishing