Published: Thursday April 28, 2022 – Newsroom
GENZANO (Current) – Roads closed and heavy traffic restrictions. Very concerned citizens and merchants
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In almost two weeks Genzano it is “taken” and “besieged” by the Americans, but not this time by the Allied troops, as happened in ’44. But from the American “troops” the Wildside film production which the film series”Fast & Furious“arrived at the 10th episode of the saga. 
From May 8th to 18thmuch of the city center will suffer according to the Municipal Decree signed by the Council and the Mayor: a total upheaval. With roads closed to vehicular traffic, even pedestrians at some hours. Store owners have already been offered a stay-at-home allowance for the film’s rehearsal and shooting days. While many of the residents of the many streets involved are wondering where to park their cars and if they can return home during the days of rehearsals and filming.
As vehicle and pedestrian traffic will be banned for several days and the parade area will be set up, a large area of the historic center (essentially the entire area) will not be able to be parked.
Here are the affected streets and squares: via Bruno Buozzi, Italo Belardi, Cesare Battisti, Piazza Marconi (in front of the old cathedral), about Bruno Annarumi and about Don Morosini (area next to and opposite Palazzo Cesarini), Dante Alighieri Square. All areas where they arrive, fake bombs, rotating areas, special effects, super flaming phantasmagorical cars.
Driving ban and pedestrian passage, moving zone, parking ban for many days. Last week’s decree even provides for a closure for filming between May 8th and 18th of a substantial part of the central course along Via Appia Nuova, level of Via Colabona, section of Corso Gramsci, up to Piazza Frasconi, Corso Don Minzoni, the speech. for the rehearsals”.
There will be watching over the center of Genzano dozens of bodyguardsthat keeps the curious at a safe distance and does not allow anyone to approach the places chosen as sets and the actors of the saga, who will arrive in Rome on May 5th.
But that in Genzano will probably only be for a few hours on May 16th and 17th for the actual shooting in the area of the set between Via Italo Belardi, Via Bruno Buozzi and Piazza Marconi (or the Duono Vecchio) with headquarters in Piazza Frasconi in the former Locatelli school. Area that will be subject to a tight cordon, private surveillance by the production bodyguard and a driving ban, and pedestrians in a few hours.
With the local police committed to assisting and assisting traffic condition staff Dozens of 10-day bans.
Jason Mamoa, Vin Diesel and the other protagonists of the series Fast & Furious 10 (now Fast X) will be in Rome from May 5th, arriving at Ciampino airport by private plane, likely to stay at a well-known hotel in the Castelli Romani and accompanied on sight by the film production’s bodyguards and their personal staff. However, those who weren’t expecting the wild and groomed Italian, Roman and Castelli Romani paparazzi are ready to do whatever it takes to catch them.
As the king of Roman paparazzi, Rino Barillari, always says, “In our work, you shoot in series first and then ask if they want to be photographed. well-known personalities live and they earn millions of euros thanks to their audiences, who often hide behind their aggressive gorillas and bodyguards who act like stars and grumps”.
According to the contract with the American production company Wildside srl, around 48,000 euros flow into the municipal coffers for the occupancy of public land and local municipal leases. The public lighting street lamps will also be removed and other works will also be carried out on the disastrous streets of Genzano, at the expense of the film production, which will then have to restore the locations and put the public street lamps back in their place after filming closes on May 18th. Rehearsals and some scenes have already started according to some rumors leaked in the American newspapers, Genzano is not the only place that the director and producers have chosen.
There is also the city Turinsome towns in Calabria and Last Minute Scoop also a well-known hotel restaurant in Nemi that has been home to campers and movie trucks for the past few days, with the area guarded by menacing bodyguards.
“With the monumental bridge viaduct Appia Closed to transit due to works, in Ariccia, the closure of transit in a few days in the center of Genzano, with detours to alternative roads already permanently congested by traffic, you risk the total closure of transit for ten days, “said Mr BE, who lives in the Genzano area affected by the bans and drives his van to Rome every day to work as a craftsman.
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