Hercules is filming next door to my work

Kevin Sorbo is apparently in Sauget IL filming some movie. Story here.

All we have seen of it, though, is the helicopter circling the mothballed zinc plant next door. No sign of Hercules. No adoring crowd of fans. Some of the operators think they saw a chase going on, which we’re guessing is for the movie.

It’s a bit weird, since normally you don’t like having a helicopter circling over your chemical plant again and again… the week after a helicopter had to be called in to fish some guy out of a corn silo in the ethanol plant down the road.

It’s all a bit weird and unexciting, really. “Hollywood”, eh.

It’s still kind of cool. A three minute scene in Housesitter was filmed in a restaurant right next to where I work. During those few days, I was informed that when I went into a local record store, I’d just missed Steve Martin by mere seconds.

And I once walked by a movie set on the street. I was informed by a lighting guy that they were making a movie with Kate Hudson and Ann Hathaway. I was going to ask if I could meet them, but I already knew the answer.

Is that southern Indiana? From kevinsorbo.net - NEW ALBANY, Indiana (August 30, 2010)- Silver Hills Pictures is
proud to announce that “Sam Steele and the Crystal Chalice” will begin
principal photography on Monday, October 11, 2010 in Louisville,
Kentucky and southern Indiana.

It’s Sauget, Illinois. Think “East St. Louis” (although it’s not technically part of the city of East St. Louis).

It’s a mostly industrial-and-strip-clubs community on the other side of the Poplar Street Bridge (I-55/64) from St. Louis.