Penn Badgley to Walk Among Us Again, This Time as Jeff Buckley

By on August 19, 2011 10:51 pm in Movie shoots, Music

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Twentysomething heartthrob Penn Badgley (photo at left), who has graced the sidewalks of Brooklyn Heights in Gossip Girl and Margin Call, will be back next week playing the role of Jeff Buckley, son of the 1960s singer-songwriter Tim Buckley, in Greetings from Tim Buckley which tells the story of Jeff’s preparation for a 1991 concert in honor of his father, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 28. Jeff, a talented singer-songwriter himself (see video after the jump) died in 1997, at the age of thirty, in a drowning accident. Most of the filming will take place inside St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Church, Clinton and Montague Streets, where the actual concert took place, although some shots will take place outside the Church on Clinton Street, and on Livingston Street between Court and Adams streets. A schedule, courtesy of Community Board 2, follows the jump.

On Monday August 22, 2011, between the appoximate hours of 6:00 am and 9:00 pm, the feature film “Greetings From Tim Buckley” is scheduled to film interior and exterior scenes at the following locations:

— Clinton Street between Pierrepont and Montague Streets
— Livingston Street between Court and Adams Streets
— St. Ann’s Church at 157 Montague Street at Clinton Street

On Tuesday August 23, 2011, they are scheduled to film interior scenes at St. Ann’s Church, again between the appoximate hours of 6:00 am and 9:00 pm.

On Wednesday August 24, 2011, between the appoximate hours of 7:00 am and 9:00 pm, they are scheduled to film interior and exterior scenes at the following locations:

— Clinton Street between Pierrepont and Montague Streets
— St. Ann’s Church

On Thursday August 25, 2011, they are scheduled to film interior scenes at St. Ann’s Church, , in this case between the appoximate hours of 8:00 am and 12:00 am.

ALL TIMES APPROXIMATE.

As with most film and television shoots in the community district, there will be parking restrictions associated with the production. Complaints about the film above and beyond the usual inconveniences that accompany filming may be directed to Community Board 2; (718) 596-5410 or cb2k@nyc.rr.com.

If you have further questions you can contact their Locations Department at (347) 889-5660.

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  • x

    who cares.

    They are also shooting Broadway Empire on Remsen next week.

  • T.K. Small

    I just find it interesting that Claude knows who this guy is and describes him as a “heartthrob”. I never heard of him before.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    T.K.: not my heartthrob, I hasten to add. Being the pop culture naif that I am, I knew next to nothing about him (apart from his being mentioned in a couple of earlier BHB posts) before I did research for this post.

  • bklyn20

    I actually went to this concert, and had a conversation with Jeff Buckley when I passed him walking down Montague Street ( he admired my dog.) Calling him a heartthrob actually diminishes his singing, general musicianship and songwriting talent — it puts him in Justin Bieber terrritory. (I now preemptively apologize to any tweens reading this blog.)

    He (Buckley) died tragically a couple of years ago while swimming in the Mississippi. Whenever I hear Rufus Wainwright singing his version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” I remember Jeff Buckley’s earlier, far superior version of the same song. I have since conceived an irrational hatred of Rufus Wainwright.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    I didn’t call Tim Buckley a heartthrob, I called Penn Badgley one.

  • bklyn20

    Sorry, Claude — I thought you were callling JEFF Buckley a heartthrob. As I do not watch “Gossip Girl,” even though they film regularly in front of Packer, I cannot judge Penn Badgely’s heatrthrobbiness.

  • http://selfabsorbedboomer.blogspot.com Claude Scales

    Nor can I, really. Sorry about mixing up the Buckleys pere et fils.