Hathaway, McGregor Star In Metro Detroit Sci-fi Film From Clawson Director

You probably didn’t realize this, but The End of Oak Street, the new film starring Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor, takes place in Metro Detroit… kind of.

There’s an exciting new movie coming out that is a sci-fi adventure film that runs one hour and 40 minutes long and is released on August 14 that many people don’t realize takes place in Michigan, but there’s a bit of a twist to it.

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The film takes place in 1982, and one of the main reasons it’s set in Michigan may be because the writer and director of the film, David Robert Mitchell, is a Clawson native.

In the film, which is set in a fictional suburb of Metro Detroit called Flowervale, a family, which is led by the two lead roles, is subject to a mysterious cosmic event that ends uprooting Oak Street, the street they live on, from a Metro suburban area to a location that has prehistoric monsters roam freely.

The family soon realizes that they have to depend on their survival skills and stick together as they adapt to their new surroundings.

Even though the film takes place in a fictional city outside of Detroit, none of the film was actually shot in our state. All the principal photography was shot in London and Atlanta, but it’s still cool that a Michigan native is directing this new film and showed some love to his Michigan roots.

The film also stars Maisy Stella, a Canadian singer and actress, and Christian Convery, who is best known for the leading role of Gus in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth.

I’m a huge fan of anything having to do with dinosaurs, so this new sci-fi twist bringing dinosaurs and humans together should be interesting. At the current time, it seems to be the most interesting film released, as its only competitors on release day are Paw Patrol, the Dino Movie, and The Brink of War.

Although movie theaters have the ability to do something hilarious and pair the paw patrol movie with this movie and do a double Dino feature. If only we lived in a perfect world…