We like shooting in Detroit. It's like the biggest backlot in the USA. We can do just about anything we want. Car chase in the middle of the day on a weekday? No problem! Can we put some flame bars in the windows of that abandoned house to look like its burning? "No problem, burn it to the ground if you want to!". Detroit is very, very friendly to us. The support from the City in terms of having one point of contact for all permits for police, fire, public works is like it used to be in Los Angeles.
Watch another episode or three. We change Directors most episodes to keep it fresh.
As I go back there (waiting to see if they get picked up for the back 9 episodes for the season as we wait), I'll take some more pics. It was a beautiful city and its sad what has become of it. BUT what amazed me is with all the closed/burned out/abandoned/boarded up buildings the city is amazingly clean in terms of there being no trash on the streets, no burned out cars. Its sort of like walking (driving actually) through an ancient civilization like Pompeii, you see lots of old relic buildings, but not a lot of trash/litter. Ten or twenty miles outside of the city limits its quite beautiful countryside.
If you haven't seen the other thread that I started on Detroit, click here
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/off-topic-discussions/554107-detroit-has-died-but-hasnt-fallen-over-yet.html