Citizen Staff/Jim Kelsh
"Public Enemies" director Michael Mann will focus again on Columbus next week as well as a shoot at the Rogers in Beaver Dam.
Johnny Depp will be back in Columbus on Tuesday, and the city once again will revert back to its 1930s feel for a day for the filming of "Public Enemies."
"Public Enemies" is a Michael Mann-directed film about the life of notorious bank robber John Dillinger, which will star Johnny Depp. The movie co-stars Christian Bale as Melvin Purvis and Marion Cotillard as Billie Frechette.
"Red Hamilton, one of John Dillinger's gang members, will be shot dead in the street," Mayor Nancy Osterhaus said Tuesday.
Actor Jason Clarke portrays Hamilton.
Osterhaus said it looks like filming will last only one day. Shooting will take place downtown and at the Poser house, where filming took place during the previous sessions in mid-March.
Many of the signs and the cobblestone street will be put back in place. A team of about 100 workers will complete the task through the end of the week and into next week.
The movie will be filming in Beaver Dam at The Rogers on April 30.
Shooting then will move to Madison, and Osterhaus said that will be the final hurrah for Wisconsin filming for "Public Enemies."
This week, crews are in northern Wisconsin at the exact spot where Dillinger tried to hide from the FBI.
Little Bohemia Lodge in Manitowish Waters is also the site of a famous 1930s shooting in the federal government's chase for Dillinger and his gang of thieves.
Producers also filmed in Crown Point, Ind., and Oshkosh.
For Columbus, Osterhaus said the benefit of filming has exceeded a quarter of a million dollars for local businesses.
"There's a couple from Arizona who came to see the first filming and will be back next Tuesday," she said, pointing to the widespread interest in the city. "They flew in and will be coming back."
She has also heard from people who live in Nevada and Arizona coming in just to watch the filming.
The crews alone, who have to eat every day, are a boon to the local economy, she said.
There is still talk of doing something such as "Dillinger Days" in advance of the movie's release next year.
"We want to have some fun with this," she said.