Will Neo appear in ‘Project Ice Cream’? Mystery movie films soon in San Francisco
Downtown San Francisco promises to be an exciting — and possibly frightening — place next month.
A movie with the working title “Project Ice Cream” is slated to start filming downtown in the Northern California city in early February, according to the San Francisco Film Commission.
“We are working closely with the production and all of the city agencies to ensure that this goes smoothly,” Susannah Greason Robbins, executive director of the film commission, said Thursday in an email to McClatchy News. “We don’t have a permit finalized with them yet.”
But Robbins did share information that the movie’s production team showed to locals at a recent neighborhood meeting, which revealed that “many of our scenes are action chase sequences, and you can expect to hear simulated gunfire, helicopters, pyrotechnics, stunt car driving and choreographed car crashes, and see smoke effects.”
So what is the movie?
In an article earlier this month entitled “It Looks Like ‘Matrix 4’ Will Be Shooting In SF In February,” SFist cites a Production Weekly article that apparently reveals the new “Matrix” movie’s working title is “Project Ice Cream.”
And that’s not the only evidence.
An official in Alameda, a city just east of San Francisco across the bay, said earlier this month that “Warner Bros. — which is producing ‘The Matrix 4’ — had obtained ‘the right permits to do filming’ of an undisclosed project in Alameda as well,” SFGate reported.
Further fueling the rumors, a fan shared a photo in early January showing Keanu Reeves enjoying Baskin-Robbins ice cream in Alameda, the Mercury News reported.
“Could Reeves have been having fun with his film’s ‘Project Ice Cream’ working title in his Baskin-Robbins outing?” Martha Ross asked in the Mercury News.
Several areas of the city’s downtown are scheduled to be blocked to bus and car traffic during filming at times during the month and into March.
Montgomery Street above Market is tentatively set to be closed for several days mid-February, along with a few blocks of streets such as Pine and Bush, where they intersect Montgomery.
The area around the intersection of Pine and Grant is set to be closed later in the month, as are — on various dates and for various lengths of time — the areas around Pine from Powell to Montgomery, Sansome from Sutter to Clay and more, according to the presentation that was shared at the “Project Ice Cream” meet and greet on Jan. 16.
“All helicopter work is anticipated to be completed by midnight each night of filming,” the presentation from the movie-makers said.
This story was originally published January 23, 2020 at 9:19 PM with the headline "Will Neo appear in ‘Project Ice Cream’? Mystery movie films soon in San Francisco."
