Sean Penn puts city in middle of ‘Wild’ production

Filming takes over Beaverton restaurant for a couple of days

The Beaverton Valley Times, Oct 5, 2006, Updated Oct 30, 2009

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Equipment fills the McCormick’s Fish House parking lot on the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway Tuesday afternoon.

Actor/director Sean Penn was in town last week and Beaverton became a different city.

It became Atlanta. Sort of.

Penn is directing the feature film “Into The Wild” for River Road Entertainment. It’s the adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s 1997 book about Emory University grad Christopher McCandless who in 1992 tossed away his possessions, hitchhiked to Alaska and lived in a school bus in the forbidding wilderness.

After a few months, he was found dead. Krakauer’s book tells McCandless’ story through a diary, notes and letters found in the dwelling.

Penn adapted Krakauer’s book for the screenplay.

“Into The Wild” stars Emile Hirsch in the lead role, Vince Vaughn, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Zach Galifianakis and Catherine Keener.

Vaughn was in Beaverton three years ago filming “Thumbsucker” with Lou Taylor Pucci, Tilda Swinton and Vincent D’Onofrio. That production used an Aloha house and local schools.

For a few hours Oct. 3 and 4, Beaverton’s McCormick’s Fish House on the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway became a little bit of Atlanta (home of Emory University).

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