Knowing with Nicolas Cage Films on Charles River

Here’s an upcoming Boston movie, Australian style starring Nicolas Cage. The Knowing is an end-of-the-world suspense/thriller. Cage plays a teacher who opens a time capsule from 50 years ago and uncovers some chilling predictions that are about to come true.

Cage spent much of the time filming Knowing in Australia but the movie takes place in the Boston area. To our knowledge, this is the first movie that Australia stands in for the Boston area.

With the most of the filming wrapped up in Australia, the filmmakers came to Boston for some establishing shots recently. Earlier, this month, a casting call went out to area rowers for a rowing scene on the Charles River. This typical establishing shot was made popular with another Boston Movie, The River Wild.

Look for Knowing to hit theaters in March of 2009.