Get Low, Starring Bill Murray and Robert Duvall has started Filming at 19 Temple Avenue.

Here is what the Times-Herald says:

By Jeff Bishop

Filming began Monday for the Newnan location featured in the Bill Murray/ Robert Duvall movie “Get Low,” at the Atkinson-Glover home, 19 Temple Ave.
“Bill Murray is over there right now, and I think Robert Duvall comes Tuesday,” said the owner of the house, Gandy Glover.

The Queen Anne-style home was built by Theodore Atkinson in 1895. It is considered an outstanding example of architecture from the high Victorian period — and it has been featured in past screen productions, including most recently the television drama “October Road.”

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“What the production company liked about it is that none of the woodwork has been painted, and the floor is natural pine,” said Glover.

“I had just restored the whole house and had all the rooms painted for the Georgia Trust Ramble that came through here last year, so it was in tip-top shape,” said Glover. “Now the film crews are going in there and they’re making it look like the walls are leaking and everything, because the movie is set during the Great Depression.”

The drama, based on a true story, is directed by Aaron Schneider from a screenplay by C. Gaby Mitchell and Chris Provenzano, according to the Internet Movie Database.

“It’s about a guy who runs a funeral home who just can’t get anybody to bury to make any money. Nobody’s dying in the town,” said Glover.

“Robert Duvall’s character comes out of the mountains with a fistful of money, and he says he can bury him, but he wants to be at the funeral to see what people say about him.”

“They’ve taken over two or three rooms and made it into a 1930s, run-down funeral home,” said Glover. “They’re letting me stay in two of the back rooms, but they might run me out when they shoot. They’re going to shoot some scenes at night.”

The house is unique in that it’s strongly asymmetrical, with a tower on the left and a gazebo-like porch on the right. Balconies, bays, arches, and dormers are featured on the exterior.

The house remained in the same family for many years and has been carefully maintained and unchanged.

“I went to school across the street when I was young, and I had always admired that house,” said Glover about his purchase of the home some years ago. “Rev. Richard E. Hardaway lived in it.”

Glover said that sometimes the boys playing ball at school would “knock balls into his yard.”
“He was retired when I knew him,” said Glover.

When Glover returned from the University of Georgia, his mother began “cutting out articles from the newspaper of different places I might rent,” he said. “She was trying to get me out of the house.”

Glover had heard that Mrs. Hardaway had died and he inquired whether Rev. Hardaway would be interested in selling the house.

“I told him I’d like to buy it, and to just let me know when he was ready,” said Glover.
About a year later Glover received a phone call and
the deal was on, he said.

“About six months after that, he told me he was ready to close,” said Glover. “But I never even set foot in the front door of the house until I bought it.”
That was in 1972, so Glover has owned the home for nearly 40 years.

He said a scout from Los Angeles who used to live in Georgia found the house for the production company making the film.

“She just walked up in my driveway one day,” said Glover. “She said they were looking for a house that could be a funeral home and they thought my house was perfect.”

The director and the crew visited twice, he said, “and now there are over 60 people over there. It’s pretty exciting.”

Glover said that State Rep. Mitch Seabaugh’s new film tax incentives are a major reason that films are looking to Georgia once again after a 15-year drought.

“I think that’s going to bring a lot of the film industry to Georgia,” said Glover.

As for “Get Low,” Glover said that Bill Murray is “a great guy,” but he looks a little funny in his costume for the movie.

“His pants are a little short because he’s not supposed to have enough money to buy the right clothes,” said Glover. “We’ve listened to him do a whole scene in the front room. Sissy Spacek’s supposed to be in it, too,” and Duvall may be on set as early as Tuesday.

Interestingly, the surf board from Duvall’s iconic portrayal of Col. Kilgore in “Apocalypse Now” makes its permanent home in Coweta County, on display at the Redneck Gourmet in Senoia. The owners of RiverWood Studios did special effects for the film.
During filming this week for “Get Low,” there will be stop and go traffic with detours set up at College Street/Temple Avenue and Temple Avenue/Jackson Street. There will also be a barricade on Kellogg Street just south of the entrance to Maggie Brown School, with access remaining for area residents.
“Get Low” also plans to film in north Coweta County at Oak Grove Plantation, 4537 U.S. 29, the home of Liz and George Tedder, on Feb. 12-13.

Newnan City Council last week approved requests from two production companies to film scenes for major motion pictures in the city, including “Get Low.” The other is Sony Pictures’ “Zombieland,” starring Woody Harrelson, which will film in the downtown area the weekend of March 29.