City of Stone Mountain closes Main Street for filming Friday

The 20th Century Fox Television series “The Passage” will be filming in the city of Stone Mountain on Friday, Sept. 21. CONTRIBUTED

The 20th Century Fox Television series “The Passage” will be filming in the city of Stone Mountain on Friday, Sept. 21. CONTRIBUTED

Twentieth Century Fox Television will be filming a television show called “The Passage” in the city of Stone Mountain from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 21, according to a press release.

Main Street between James B. Rivers Memorial Drive and Manor Drive and West Mountain Street between Ridge Avenue and 2nd Street will be closed to all traffic. Side streets within these closures will be blocked at their respective Main Street intersections.

Stone Mountain police officers will be on site during this time to ensure the successful flow of traffic through the area. In a statement the studio it will work “to minimize any inconvenience to those in the neighborhood.”

Based on author Justin Cronin’s best-selling trilogy of the same name, “The Passage” is an epic, character-driven thriller written by Liz Heldens (“Friday Night Lights”). Executive-produced by Emmy Award winner and Academy Award and Golden Globe nominee Ridley Scott (“The Martian,” “Gladiator”) and writer/director Matt Reeves (“Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,” “Cloverfield”), “The Passage” focuses on Project NOAH, a secret medical facility where scientists are experimenting with a dangerous virus that could lead to the cure for all disease, but also carries the potential to wipe out the human race. When a young girl, Amy Bellafonte (Saniyya Sidney, “Fences,” “Hidden Figures”), is chosen to be a test subject, Federal Agent Brad Wolgast (Mark-Paul Gosselaar, “Pitch”) is the man who is tasked with bringing her to Project NOAH. Ultimately, however, Wolgast becomes her surrogate father, trying to protect her at any cost.

Watch the trailer here.