POTTERVILLE, Mich. — Hollywood is coming back to Mid-Michigan.
A casting call will be held Saturday for a movie about the 2002 Potterville train derailment.
The director of the movie is from Potterville, some of the actors will be from Potterville and the movie will be shot there, too.
It's all inspired by the derailment of a train carrying hazardous chemicals that forced evacuations 17 years ago.
Sam Davis says his movie, "Cents," will be fictional but inspired by the real derailment.
It's about a kid who puts a penny on the train tracks and thinks he caused the wreck.
"The whole town evacuates for a week and he stays behind in abandoned Potterville and has to survive on his own for a week," Davis said.
Joe Bristol lives in Potterville and said he vividly remembers the date.
"Cars just fleeing the area. As I drove through here, it was like a ghost town. As the information got out, then you realized the seriousness of the nature of what was going on," said Bristol.
"We really want to do this here so that this story is authentic. It is so much a portrait of this community and a real-life event that happened here, and it would be a shame to do it anywhere else," said Davis.
Locals in Potterville said they are excited to see a movie being made about their town.
"I think it's fantastic, especially as a Potterville student who has already had some acclaim for himself from other movies. To want to bring back that part of history is fantastic," Bristol said.
If you want to be in the movie, the casting call will be Saturday at the Potterville High School from noon-5 p.m.
Davis says the actors will be paid.
He plans to start shooting the movie in May or June.
