Owen, Aniston movie has lock on reservation to visit Joliet

JOLIET, Ill. -- It was featured in movie classics such as The Sting and The Blues Brothers, and now another major motion picture will film scenes at the former Joliet Correctional Center.
Owen

Portions of Derailed, a thriller starring Clive Owen and Jennifer Aniston, are scheduled to be filmed this fall in Joliet, located about 40 miles south of Chicago. The movie is about an advertising executive whose life turns upside down after he misses his train to work.

Owen, who recently starred in King Arthur, will be in town when a prison sequence is filmed, said Joe Amari, senior location scout for the Illinois Film Office.

It is unlikely Aniston -- of TV's Friends -- will be in Joliet, Amari said.

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