Every Word is True Update

Some big name actors are in Central Texas shooting a major motion picture. The movie is called ‘Every Word is True’ and production started Monday in Marlin.
It's a sight even the most seasoned Marlin residents couldn't believe: Sandra Bullock and Toby Jones at the Falls County Courthouse shooting a big Hollywood production.
Marlin Main Street Manager Amanda Jeffers says, “It was our courthouse that attracted them to Marlin. We have a pretty unique courthouse.”
City officials say the production company chose Marlin because of the old-fashioned look of the building.
The movie is a 1960s true story about writer Truman Capote and his relationship with two convicted murders from Kansas who he later writes about in his book ‘In Cold Blood’. Robert Tindle watched the production all morning from his Farm Bureau Insurance business across the street from the courthouse.
Tindle says, “We can hardly get any work done. We're all at the window looking out. We know almost all the extras in the movie.”
About 100 extras were used, many of them Falls County residents. Jerry Bass brought his 1948 fire truck from Mart to be used in the film.
“It's just fun to be involved,” he says. “I've never been in anything like this before.”
Highway 7, the main street through Marlin, was shut down periodically throughout the day. All the focus has city officials smiling all the way to the bank.
“It's good, it's exciting,” Jeffers says. “It brings a lot of people to town.”
They hope all this publicity translates out to future big bucks for Marlin. Production will resume Tuesday, when they will be shooting inside the courthouse.