EXCLUSIVE: Hollywood Comes To Wrightstown For Ridley Scott’s New Streaming Series

Wrightstown Township has been looking like a mini-Hollywood this week.

Apple TV+ episodic crime drama series “Sinking Spring” has been shooting in the township throughout the week and is expected to continue filming through Thursday, according to people with knowledge of the production.

NewtownPANow.com observed the crew shooting at the Eureka Stone Quarry on Swamp Road near the Davis Feed Mill in Wrightstown Township’s Rushland section and on Rushland Road in Wrightstown Township and Warwick Township.

The production included actors on motorcycles and in Pennsylvania State Police uniforms. It also included a mock state police SUV and what appeared to be a camera boom and effects equipment at the quarry property.

Newtown Township and Warwick Township officers provided traffic control along Rushland Road and near the quarry. Part of Rushland Road was closed in the townships as crews were shooting scenes with motorcycles.

Security staff attempted to block a reporter from shooting photos of production from the public street, but the guard backed down after calling a supervisor.

A NewtownPANow.com reader said the logistics camp for the Wrightstown Township shooting was based on the former runway at Warminster Community Park a few miles away. Vans were reported to be shuttling cast and crew between the two locations.

The multi-million dollar production has been shooting in the region and extensively throughout Bucks County since February. The production has previously used explosives for an Upper Bucks County shoot, and it is expected to shoot in Bristol Borough or Bristol Township before wrapping up production in the coming months.

“Sinking Spring,” which is going by the working title “Catamount,” will film in the Philadelphia region through July, sources said.

The new Ridley Scott-directed streaming series is based on the book “Dope Thief” by Dennis Tafoya.

The series “follows long-time Philly friends and delinquents who pose as DEA agents to rob an unknown house in the countryside, only to have their small-time grift become a life-and-death enterprise, as they unwittingly reveal and unravel the biggest hidden narcotics corridor on the Eastern seaboard,” according to the official logline reported on by entertainment industry trade publication Variety.

The eight-episode series is set to star Brian Tyree Henry, Wagner Moura, Kate Mulgrew, and Marin Ireland. Actor Michael Mando had started shooting, but was replaced by Moura after what the Hollywood Reporter called a “clash” with a co-star that occurred on set.