Ramey is also in the background of the scene filmed inside The Loaded Goat, and also the parade scene where the band is playing. There were other scenes filmed, but didn’t make the cut.” I also am in the scene at The Loaded Goat (restaurant, in Mount Airy) as the waitress walks over to Chris and Shane, the camera pans by me sitting at a table drinking a drink. “As Floyd and Chris are walking from the Courthouse to Wally’s, I walk behind them and you can see me behind them on and off throughout the scene if you look hard enough. “I made it into two scenes,” Durham said. Scenes were edited together to make up the fictional town in the movie, Mayberry, North Carolina, where the fictional Mayberry Fest was held. “And the Mayberry community raised $200,000 of that.” “They use Kickstarter to raise money for their $100,000 budget,” adds Ramey. They were filming in Mount Airy a couple of days during the week of Mayberry Days in 2020.” “They were looking for ‘backers’ in the process and at certain levels you could be an ‘extra’ in a scene. “At Mayberry Days 2019, the sons of Hoke Howell (Stark and Cort) and Ronnie Schell (Greg), held information meetings making a ‘pitch’ for the movie,” said Durham. The film was written and directed by Stark Howell, son of Hoke Howell, an actor who had a one episode guest star appearance as Dud Wash, who was married to Charlene Darlin.
Los Angeles, of course, but a pretty festival organizer (Ashley Elaine) and the all-around cheerfulness of all the Mayberry character reenactors eventually cracks his frosty exterior. The father had a small role in a couple of episodes in “The Andy Griffith Show” and is a regular at the fan fest, but cannot make the upcoming return to Mayberry due to illness. The plot of the film involves a young Hollywood action movie star (played by Brentt Vervel) who is sentenced by a judge to stand in for his father at Mayberry Days.
“We’re not actors,” said Ramey, associate pastor at Harvest Temple Church of God in King.
And they probably won’t be busy during the annual movie awards season next year.īut the experience was downright Oscar-worthy. “Stars” is a bit of a stretch, at the trio’s screen time as extras can be measured in seconds. Principal of Stokes Early College David Durham, Pastor Adrian Ramey and Ramey’s son Aiden are “stars” of the recently released film called “Mayberry Man,” filmed in part in Mount Airy during the 2020 Mayberry Days festival, and also in Danville, Indiana, and Los Angeles. They’re trying hard not to go all ‘Hollywood’ on us, but a trio of Stokes folks are mighty proud to be a part of a movie that is currently available to stream on Amazon Prime. The Ramey family - Adrian, Tiffany and Aiden - on the red carpet with Alan Newsome, an ‘Andy Griffith Show’ super-fan who is in the movie as Floyd the Barber. Pastor Ramey poses with Betty Lynn, the actress who portrayed Thelma Lou on ‘The Andy Griffith Show’ and passed away just days ago.Īt the movie premiere Ramey and Durham flank Rik Roberts, who played the Barney Fife character in ‘Mayberry Man.’
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