WARREN — Hollywood once again comes to town in the coming days as filming for the upcoming motion picture "Remain" will take place here, beginning Wednesday, June 18.

The film, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name, is being directed by M. Night Shyamalan, whose most recognizable works are "The Sixth Sense" and "Signs." It stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Phoebe Dynevor in what is described as a "romantic thriller." Shyamalan and Sparks are co-writing the script.

Most recently, the 2023 release "Wallie's Gals" was shot in Warren. Prior to that the "World's Worst Director" television series from 2012-13 as well as the 2009 movie "The Suitcase" used the town as a location.

When the crew sets up shop locally this time around, it will be at the Coffee Depot on Main Street, according to Alex Berard, the Rhode Island location manager for Two Beacons Productions, a subsidiary of Blinding Edge Pictures Inc. founded by Shyamalan and which is producing the work.

Berard spoke before the Warren Town Council at its June 10 meeting. The council granted permitting for the filming that same evening.

June 18 is the first day of production on the movie. The "call time," when scenes are actually scheduled to start, is 11 a.m. Crews will begin setting up at 9 a.m. from a staging area away from downtown in the former Bristol Toyota car dealership lot on. Metacom Avenue. The production will use the lot behind La Piñata Mexican Grill + Bar on Main Street as well for some immediate staging needs.

Also, some 40 extras will be bused in from Providence and be situated in the Historic Warren Armory on Jefferson Street for breaks from shooting.

Filming Wednesday is expected to last around four to five hours. The site will then shift to Bristol in the mid-afternoon in preparation for nighttime scenes. The will be extra Warren Police Department presence, paid for by the producers, throughout the day.

"So, ideally, by 11 a.m., we're up and filming at the Coffee Depot. And then we actually have two locations this day. We start our day here, and then we move to Bristol. So I think by 4:35, we're hoping to be sort of loading up and moving to Bristol to shoot some evening scenes down in Bristol," Berard explained. "So all the trucks that are in the lot, everything would leave at the end of that evening. There would be, you know, some, and then we're going to come back the following morning to pick up anything that was left behind. But it should be minimal."

Filming will return to Warren in a couple of week, June 30-July 3, at a private property on Barton Street, which Berard said would be "a little less invasive." The location is set back well off the road.

Berard said the Kickemuit Middle School lot is expected to be used as the staging site for shooting during that time, pending approval of the Bristol Warren Regional School District, which owns the location.

One other item of interest, the tentative release date for "Remain" is October 2026.