“Any day now” offers a fresh riff on the Gardner Museum Heist

“Any day now,” who celebrates Boston premiere on March 17 at the Somerville Theater, is reflected on the famous, unconventional, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist.

Onnscreen, while mafia, drug traffickers and art thieves sink to make their plans, the writer-leader Eric Aronson explained how his fictionalized version was not concerned with speculation.

“This is the 35th anniversary and we have no answers. The only thing we know for sure, “he said in a telephone interview,” is that there are very interesting people associated with this robbery.

“We know that that night he was a night guard who let him go. Another night guard was walking through the museum. That’s the fact.

“I am a type of fiction” – Aronson, 55, a Boston originator has written a 25 -year -old Hollywood Studios. “This is a completely fictional RIFF. As a jam session of different ideas that I have read over the years.

“What was interesting to me was not necessarily to try to tell a direct story of what happened that night. I am more interested in the characters, their relationships, in the funny things I hear that people say all their lives growing here in Boston.

“For me, that was the story. I put the robbery enough in the background that we know it is there, but I am more interested in other things.

“True inspiration,” he continued, “is this French film,” Film The Piano Player ” – an obscure from 1960 Francois Truffaut Classic.

“In his version, he took Heist and put this in the background. What he put in the foreground were these characters and how they reacted to each other. He took what he knew as inspiration and turned it into a soup that was totally different from that of anyone else. “

“Any day now” it just seems to have filmed at The Gardner.

“I filmed every minute of this movie in Boston. Massachusetts has a large fiscal credit program, which I used. I filmed the museum scenes at the Hammond Castle on the North shore.

“It worked so well because when he built his castle, he was inspired by Isabella Stewart Gardner. Just as I was inspired by this aspect. He built a similar house, but not the same. “

In the same way, Aronson’s film is about Fabed Heist, but not.

“I did my research; Everyone thinks he knows what happened. This is the other fact of Gardner Heist – people have very powerful opinions.

“And he doesn’t even attribute any of them. They are all fascinating to me.

“When you put everything together, this is the art in a way: taking the facts and transforming it into your story.”

“Any day now,” actors Paul Guilfoyle and Taylor Gray join ARONSON in a session of questions and questions after the projection on March 17, 19:30 at the Somerville Theater.