In action flick ‘Bushwick,’ militants, not hipsters, invade Brooklyn
“Who f – - king invades Bushwick ?” Most people would answer “hipsters.” But that question comes straight out of a new action movie called “Bushwick,” out Friday, which depicts a large- scale military invasion of the hot Brooklyn nabe — by Texas. Wait. Who makes an action movie about Bushwick? “I lived in Bushwick for about five or six years about 10 years ago,” Cary Murnion, the film’s co-director, tells The Post. “I thought [the people] just had a great spirit, and if there was something that went down, if they were invaded, they’d fight back.” And fight back they do. In the movie, actors Dave Bautista and Brittany Snow bound around the actual neighborhood — stocking up on supplies in a bodega (Edward’s Grocery & Deli), seeking refuge in a school (IS 162, the Willoughby School) and dodging bullets on bona fide Bushwick streets . “Ninety-five percent of the movie was filmed within these five blocks,” Murnion says. For eagle-eyed New York movie lovers , such authenticity is re...