Publicist: Filming of 'Captain Phillips' May Not Happen in Sudbury

UPDATED: 6:50 P.M.

The construction crew just shared plans to film today are off due to a lack of daylight. No word on when or if they will try again.

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Despite hours of work by a construction crew, transforming Sudbury Town Center into the town center of Underhill, Vt., for the filming of scenes for the movie "Captain Phillips," publicist Alex Worman told Sudbury Patch in an email the plans may be scrapped.

After dozens of fans waited in Sudbury Town Center in anticipation of the arrival of the movie's star, Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks, Worman answered an email just after 4 p.m. with the news Sudbury may not be used after all.

"There is only the slimmest possibility we will be in Sudbury today," Worman said in the email. "I can't say definitively, but not likely."

Original plans called for the filming of scenes to begin Thursday afternoon, but Sudbury Police Lt. Scott Nix told Sudbury Patch plans were moved up to Wednesday morning.

When asked if the production crew would be in Sudbury on Thursday, Worman did not seem too enthusiastic.

"I won't know for a few hours, but right now I don't believe so," he said in an email at 4:14 p.m. "As you've seen, changes happen on film productions quite regularly so it's quite difficult to ever commit to things with absolute certainty. It's the nature of the process."