A home that’s quite similar to the home featured in the film “Up” will be at the center of an upcoming movie produced by the director of “Easy A,” according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The unassuming house in the middle of a Seattle city block, with mega-stores all around it, was like the real-life version of the movie “Up.” But since the owner died and no one wanted to take over the now-abandoned home, the home has been donated to charity.
Edith Macefield was the matriarch of the hold-out house. Even though she received offers as high as $1 million to leave her home so the construction of a mall could take over the entire block, she resisted and lived in her beloved home for decades.
It wasn’t out of spite, as many may think. Indeed, such homes are often called “spite homes” because of the owners’ distaste for behaviors of community members. One home even had a story of revenge — one neighbor trying to get back at the other.
But Macefield apparently enjoyed all of the construction around her and simply wanted to stay in her long-time home.
When Macefield died in 2008, her estate went to, believe it or not, the superintendent of the construction project. The two had become friends. But the home wasn’t wanted, it seemed, as it was sold, foreclosed and put up for auction before arriving at its current situation.
And now, the home will have a happy ending – and even more notoriety. A non-profit agreed to take the home and preserve it in early August. And now the home will get its own time on the big screen.
The local newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, reports, “The house really will float away, but not by air,” giving this real-life story a Hollywood-movie ending worthy of Edith Macefield herself.
What will happen to the now-empty lot, with a mall all around it, is yet to be seen.
