Russell Crowe is spending much of September in the Baltimore area filming scenes for a new thriller, “Body of Lies.”

Crowe was in Annapolis Friday, shooting two scenes at St. Andrew’s United Methodist Day School.

The movie is Crowe’s fourth collaboration with director Ridley Scott.

Scott is using locations in Baltimore to stand in for Manchester, England, and Munich, Germany. The production will later move to Morocco.

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“Body of Lies,” based on a novel by Washington Post columnist David Ignatius, co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, who has not yet arrived in the area.

The dramatic thriller is expected to be in theaters sometime in 2008.

The Associated Press contribued to this report.