Bayonne or South Philly, what’s the difference?

That’s what producers figured when they decided to shoot the independent comedy “Crabs in a Bucket” in Bayonne this month.

The movie will star Jeremy Piven (“Entourage”), Taryn Manning (“Orange Is the New Black”), Bruce Dern (“Nebraska”), Zach McGowan (“Shameless”) and Jamie Kennedy (“Malibu’s Most Wanted”).

Piven plays Mick, a real estate developer who returns to his South Philadelphia neighborhood after his mother’s death and learns she left him the family pub. Mick’s boss, however, wants to destroy the pub to develop land, forcing Mick to choose between the bar and his job.

“In our story, the town is a character in the story and Bayonne was a real nice fit,” said the film’s co-writer Greg Lingo.

Paolo Pilladi, founder of Goodie Goodie Productions, co-wrote the script with Lingo and is directing the movie, which is expected to be released in 2020.

“We would like to welcome the production to Bayonne, and are happy that our city was able to provide authentic settings for ‘Crabs In A Bucket,’” Bayonne Mayor Jimmy Davis said in a press release.

Inspired by his suburban Philadelphia upbringing and the people he’s met along the way, Lingo started writing the movie almost a decade ago, he said. A friend connected him with Pilladi, who had also grown up outside Philadelphia, and the two wrote with a mutual understanding of the characters.

Lingo said the actors make up “a cast of our dreams.”

“Each of them gets the story that we’re trying to tell, which is a story of people holding their friends back from reaching their potential and how it can be pathetically funny at the same time,” he said.

The team plans on taking the movie to film festivals and is anticipating success because of the cast, Lingo said.

The film’s supporting cast includes Betsy Beutler, Natasha Coppola-Shalom, Lauren Francesca, Jason James Richter, Royce Johnson, Chris Kerson, Jack McGee, Garry Pastore and Peter Patrikios.

Future Proof Films, JARS Production and Goodie Goodie Productions are behind the project with Rob Simmons, DJ Dodd and Ante Novakovic as producers.

For Lingo, finally bringing the script to life has been a whirl of emotions.

“It’s invigorating and exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time."