Filming in Toronto (Canada) and not set on the Enterprise....
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Wow, I had no idea Lucifer was shot in Vancouver. So was Tom Ellis' other show Rush, which also took place in L.A.
Jackie Chan's Rumble in the Bronx was shot in Vancouver and they didn't even try to hide the coastline or the mountains.
Reign is shot in the outskirts of Toronto. If you watch that show you'll get some idea of what to expect from location shooting.
I was surprised too; I assumed it was shot in LA. But only the pilot was.
^ We do see a lot of clubs and homes with a certain look which is what made me assume it was L.A. Now I'm trying to think back at the location shooting.
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce is another show that's shot in Vancouver but takes place in L.A., as was The L Word. And The L.A. Complex and was shot in Toronto. All three are convincing as taking place in L.A.
It's amazing what you can get away with when you use the right locations, the right shots that don't show too much, warm lighting and carefully placed plants.
Trek should do well if they need to dress up the environment. And they've got good CGI to take care of the Vasquez Rocks.
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce is another show that's shot in Vancouver but takes place in L.A., as was The L Word. And The L.A. Complex and was shot in Toronto. All three are convincing as taking place in L.A.
It's amazing what you can get away with when you use the right locations, the right shots that don't show too much, warm lighting and carefully placed plants.
Trek should do well if they need to dress up the environment. And they've got good CGI to take care of the Vasquez Rocks.
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^ The new Daredevil doesn't even shoot in Hell's Kitchen because it doesn't look enough like Hell's Kitchen.
It's rather distracting if you are familiar with a certain place, and a movie has a scene set in that place, but you can tell that it was not made in that place, especially if you recognize the place where it was actually made. And I just used the word "place" enough times for this week...
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Yeah, it was distracting seeing so many familiar Vancouver actors (Garry Chalk, Hiro Kanagawa, Terry Chen, Brian Markinson, Ty Olsson) in the scenes supposedly taking place in Japan. Kinda spoiled the illusion. (And it's frustrating that they made a Godzilla movie with scenes set in Japan and didn't actually shoot in Japan.)
I was watching Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol and they were in Moscow. Then Mike Dopud shows up.
At least these things convincing until you see certain actors.
At least these things convincing until you see certain actors.
And I believe that all the "Japan" scenes in the latest GODZILLA were filmi
Hell, it hasn't looked like the Hell's Kitchen of the old Frank Miller comics for decades. True story: when I was writing the novelization of the DAREDEVIL movie, I wasted an afternoon walking around the real Hell's Kitchen,trying to soak up the atmosphere, but I quickly realized that the scuzzy Hell's Kitchen of the comics (which were even then at least a decade old) had long since given way to gentrification and Giuliani.
In the end, I ignored reality and just described the godforsaken urban cesspool of the comics and pre-production art . . ..
I've always thought it was a cool idea for the Daredevil TV show to use the Chitauri invasion in The Avengers to explain why Hell's Kitchen has become run-down and crime-ridden again. In fact, I thought it'd be a cool idea even before they actually did it.
Or Michael (Tigh) Hogan, who's just started turning up in a recurring role on 12 Monkeys.
Actually, they use a pretty substantial amount of CGI to "fix" locations in non-genre shows where you wouldn't really expect special effects.^ We do see a lot of clubs and homes with a certain look which is what made me assume it was L.A. Now I'm trying to think back at the location shooting.
Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce is another show that's shot in Vancouver but takes place in L.A., as was The L Word. And The L.A. Complex and was shot in Toronto. All three are convincing as taking place in L.A.
It's amazing what you can get away with when you use the right locations, the right shots that don't show too much, warm lighting and carefully placed plants.
Trek should do well if they need to dress up the environment. And they've got good CGI to take care of the Vasquez Rocks.
Heh, my favorite Toronto show was Forever Knight
Yeah, Toronto has more in common with NYC. They'll likely be using it as a stand-in for SanFran and Starfleet Academy in particular. And yes, they couldn't be any more different. Very different climates. You'd have to travel up a bit further north to get forest landscapes, which they might do if the need arises. We also have lots of lakes.
Heh, I remember watching that and seeing it made me do a double-take. There are mountains in the Bronx? Who knew?!
I remember when Fringe and Caprica were airing at the same time and they used the same building in Vancouver for Harvard and the school on Caprica. That really took me out of the show the first time they showed it.
https://moviemaps.org/locations/v1
https://moviemaps.org/locations/v1
Which makes it odd that Fringe, which shot its first season in NYC (often doubling as Boston), moved to Vancouver for the rest of the series. Toronto would probably have made more sense. (One of the clearest signs of the move was that the windows of Nina Sharp's office in Massive Dynamic got much smaller, since they could no longer show off the real Manhattan skyline and had to settle for a fake backdrop.)
We don't know if they'll set scenes on Earth at all at this point.
Then there are all the buildings that the Vancouver Central Library has stood in for. It was Caprica City Hall, "Other Side" Fringe Division Headquarters, a restaurant in The Flash, and countless other things. I used to think that included Continuum's Vancouver Police HQ, but I know better after a rewatch. In fact, it turns out that Lucifer's LAPD office scenes are filmed in the same location as Continuum's VPD scenes.
Hey, that's a neat site to browse around -- though it's much richer with Vancouver locations than Toronto ones, and it only lists one of the movies shot here in Cincinnati, so I guess it's incomplete. Turns out there's actually a Vancouver location called Central City, and it's been used in The Flash. How could they not?
