Hollywood North: Sandra Bullock filming Netflix feature in Vancouver
Credit to Author: Scott Brown| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 20:13:36 +0000
The cameras are set to roll this week in Vancouver on a still untitled Netflix feature starring Sandra Bullock.
Bullock, who scored a hit on the streaming service last year with the post-apocalyptic supernatural thriller Bird Box, plays a woman re-entering society after serving a lengthy prison sentence for a violent crime.
The movie, which also stars Viola Davis, is being helmed by German director Nora Fingscheidt and was written by Christopher McQuarrie, who penned the Usual Suspects and a slew of Tom Cruise projects including Edge of Tomorrow and several Mission Impossible screenplays.
According to the Directors Guild of Canada production list, the Bullock movie was scheduled to start production on Monday and will wrap on April 9.
Sandra Bullock is filming a Netflix movie in Vancouver.
Disney Plus, the house of mouse’s streaming service, will also be shooting a big budget feature in Vancouver this spring as director David Lowery comes to town to make a live-action Peter Pan movie.
The film, tentatively titled Peter Pan and Wendy, is scheduled to start filming April 13 under the production title Bonfire. It’s expected to wrap up mid-August.
We don’t know who will play Peter or Wendy, or whether there will even be a Tinkerbell, because casting has not yet been announced.
This will be Lowery’s second live-action remake of a Disney classic. In 2016, he brought a re-booted Pete’s Dragon to the big screen.
Vancouver’s film and television community is gearing for TV pilot season which gets underway next month.
The were 10 pilots in Vancouver last year, more than any other North American production hub, and so far, we know of two NBC pilots that will be filmed here next month — the sinkhole drama La Brea and the science-fiction thriller Debris.
La Brea tells the story of a family trying to survive after they are separated by a massive sinkhole that mysteriously opens in Los Angeles, while Debris is an X-Files-like show about agents investigating an alien spacecraft that is causing mysterious effects on people.
Production on Debris starts March 3, while filming on La Brea begins March 10.
The Twilight Zone’s Vancouver crew packed up and headed east Monday for a week-long location shoot in Ashcroft.
Nearly 200 cast and crew have descended on the Interior B.C. village, which has a population of 1,558. Sources say the Twilight Zone crew has booked every hotel room in Ashcroft and nearby Cache Creek, along with some spillover in Kamloops.
Actor Craig Robinson, who played Darryl on The Office, is rumoured to star in the episode which is titled A Small Town.
Filmmaker Jordan Peele’s reboot of the classic Rod Serling series airs on CBS All Access in the U.S. and CITY-TV in Canada.