It’s most likely no secret to lots of you that our stunning little city is used as a backdrop for a lot of on-screen initiatives.
Have you ever ever watched TV or a film and thought, ‘Wow, that place appears to be like acquainted?’
As a result of I hadn’t—till I got here to Squamish.
It’s most likely no secret to lots of you that our stunning little city is used as a backdrop for a lot of on-screen initiatives, however I actually by no means anticipated that so lots of the films and reveals I really like have been truly filmed proper right here.
Most not too long ago, I used to be watching the second episode of The Final of Us—spoiler alert, my coronary heart has nonetheless not recovered from that specific scene—after I seen a well-recognized setting.
One of many present’s essential characters, Joel Miller (performed by Pedro Pascal), alongside Dina (performed by Isabela Merced) and Abby Anderson (performed by Kaitlyn Dever), took shelter from contaminated zombies in what regarded like a decrepit previous copper mine construction.
Go determine that the construction was truly the Britannia Mine Museum.
Museum director of web site and belongings, Deron Johnston, instructed our sister outlet, Vancouver is Superior, that the photographs within the episode, which cowl just a few minutes of time within the present’s actuality, have been filmed in someday.
I used to be staying in Britannia Seashore whereas they have been filming and even drove previous the crew within the car parking zone, however had no concept that what was being filmed can be utilized in considered one of my favorite reveals.
Different scenes for the present are additionally filmed in Britannia Seashore at a set that was constructed to duplicate Jackson, Wyoming.
Additionally final 12 months, whereas pet sitting in Valleycliffe, I took the canine we have been taking care of for a stroll alongside the Stawamus River.
Once I arrived on the Mamquam Forest Service Highway, I seen an enormous movie crew arrange on both facet of the filth highway and fencing blocking a portion of the path I normally walked.
A bit little bit of digging revealed that what was being filmed was truly scenes for Season 2 of Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
One other large present being filmed proper in our very yard.
Earlier than arriving in Canada, I watched a TV sequence with my mom a couple of lady who moved to a small city seeking a recent begin.
I wager you’re not stunned to listen to that it was Virgin River—additionally fairly famously filmed at places round Squamish.
Whereas watching the present, I keep in mind pondering ‘Wow, what an attractive place’ and now right here I’m, in that stunning place, seeing these backdrops on daily basis.
There are a selection of different well-known flicks and sequence which have been filmed throughout city, together with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s movie Strolling Tall, Seth Rogan’s The Interview and the birding movie The Massive Yr with Steve Martin and Jack Black.
And for my fellow Twilight followers, you could be as shocked as I used to be to be taught that Breaking Daybreak was additionally shot right here in Squamish, too.
All this to say, it’s a fairly cool factor to know that in the event you ever depart city and really feel homesick, there are a variety of flicks and reveals you may watch to be transported again.
