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Altered Carbon
Can you imagine living in a world where you could upload yourself into a new body if you wanted to?
Or a world in which you could attend a high-school to be trained to be a killer?
Or grew up with the ability to foretell when someone is about to die?
Those are the premises of three productions on the slate for filming in Vancouver. And they’re a part of this week’s roundup of what’s shooting in the city.
Interested? Well, then, read on.
Jason Momoa
Today’s a busy day as there are two feature films and two TV series all starting up production.
One film is an Indigenous supernatural mystery while the other is a remake of a 1980s slasher flick.
On the TV side of things, a new futuristic Apple TV series boots up while a parallel-universe series gets into its fourth season.
Here’s the rundown of what’s going in Vancouver’s screen scene this week.
Lost in Space
So this week’s roundup of what’s happening in Vancouver’s screen scene is kind of spacey.
Well, what we mean by that is that we take a look at two TV series shooting here, one about science and space while the other is a science-fiction series about a family in space.
Speaking of families, there’s another series in the mix about a family on the run that has wound up in Vancouver this season.
Meanwhile on the local talent front, an Indigenous cinematic production will take a novel by a B.C. First Nations writer to the big screen.
So if you want to know more about all of this stuff, here’s a quick look at what’s shooting in Vancouver this week and in the weeks to come.
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Filming in Vancouver: Lost in Space, Cosmos, Monkey Beach, and the Detour
Image by Kyle Pearce | Flickr
A glass skyline that reflects vibrant summer sunsets, moody forests of damp mist after a winter rainfall, a medley of languages that pass by on city sidewalks, and neighbourhoods of coffee shops, used book stores, produce markets and theatre all just a walk away from the water’s edge; Vancouver has many places that inspire stories. And many authors who have been inspired to write here.
We asked four Vancouver authors from the Globe and Mail’s 100 Best Books of 2017 list where their favorite places in the city to read are, and here’s what they said:
