Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Bridges in Vancouver this winter to film thriller

Chris Hemsworth and Jeff Bridges are coming to Vancouver to film a big budget Hollywood movie.

The Thor and Tron actors will be in the city early next year to work on Bad Times at the El Royale, a 20th Century Fox thriller by Academy Award-nominated director Drew Goddard.

According to What’s Filming, production is scheduled to occur in the city between January 29 and April 13.

The film is set in the 1960s in a dilapidated hotel in the Lake Tahoe region in California. Hemsworth is slated to play a cult leader while Bridges will be a convict doubling as a priest.

The film is scheduled for release on October 5, 2018.

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