Filming season in Vancouver is just beginning and a number of prominent TV shows and films are gearing up start shooting. Notable additions to this year’s annual crop of television series are big films such as ‘Deadpool’ and Spielberg’s ‘The B.F.G.’
Check out the list of productions below, and let us know if you spot any of these filming around town.
Arrow (TV)
Shooting: Season 4 expected to shoot beginning in July
Starring: Stephen Amell, Katie Cassidy
Plot: The adventures of playboy billionare, ‘Arrow’.
Backstrom (TV)
Starring: Rainn Wilson
Plot: Portland Police Bureau Detective struggles with his self-destructive tendencies while being a part of an eccentric team of criminologists.
Continuum (TV)
Shooting: March 25 to May 22
Starring: Rachel Nichols
Plot: A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future.
Deadpool (film)
Shooting: March 23 to May 29
Starring: Ryan Reynolds
Plot: Spin-off to ‘X-Men’ films
Director: Tim Miller
Fear the Walking Dead (TV)
Shooting: Spring and summer
Starring: Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam Carey
Plot: A family struggles for survival during a zombie apocalypse. Spin-off of ‘The Walking Dead’
The Flash (TV)
Shooting: July 11, 2014 to April 10, 2015, season 2 expected to shoot beginning in July
Starring: Grant Guston
Plot: The adventures of Barry Allen, a man with special powers, including super speed.
Once Upon a Time (TV)
Shooting: July 9, 2014 to April 2, 2015, season 5 expected to shoot beginning in July
Starring: Ginnifer Goodwin, Jennifer Morrison
Plot: A woman with a troubled past is drawn to a town in Maine (Vancouver) where fairy tales are to be believed.
The B.F.G. (film)
Shooting: March 23 to June 16
Starring: Ruby Barnhill, Mark Rylance
Plot: Sophie, an orphan girl is taken away one evening by the Big Friendly Giant and brought to the his home – a place populated by blood-thirsty giants.
Director: Steven Spielberg
The 100 (TV)
Starring: Eliza Taylor, Bob Morley, Isaiah Washington
Plot: 100 juvenile delinquents are brought back to earth 97 years after a nuclear war destroyed civilization.
Supernatural (TV)
Shooting: June 17, 2014 to April 21, 2015, season 11 expected to shoot beginning in June
Starring: Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles
Plot: Two brothers fight evil ‘supernatural’ monsters.
Shut In (film)
Shooting: March 30 to April 24
Starring: Naomi Watts, Oliver Platt
Plot: A woman discovers a terrifying secret about her troubled son.
Director: Farren Blackburn
The Girl in the Photographs (TV)
Shooting: April 20 to May 16
Starring: Unknown
Plot: Inspired by Wes Craven’s ‘Scream’, brought into the world of fashion
Producer: Wes Craven
Director: Nick Simon
Army of One (film)
Shooting: March 30 to May 22
Starring: Nicholas Cage
Plot: Gary Faulkner’s story of single-handedly hunting down Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan.
Director: Larry Charles (Borat)
Star Trek 3 (film)
Shooting: June 1 to September
Starring: Zoe Saldana, Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
Director: Justin Lin
Impastor (TV)
Shooting: Summer
Starring: Michael Rosenbaum
Plot: A gambling addict slacker ends up stealing the identity of a gay pastor in a local small-town community in order to go on the run from a loan shark.
X-Files (TV)
Shooting: Summer
Director: Chris Carter
List by Connect Casting Workbook