Downtown Vancouver streets shut down for 'graphic' Stephen King shoot

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Parts of downtown Vancouver underwent a gruesome transformation over the past weekend, as filming took place for The Stand, a new horror movie based on a novel written by Stephen King.

The book was released by King in 1978 and features a post-apocalyptic world where 99% of the population is wiped out. From there, the survivors struggle to rebuild what’s left of civilization.

Naturally, the City of Vancouver warned the public on Twitter, explaining that parts of downtown would be decorated with “highly-visible graphic content” such as “dead bodies, trash, and debris.”

Filming was also said to include explicit language and gunfire, and passersby were told not to be alarmed.

Today & tomorrow there will be filming taking place in Downtown (400 block of Seymour St) which involves highly visible graphic content including dead bodies, trash & debris, shouting of coarse language & gunfire. Please do not be alarmed if you’re in the area. #CityofVancouver

— City of Vancouver (@CityofVancouver) October 26, 2019

A number of Vancouverites were able to capture glimpses of the filming and shared the downtown streets in post-apocalyptic form:

#NewYork in #Vancouver #⁦@WhatsFilming⁩ pic.twitter.com/xmHNzNGg6C

— 李麗芳 | Helen Lee (@hleeliu2018) October 27, 2019

When things are so slow in Hawaii that your friend in Vancouver sends you footage of them filming The Stand. Anyone recognize the actors? @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/TGqtTs5wVo

— Reel News Hawaii (@reelnewshawaii) October 27, 2019

@WhatsFilming @yvrshoots #HeatherGraham #StephenKing #TheStand Somemore action going on the set of the show. The Stand pic.twitter.com/4Mhi3BFJgU

— NewWestBoy (@66mitchell) October 27, 2019

@WhatsFilming @yvrshoots crazy drone action going on the set of #TheStand #StephenKing #HeatherGraham pic.twitter.com/kEvzOsyMzD

— NewWestBoy (@66mitchell) October 27, 2019

@WhatsFilming @yvrshoots #TheStand #StephenKing #Drone Some drone filming going on the set today. Filming a chase scene along the cars, after most people have died on planet Earth 🌎 pic.twitter.com/QB85tMPpyY

— NewWestBoy (@66mitchell) October 27, 2019

@WhatsFilming @yvrshoots Downtown Vancouver city blocks closed off has become New York movie
The Stand apparently all day Sunday also filming pic.twitter.com/IKnKnm9xWO

— chuck hall (@ChuckHall22) October 27, 2019

Downtown getting in an apocalyptic and New York state of mind for The Stand. #bcfilm #yvrshoots #vancouver #StephenKing #TheStand @WhatsFilming @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/rDXRnqCP6s

— doppelvancouver 🛸 (@doppelvancouver) October 26, 2019

#TheStand (?) filming in Vancouver ~ @WhatsFilming @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/mDKA31WVUx

— Maki (@mariimakii) October 25, 2019

Prep work underway in downtown Vancouver (Howe & Pender). Street is transformed into New York City for a chaotic postapocalyptic scene involving traffic mayhem as part of a new film version of Stephen King’s ‘The Stand’ starring Whoopi Goldberg. @yvrshoots @YVRFilming #TheStand pic.twitter.com/MPWgt4Ry79

— Jim Genac (@Jim_Genac) October 26, 2019

Be sure to keep an eye out as well, because it may not be the last time Vancouver gets a graphic makeover. According to What’s Filming, production for The Stand runs from now until March 2020.

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