The trailer for The Social Reckoning, the sequel to the Social Network, makes pretty extensive use of SFU. A Caribbean bar was also built on Third Beach in Stanley Park, and the stars have been spotted around town.
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Weirdest of all, the January 6th uprising was re-staged downtown. A Reddit poster caught some pictures of the filming on the Art Gallery steps:
Is Social Reckoning going to be a good movie? Social Network, like Moneyball, has no business being as interesting and fun as it is. Part of that is David Fincher’s directing, but it owes a lot to Aaron Sorkin’s script.
Instead of Fincher, Sorkin himself is directing the sequel. I like most of the films Sorkin has directed—Molly’s Game and Trial of the Chicago 7 aren’t visually stunning, but they work. They’re solid mid-budget dramas for adults, which don’t get made very often anymore.
Social Reckoning is one of the last films I managed to squeeze into Shot in Vancouver, along with Castration Movie Anthology, Remarkably Bright Creatures, and the upcoming Carrie and God of War series.
With the book in edits, I’m still discovering films and series made here. Like Two for the Money, a film about sports betting starring Matthew McConaughey and Al Pacino.
McConaughey plays a washed up football star who’s a genius at picking football winners. He’s recruited by Pacino, who runs a network of sports betting touts in New York. In return for their picks, people pay them a percentage of their winnings.
Armand Assante plays a mob boss based in Puerto Rico, though his scenes were filmed in English Bay. And the JFK airport has a lot of direct flights to Calgary and Edmonton…
Two For the Money was written by Nightcrawler’s Dan Gilroy. It’s a much stranger movie than you’d expect. Mostly because Pacino keeps trying to set McConaughey up with his wife, played by Rene Russo. A psychosexual drama that’s also about sports betting!
Like a lot of Shot in Vancouver films, they match scenes actually shot in New York with stuff shot locally —The Jason Takes Manhattan Approach. So you see the stars walking down a Manhattan sidewalk, and then they’re inside, talking to actors who were on X-Files and Da Vinci’s Inquest.
That’s not the only approach—there’s the “shoot the film without hiding anything Vancouver-y and just pretend it doesn’t matter” approach, the “shoot everything locally but use establishing shots of Seattle or LA” approach, the “set it here but make it an American city with the same name” approach…I could go on.
But you should pre-order Shot In Vancouver, out this October, which has multiple examples of all of these.
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