As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been keeping up on most of the movie set travel/travel inspiration stuff over at my “day job” on Jaunted.com. Here’s a look at what I’ve been up to:
Last week, Michael Cera told Jimmy Fallon all about the abandoned train station he toured while filming Youth in Revolt in Detroit. “We went in the abandoned train station, which you know about, we went in it, it was one of the scariest…There’s this train station in Detroit that was designed by the guy that did Grand Central, y’know, that guy,” he explained. “So its a beautiful structure and like, huge, but its been abandoned since ’85 or something so its just filled with rubble and broken windows and we were in there because we were with a local who had gone in there since he was a kid, and well, we were in there we heard gun shots. So it sounded like the gun shots were coming from the bottom of the staircase we were descending and it was terrifying, but I think they were actually outside. So someone got shot and it was terrifying.” Then he added the disclaimer: “don’t go there, its not a tourist attraction or anything.” That’s all I needed to hear to know that was someplace I definitely have to go!
Unless you’ve been in a coma or prison, you’ve probably seen, or know someone who has seen, Avatar. And, even though the movie was mostly filmed in a studio, James Cameron did bring some of the cast to Hawaii to rehearse in a real jungle.
In Everybody’s Fine, Robert De Niro travels around the country visiting his kids after his wife passes away. But, in real life De Niro didn’t travel around the country at all. Instead, he spent the summer of ’08 in Connecticut, the real filming location for the movie.
Cirque du Freak may have bombed in the box office but when it comes to travel inspiration there were few films that were better last year. The movie was filmed in New Orleans and paid homage to the relationship between that city and vampire mythology.
The world of Where The Wild Things Are seems so far away, and it was, for most of us. The movie was filmed on location outside of Melbourne Australia in Bushrangers Bay in Victoria and among the and among the boulders of the You-Yangs.
You can follow all of Jaunted’s Movie Set Travel Coverage here.
