Maybe some vampires really can live in the shadows.
Apparently, Tom Hiddleston recently told a reporter he was set to arrive in Detroit this week to begin filming Only Lovers Left Alive, a new movie about two vampires who have been in love for centuries. But there’s just one problem, there doesn’t seem to be any other evidence the movie has actually started shooting.
In the past few days we’ve have dozens of readers contact us demanding to know where exactly the movie is filming in Detroit, only we can’t any proof the movie is even filming yet, let alone where.
Here’s what do know, the film is set in Detroit and Tangiers and will be filmed in Michigan, Western Germany, and Morocco this summer. Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, and Tilda Swinton will star in Only Lovers which, according to various industry sources, isn’t’t expected to begin shooting until mid-July.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the movie’s director, Jim Jarmusch, was spotted in Detroit yesterday where he has been “looking at southeast Michigan locations.” They also note that filming will only last “a week or two” in Michigan, and that the film has not yet been approved for the state’s tax incentive.
We contacted Detroit Film hoping to get more information, but they were unfamiliar with the project. We also reached out to the Michigan Film Office and the movie’s production company but our requests for info were not answered.
And, as of now, it doesn’t look like there has been any casting calls or crew calls published online.
So, if the movie is already filming in Michigan as so many of our readers have heard, they are doing a really good job keeping it under wraps. It is more likely Only Lovers will begin filming in a few weeks as was originally reported.
If you have any information about Only Lovers Left Alive and when or where they might be filming in Detroit, please let us know at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
UPDATE: We did hear back from the Michigan Film Office and they confirmed the movie’s application was pending and, as far as they knew, Only Lovers is currently in pre-production.
I think it’s true. Tom’s tweet yesterday had the hashtag #Detroit
According to a German Website of a foundation that sponsors the whole film they are supposed (!) to be shooting between 9th July and 30th August in Detroit, Morocco and Germany but maybe they started early or they’re preparing for it?
Yes, I also think it’s true!
If you read my update, they are in pre-production, not actually filming yet.
A friend of mine got a call to work on this for dates end of June through mid-july…it was an on-set gig. *shrug*
gonna go join the casting calls for extras and such when they post it online! Tom is my favorite actor and I have such a huge admiration for him!
Where are you going to find the casting call?
WOTS: shooting starts Thursday
I talked to someone in local film office and she said Mon is start, where did you hear Thurs? thanks!
Western Germany? What? Where?
Any idea where in DTW the filming will be or how to be an extra???? Gonna be there from TX and would love to go to filiming
Yep, Tom H. was sighted in Detroit juts the other day. There’s youtube footage of fans meeting him, in which I am painful absent. _sigh_
*painfully (can’t type)
They are filming on my block. Alfred St. and Woodward. I’m looking at them right now.
I owe you my life, Tony! THANK YOU!!!!!
thank you so much for the info Tony!!
Any other locations in the U.S. that ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ will be filmed at?
Are they still there?
Yes
Just Google Earth Alfred St and Woodard Ave and found the perfect old boarded up gothic house at 16 Edmund Place…total speculation but WTH.
Last night my husband spotted a film crew filming on Jefferson in Detroit. Not sure what movie it was for but there was a white car that was racing off over the bridge.
thanks Tony
well tom is in germany now so…..