Hollywood productions are ramping up in Vancouver and that means plenty of big-name celebrities are in town.
From a Suits spinoff to HBO’s Season 2 of The Last Of Us and a new film starring Reacher actor Alan Ritchson, many shows and films are shooting in British Columbia in March.
Here are 10 big productions that are underway now or about to get started and which celebs you may see around town while they’re filming.
Playdate
Alan Ritchson will be heading from the Reacher set in Toronto to Vancouver to work on his latest project.
According to Hollywood North Buzz, the film Playdate is about two stay-at-home dads who are on a playdate with their kids when things take a turn and they spend the rest of the day trying to “solve a conspiracy” and not get killed.
Ritchson is slated to star alongside Kevin James in the action film.
No other cast has been announced at this point. The film will be directed by Luke Greenfield.
Filming is scheduled to wrap up production in mid-April.
Suits: LA
A Suits spin-off is starting production in Vancouver in late March.
Arrow actor Stephen Amell will be the lead actor in Suits: L.A., which is an “extension of the Suits universe,” according to Deadline.
The NBC spinoff will follow a character named Ted Black, who is a “former federal prosecutor from New York who has reinvented himself representing the most powerful clients in Los Angeles.”
Deadline reports the show is “not a reboot or revival but a brand extension” of Suits.
Several people who worked on the original Suits show, which aired from 2011-2019, will be working on this new spinoff, including Aaron Korsh who was the creator and writer of the series.
Many Suits fans may be wondering if any original cast members will be appearing in the new show, and it looks like it could happen.
In February 2024, Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams told The Hollywood Reporter they hadn’t been asked to be a part of the new show yet. However, that doesn’t mean they’re not open to bringing their characters of Harvey and Mike back.
“I mean I think it’s in a world where some characters could in fact come [back],” Macht told THR.
No premiere date for Suits: LA has been announced yet.
Firebug
Taron Egerton at the 13 Governors Awards in California on November 19, 2022.
A new Apple TV+ series starring Rocketman actor Taron Egerton titled Firebug will begin filming in Vancouver in March.
Variety reports the show will be based on a “troubled detective and an enigmatic arson investigator (played by Egerton) as they pursue the trails of two serial arsonists.”
The outlet adds the series is inspired by some true events which were shared in a podcast with the same name (Firebug).
No other cast members have been announced.
Happy Face
Dennis Quaid will be in Vancouver to work on his latest project, a Paramount+ series Happy Face.
The new series will tell the story of Melissa Jesperson-Moore (played by Annaleigh Ashford), who at age 15 discovered her father Keith Hunter Jesperson (played by Quaid), was a serial murderer known as the Happy Face killer, according to an IMDb description of the show.
The series is inspired by a podcast of the same name, the real-life story of Melissa Moore, and Moore’s autobiography Shattered Silence, as perThe Hollywood Reporter.
The eight-episode first season is scheduled to premiere on Paramount+ in 2025, Variety reports.
The Last of Us Season 2
Season 2 of the HBO seriesThe Last Of Us has begun filming in Vancouver.
New cast member Isabela Merced, who will be starring as Dina, briefly mentioned her time on set and what it’s been like filming alongside Bella Ramsey during an interview with Entertainment Tonight.
“I already did one day of shooting, it was technically day 0, but the chemistry that Bella and I have is so so palpable and it’s really nice to be able to work with someone like that,” Merced said at the time.
Schitt’s Creek actress Catherine O’Hara, Kaitlyn Dever and Young Mazino will be joining Merced as new cast members this season.
On February 19, one of the show’s lead stars, Pedro Pascal was spotted in Vancouver.
Season 1 of the show was filmed around Alberta and in 2023 it was announced Season 2 would be moving its production to B.C.
Tron: Ares
Jared Leto, Gillian Anderson, Greta Lee, Evan Peters, and Jodie Turner-Smith are all in Vancouver filming the third film in the Tron sci-fi franchise called Tron: Ares.
According to Deadline, the film will follow Ares (played by Leto) who is a fictional character that crosses over from the world of video games to planet Earth.
The Tron franchise began in 1982 when the first film starring Jeff Bridges came out. Bridges starred as video game creator Kevin Flynn who gets transported into the digital world.
Tron: Legacy then follows Flynn’s son Sam (played by Garrett Hedlund) who gets pulled into the same digital world where his father has been trapped for 20 years.
Production on Tron: Ares has faced some delays due to the SAG-AFTRA strike and is now scheduled to wrap up in May.
Virgin River Season 6
The cast of Virgin River is back in B.C. working on Season 6 of the Netflix show.
On February 22, the Virgin River Instagram page shared a photo of Alexandra Breckenridge who plays Mel Monroe and Martin Henderson who plays Jack Sheridan.
“It’s official! Virgin River season 6 is back in production!” the post reads.
In mid-February, Breckenridge and Zibby Allen who plays Brie Sheridan, posted a photo together after arriving in B.C.
“Hello loves, we are here in our Vancouver apartment getting ready to make some television,” Breckenridge said in her Instagram stories at the time.
“I had a wardrobe fitting this morning for three hours. So hopefully we’ve found something to wear. I think we did […] There will be some new looks and maybe some throwback looks to last year.”
The show also stars Tim Matheson and Ben Hollingsworth.
Seasons 1 to 5, which were also filmed in B.C., are available on Netflix.
The Monkey
Theo James at the White Lotus Season Two Premiere Screening in October 2022.
Theo James is starring in the horror film The Monkey, which is based on a short story by Stephen King, according to Deadline.
The outlet says the film will follow twin brothers Hal and Bill who find their dad’s old monkey toy in the attic. Following that discovery, a series of “gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them.” Deadline says the brothers toss away the toy and grow apart. They’re later reunited after “mysterious deaths” start happening again.
Other cast members of the film have not been announced.
Family Law Season 4
The stars of the Canadian legal drama Family Law will be back in Vancouver in March filming 10 new episodes for Season 4.
The show follows a group of “flawed family members” who work together at their father’s law firm in downtown Vancouver.
It stars Victor Garber, Jewel Staite, Zach Smadu, Lauren Holly and Genelle Williams.
The Season 3 premiere will be announced later this year, according to Corus.
The Recruit Season 2
The stars of the Netflix show The Recruit are in Vancouver working on Season 2.
The series stars Noah Centineo, Fivel Stewart, Angel Parker, Laura Haddock, Kaylah Zander, and Byron Mann.
In the series, Centineo stars as Owen Hendricks, a lawyer at the CIA who gets mixed up in a serious case when a former asset threatens to “expose the nature of her long-term relationship with the agency,” as per the IMDb description.
The cast has been sharing photos on social media of their hangouts in Vancouver since they began filming in January.
Netflix hasn’t announced when Season 2 will premiere.
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