Hello Atlantis
Published: August
30, 2008 12:00 PM
Updated: August 30, 2008 11:12 PM
Shooting begins this week in Kamloops and region on a major motion picture.
With a budget said to be more
than $200 million, the Sony Pictures production Farewell Atlantis, also
known as 2012 in preproduction, may be one of the most expensive films ever
made in Canada — if not the most expensive.
The film’s crew arrives in Kamloops on Monday.
Filming will take place in Kamloops for the first two or three days before
shooting moves to the Cache Creek area for about two weeks.
Directed by Ronald Emmerich, the man who made films such as Independence
Day and Godzilla, Farewell Atlantis is based on Whitley Strieber’s novel
about a group of people struggling with the disastrous end of the world as
predicted by the Mayan calendar.
According to the calendar, the
Mayans believed the world would end on Dec. 21, 2012 and that a cataclysm would herald doomsday.
One of the first big projects to
hit the market since the three-month writers’ strike, the disaster movie,
starring John Cusack, Thandie
Newton, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Woody
Harrelson, Thomas McCarthy, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Oliver Platt, is scheduled to hit theatres
in 2009.
Extras were cast locally earlier
this summer.
Other major films shot in and
around Kamloops include Shooter, The Sisterhood of the
Traveling Pants, Firewall, An Unfinished Life and Cadence.
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