Incongruously there is actually no room inside for anything but stage space, forcing the various departments (costume, props, etc.) outside into the blustery Irish weather. It’s also still very early into its second life City of Ember is the first film to be shot here made all the more apparent by the circus-like array of tents surrounding it. The rest were all destroyed by German bombers, which actually makes me wonder a bit about the quality of the bombardiers’ eyesight, because good God, how could you miss this thing? It’s like some giant’s tool shed. In fact, it’s one of only two buildings used in the construction that survived World War II. And it has to be, because before its second life as a sound stage, this was part of the complex where they built the Titanic (and yes, the Olympic and Britannic, but let’s be honest, no one really cares about them). Its indecent bordering on vulgar how big it is. It takes fifteen minutes of walking towards it before you realize it’s half a mile away, because it already fills your field of view. But, on top of the boats and cranes and seagulls (lots and lots of them), the shipyards also have the one thing the filmmakers had to have to bring the City of Ember to life the largest sound stage on Earth.
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To the Harland & Wolff shipyards to be precise, which doesn’t initially seem like the place you’d go to make any sort of movie that wasn’t about boats, and certainly not a big budget fantasy film.
So, from inside its author’s head in Menlo Park, California, the story of the people of Ember has come across the pond to Belfast, in Northern Ireland.
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