Deadpool & Wolverine | 2024
- Locations |
- Buckinghamshire;
- Norfolk
- DIRECTOR |
- Shawn Levy
The first two Deadpool movies were filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, but Deadpool & Wolverine was largely based at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, and it's in the UK that you'll find most, if not all of the practical locations.
To maintain a kind of visual continuity, 'Vancouver' street scenes were filmed on a studio set built at Pinewood in Buckinghamshire.
It's not far from the studio to the snowy forest where Deadpool searches for what's left of Wolverine.
It's Black Park Country Park on Black Park Road between Slough and Iver Heath, conveniently right alongside Pinewood Studios.
As such, Black Park has been a kind of unofficial wooded backlot in countless productions – including such British institutions as the Bond movies, the Harry Potter series, Carry On... and Hammer films, as well as Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker, Witchfinder General and many more.
'The Void', the barren dumping ground at the end of time, was filmed in Pitstone Quarry, Upper Icknield Way on the Buckinghamshire-Hertfordshire border near Pitstone, a couple of miles north of the market town of Tring. Blue screen was used to mask the surrounding trees and countryside. The chalk quarry (that's why it's so ideally white and dead-looking) is currently private land but there are plans to open a nature reserve here.
Pitstone was previously seen as the rock quarry-prison camp in Sean Mathias's 1997 film of Martin Sherman's harrowing play Bent, about the Nazi persecution of homosexuals, starring Clive Owen, Lothaire Bluteau and Ian McKellen (who had appeared as the lead in the original stage production).
The expansive sand dunes, where the pair encounter Dogpool, is Holkham Beach, part of the Holkham Hall estate, three miles west of Wells-next-the-Sea on the A149 on the north coast of Norfolk.
The same beach is featured in Mark Romanek's 2010 film of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel Never Let Me Go, with Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley and it's where Gwyneth Paltrow is washed up after the shipwreck in the final scene of 1998 Oscar-winner Shakespeare In Love.
