Land Of The Dead | 2005
- DIRECTOR |
- George A Romero
Discover the filming locations for the fourth of George A Romero's Dead series, around Toronto, Ontario.
The first film following Romero's famous trilogy is nominally set in 'Pittsburgh' but this time was filmed, with much higher production values than the director has had before, around Toronto, Ontario.
The vast arched atrium of the elites' luxury refuge 'Fiddler's Green' is the six-story Allen Lambert Galleria, part of Brookfield Place, an office complex in downtown Toronto on the block bounded by Yonge Street, Wellington Street West, Bay Street, and Front Street.
The galleria was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who was also responsible for the Quadracci Pavilion of Milwaukee Art Museum, featured in 2011's Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Pittsburgh is, like Manhattan, accessed by many bridges but the bascule bridge, encountered by the giant armoured vehicle 'Dead Reckoning', is Cherry Street Bridge (more formally the Cherry Street Strauss Trunnion Bascule Bridge) carrying Cherry Street across the Toronto Harbour Ship Channel in the Port Lands district, southeast of downtown Toronto.
It looks far less threatening when seen from a different angle in 1983 seasonal favourite A Christmas Story.
And did you notice the cheeky cameos by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright – star and director of Shaun Of The Dead – as the two manacled zombies being used as a backdrop for selfies?
