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Latest 10 Jul 2024
News Story
It's a big one this month, with SEVEN new productions filming in London! Some of the world's best actors have descended on the capital to kick-off new productions for iconic franchises such as Knives Out and Jurassic Park. Stars like Josh O'Connor, Olivia Colman, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Olivia Cooke, Ryan Gosling and many more are now filming in London on new projects ranging from new sci-fi blockbusters to political thrillers. Find out all about these below in our monthly feature focused on filming in London...
We're starting big this month, as we bring you news that a a fourth Jurassic Park sequel is now in production in London! The untitled fourth film is now filming at Sky Studios Elstree and will follow 2022's Jurassic World: Dominion. We can't wait for another blockbuster trip through Jurassic Park's pre-historic minefield of frights and thrills. Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, The Creator) is set to direct the next instalment of the franchise with cast announcements yet to be confirmed.
Another fan-favourite franchise is returning to our screens as a new Knives Out feature is currently filming in London! Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery is the third film in Rian Johnson's endlessly entertaining series. Daniel Craig is set to return as the exuberant detective, Benoit Blanc. Johnson will once again pull out all the stops for his next murder mystery with an incredible cast featuring: Josh O'Connor, Cailee Spaeny, Glenn Close, Mila Kunis, Josh Brolin and many more stars who'll be thrown into a new web of secrets and bloodied plot twists.
British acting royalty Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch star in our next feature filming in London this month. The Roses is a remake of Danny DeVito's 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses, which featured Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in the lead roles. Colman and Cumberbatch's re-imagining of this turbulent marriage will see the couple push their cosy, bourgeois co-existence, down a spiral of hatred, competition and divorce. It may sound intense, but at the heart of Jay Roach's (Bombshell) new film are deeply human sentiments, underpinned by a raucous script from Poor Things screenwriter Tony McNamara. This sounds like it could be one for the awards season already!
Ryan Gosling joins the A-list group of actors filming in London this July as production begins on the new sci-fi drama Project Hail Mary. Featuring Sandra Huller, the Amazon MGM Studios production is currently filming in the capital with a script from The Martian screenwriter Andy Weir. Gosling plays Ryland Grace, a lone survivor of a mission across the universe to save the Earth from near-certain destruction. Grace wakes up millions of miles away from home with his memory completely wiped, and two strange beings for company. We can't wait to see how this story unfolds...
Up next, another exciting espionage drama is filming in London. The Agency is a new political thriller starring Jeffrey Wright and Michael Fassbender based on the hit French series "Le Bureau des Legendes" on Canal+. With Paramount+ leading this new series, we're eager to see Wright and Fassbender navigate the the deadly stakes at the heart of global espionage. 10 episodes will be penned for the show in which Fassbinder plays Martian, a CIA agent suddenly recalled from undercover duty in London, as a former romance reignites a battle between his true identity and the carefully knitted life he has created as a spy.
Production has also started in London on The Girlfriend, a new film directed by and starring the brilliant Robin Wright. Based on the novel of the same name, Wright stars as a mother whose life is disrupted by her son's new suspicious girlfriend played by Olivia Cooke. The series is another big production filming in London for Amazon MGM Studios and we're looking forward to seeing this family thriller come to the screen!
Finally, rounding off this month's packed list of productions filming in London is Fuze, a new heist thriller starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson. From director David Mackenzie, Fuze is set in the capital and sees the threat of an unexploded World War Two bomb distract the authorities from an ongoing high stakes robbery elsewhere in the city. With the two menacing threats forcing widespread panic, expect a tense ride with this new production!
Other notable productions currently filming on location and/or in studio include: Slow Horses season 5 - Hit espionage series following a motley-crew of MI5 spy-rejects. Led by the indomitable Gary Oldman. Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part Two - Tom Cruise returns for eighth film in the franchise as Ethan Hunt seeks to destroy the apocalyptically dangerous AI software known as 'The Entity'. Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy - Fourth Bridget Jones film with Renée Zellweger. We'll meet Bridget again in her fifties, widowed, with two kids, and once again thrown off course by Hugh Grant's Daniel Cleaver. Downton Abbeysequel - The globally-recognised dynastic period drama will pick up where 2022's Downton Abbey: A New Era left off in the late 1920s.
London On-Screen
Coming to Sky TV this month is new comedy Mr Bigstuff starring Danny Dyer. The original series is penned by Ryan Sampson (Brassic, Plebs) who also stars alongside Dyer, forming a pair of estranged brothers who must navigate toxic family relationships amidst a battle with their own fragile masculine shells. Check out the trailer for this outrageous new comedy here!
Next, get down to cinemas for A Quiet Place: Day One! The prequel to the popular horror franchise stars Lupita Nyong'o, Joseph Quinn and Djimon Hounsou and is actually set in New York where the franchise's critical moment takes place: the invasion of the alien 'Death Angels'. Filming took place on location in Charring Cross, London as well as Warner Brothers. Studios in Leavesden. The blockbuster thriller is out in cinemas now!
The epic Deadpool & Wolverine is also hitting cinema screens this month! The long-awaited return of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman's iconic superheroes is finally here and we can't wait to see how the unlikely duo fair as a team to defeat their mutual enemy. The latest Marvel blockbuster also introduces Emma Corrin as Cassandra Nova and Jennifer Garner as Elektra. The feature filmed in London and on stage space at Pinewood Studios. Don't miss the excitement and catch Deadpool and Wolverine in cinemas from July 25.
