Did you ever stroll through London and found yourself in the middle of a film set? (Didn’t find the production code)

by florian-sdr

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  1. I think this is the new Chronicles of Narnia film series for Netflix.

  4. The Magicians Nephew directed by Greta Gerwig. It’s a Narnia prequel I believe.

  5. I’ve never walked into one but I remember walking past the end of Fournier Street one lunchtime and seeing it dressed for filming, including a horse-drawn carriage and Charles Dance wearing the biggest top hat I’ve ever seen.

    Edit: On looking this up it would have been during the making of The BBC’s ‘The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby’, which came out in 2001.

  7. Back on my first ever job on a film set I remember helping Patrick Stewart out of his car in full medieval costume and being absolutely gobsmacked at the amount of commuters who walked past us and didn’t even bat an eyelid.

  8. No, but I stumbled upon the filming of Law and Order in New York a few years ago.

  9. Last year in April we came across a filming of some christmassy film or whatever. There was a choir in front of St Mark’s Church Clerkenwell singing Christmas Carols.
    I wish I knew for what it was.

  10. That fence doesn’t look that dangerous. I could probably take it.

  11. Yes, I was going back from shopping and I found a filming crueltd right outside of my

  12. I was in the City when they were filming one of the Thor films one summer. A crew member told me the working title was Thursday Mourning, and I was able to Google it and figure out what it was.

  13. They filmed a couple of episodes of the Crown on the uni campus I work at – it was when Diana visited the hospital so everyone was in ‘90s wear’. I remember thinking ‘did we really dress like that in the 90s? I was a kid but man it looked dated

  14. Last month, I came back home from a morning hospital appointment it found a crew filming right outside of my estate. The scene was set up on the pavement, small car park in front, and by the entrance.

    I literally poked one of their men in high visibility jacket to ask how do I get inside. He said there is filming in progress and there is no way to go through now and I have to go around somehow.

    I said ‘but this is the entrance to the flats’ to which he said ‘oh, you are a resident, right?’. He then stopped the scene shouting they have to let a resident through. Everyone cleared the way so I can walk in. He walled with me repeating loudly to everyone around us ‘I’ve got a resident/resident passing through” lol

  15. A few years ago for a mates stag, we were around St. Pauls somewhere and stumbled across a period film set. Naturally everything around the set was 40s themed and my mate, the stag was wearing a fluorescent yellow mankini.

  16. london only looks this nice when its in fiction lmao, does anyone else find this funny

  17. Maybe 8 years ago, I took a walk around the Isle of Dogs and through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel to the Old Royal Naval College. There were a whole lot of people with cameras and (hopefully fake) guns. I asked a security guard what they were filming and he basically told me to piss off.

  18. Are they going to add the dangerous fence in post-production or something?

    Because those are unlocked doors

  20. One hungover morning I step out my back door to stumble to the corner shop… and found myself surrounded by zombies, chilling out, smoking cigs, sitting on kerbs. Smoke billowing down the street. It was a tad confusing in my hungover state.

    I’d walked into the set for the flamethrower scene from 28 weeks later 🤣

  21. OMG yes! Accidentally wandered into the set for Johnny English outside the Four Seasons.

    They had it cordoned off but I’m so used to walking through that street I just went through a gap in the barrier because I was vaguely aware there were people inside. I was bang in the middle of an open space before I realized something was up, and when I saw the cameras I got that “oh shit” moment that I wasn’t where I was supposed to be. I bumbled around for a bit until I found an exit on the other side

  22. Walked through the set of The King’s Speech in Greenwich back in the day, and right past Colin Firth. Good god he was even more handsome in person. Nearly fainted.

  23. It’s commonplace in the area around Lancaster Gate and I assume in every area with listed buildings. It would be much more common if shooting in London wasn’t so expensive — people just love period pieces.

  25. Damn those costumes look on point

    I’ll question the reality of what timeline I’m living, for a moment, if I passed them 😂

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