WTF is ‘City of Ember’ with Bill Murray?
I’m sure this news has been bandied around forever, but seems to have slipped under my radar (as so many things do) but a new film starring Bill Murray is currently filming in Belfast called ‘City of Ember’… here’s the plot synopsis:
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember’s once powerful generator is failing … and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city’s existence, and help the citizens escape before the lights go out forever.
Its apparantly based on a popular childrens book (a popular source for movies nowadays) and sounds a lot like a Jeunet Film to me. There’s a really interesting set report over at IGN…
“IGN observed days 58 and 59 of shooting in Belfast. The remarkable sets were constructed at the Harland and Wolff paint hall in the Titanic Quarter of Belfast, where the doomed RMS Titanic was painted after being constructed in the shipyard right outside. This industrial location, found after a worldwide search, afforded the filmmakers 90-foot tall ceilings for them to build a fully functional city for the film. This is not your usual movie set, but rather a village of two-and-three-story buildings with actual apartments and stores built inside them for filming…”
sounds pretty fucking epic, read the full report here
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