Kat Coiro is nominated for a Directors Guild of America (DGA) award for helming the premiere of the BC-filmed fantasy series The Spiderwick Chronicles.
Based on the bestselling books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, The Spiderwick Chronicles follows the Grace Family—twin brothers Jared (Lyon Daniels) and Simon (Noah Cottrell), their sister Mallory (Mychala Lee) and mother Helen (Joy Bryant)—as they move into their dilapidated ancestral home and begin to unravel a dark mystery about their great-great Uncle Arthur Spiderwick who once discovered the secret and maybe foreboding faerie world existing parallel to their own.
Dr. Dorian Brauer (Christian Slater) is really an evil ogre Mulgarath in disguise, who wants to steal Arthur Spiderwick’s Field Guide to the Natural World to become more powerful.
The premiere Welcome to Spiderwick features the exterior of the iconic and scary Arthur Spiderwick house in Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park.
The Spiderwick Chronicles set at Deer Lake is gettin’ spooooky 👻 … check out the gate! If it didn’t feel like summer, it might be scarier … #TheSpiderwickChronicles @yvrshoots @WhatsFilming pic.twitter.com/1ZBmJk88ek
— CathDoll (@cathdoll1) October 6, 2022
The Gate:
And some scenes with Christian Slater’s Dr. Brauer filmed in Fort Langley.
Related: BC-Filmed The Spiderwick Chronicles Won’t Stream on Disney+. Will Be Shopped.
Production on the originally-intended-for-Disney series wrapped in Vancouver in February 2023. The Roku channel bought the American rights and the series premiered April 19th 2024 in the U.S..
The Spiderwick Chronicles:
Episodes: 8.
Vancouver filming dates: September 12 2022 – February 03 2023.
Showrunner: Aron Eli Coleite
Cast: Christian Slater, Lyon Daniels, Noah Cottrell, Mychala Lee, Joy Bryant, Adina Insley,.
Producers: 20th Television, Paramount Television Studios.