The security fences are down in Aldergrove as Bates Motel prepares to start filming its fifth and final season in metro Vancouver this month. After the show wraps early next year, this iconic Bates House and Motel set will be torn down.
Mother-and-son Norma (Vera Farmiga) and Norman (Freddie Highmore) Bates in happier times.
Last season in the penultimate episode Forever, Norman killed his mother in what he thought would be permanent carbon-monoxide-induced sleep for both, but he unexpectedly survived. In total denial and desperate to get her back, he dug up her corpse and brought Norma home. Mother will live on in season five, but only in Norman’s head.
This is the Norman we know from Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 film Psycho. And so it’s appropriate in the final season that the series introduces its version of Marion Crane played by pop star Rihanna (who’s also cast in the all-female Ocean’s 8). In Psycho, Crane checks into the motel and is killed by Norman-as-Mother in the shower.
How will Marion Crane differ in the series?
And which room will she check into?
Rihanna fans should know that the house and motel room interiors (including showers) are filmed in studio.
Romero (Nestor Carbonell) on his way to White Pine Bay, aka Vancouver.
On route to season 5, Norma- pulled some strings. Renamed the blessed bypass @InsideBates @VeraFarmiga @KerryEhrin pic.twitter.com/0PSiH4YjXz
— Nestor Carbonell (@CarbonellNestor) September 11, 2016
Don’t think they were filming but didn’t know that this place was 10 minutes away from my house @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/iJ325DmYTS
— Kate Creighton (@CKate013) September 17, 2016
Drove to see the Bates Motel today. Apparently it’s filmed in Aldergrove. @yvrshoots pic.twitter.com/LuaWHIyaVn
— Jeffery Simpson (@JefferySimpson) September 12, 2016
Under wraps during hiatus.
@yvrshoots Kinda glad I got a pic before filming, probably wouldn’t get close during filming. The fence was there. pic.twitter.com/R5WLnQnwwm
— Galavant warrior (@GigglerT_13) September 12, 2016
Bates Motel is expected to start filming its fifth and final season on September 16th in metro Vancouver and wrap January 24th next year (dates subject to change).