Where is Dakota Johnson filming?
She’s out in Coquitlam at the Main Street set for the 1960s California town in Drew Goddard’s noir thriller Bad Times at the El Royale.
What’s the movie about?
A cast of characters collide violently at the El Royale, a run-down hotel in the 1960s near California’s Lake Tahoe, in a “60s noir thriller”.
Dakota Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Chris Hemsworth, Cynthia Erivo and Cailee Spaeney star in the film.
Related: Drew Goddard’s Bad Times at the El Royale to Start Filming in Vancouver in Winter 2018.
Dakota Johnson was photographed in Vancouver on the weekend with her boyfriend, Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. See the Daily Mail for the story.
Dakota Johnson. Fifty Shades image.
Other characters: Jeff “the Dude” Bridges is a convict pretending to be a priest so he can find stolen loot he stashed in the hotel years before.
Here he is in the heist gone wrong, filmed in Agassiz.
Chris Hemsworth (Thor) is a charismatic cult leader looking to recapture a follower who got away.
Tony winner Cynthia Erivo is a down-on-her-luck singer who crosses paths with the others.
Cailee Spaeney is a young Southern girl hiding out in the hotel.
Bad Times at the El Royale is Drew Goddard’s feature film followup to his horror hit The Cabin in the Woods. Next up for Goddard is writing and directing the Deadpool spinoff X-Force with Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Josh Brolin as Cable.
Bad Times at the El Royale (working title Purple Harvest) is expected to film in metro Vancouver from January 29th to April 13th.
The 20th Century Fox production filmed a bank heist gone wrong during a 1950s Christmas with Jeff Bridges as one of the robbers in Agassiz on January 30th and 31st.
Related: Jeff “the Dude” Bridges films Bad Times at the El Royale in Agassiz.
And then moved to downtown Vancouver to the Beatty Street Drill Hall reportedly as a jail with cells and an FBI office on February 2nd. Again Jeff Bridges was spotted at set.
Since then, production has been spotted mainly on the town set at Upper Coquitlam River Park.
Bad Times at the El Royale is expected in theatres on October 5th.