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An entertaining history of Vancouver as Hollywood North, the third busiest film production hub in North America
Rumble in the Bronx and Jason Takes Manhattan. Deadpool and Five Easy Pieces. Supernatural and 21 Jump Street. Shōgun and The X-Files.
Known for its proximity to the US, its diverse landscape, and its handsome tax breaks, Vancouver has been a hub for the motion picture and television industry for decades. It currently ranks #3 in North America for productions, just behind Los Angeles and New York, and has been the setting for innumerable hit films, classic television shows, hidden gems, and trendsetters. As a stand-in for locations from Seattle to Smallville and Riverdale to Russia, Vancouver has hosted a wealth of major actors, directors, and seminal characters, including Sylvester Stallone's Rambo and Ryan Reynolds's Deadpool.
Shot in Vancouver tells the fascinating story of Vancouver's rise as Hollywood North, from its humble beginnings as a locale for 1970s films such as McCabe & Mrs. Miller and Carnal Knowledge to its current incarnation as a major production hub that's spawned a corresponding domestic industry, even though it is rarely depicted on film as itself. Shot in Vancouver is a loving and affectionate tribute to a city in disguise, as well as a catalogue of its astonishing contributions to film and television history.
Sam Wiebe (he/him) is a lifelong movie fan and an award-winning and bestselling author of Pacific Northwest crime fiction. His series of novels about Vancouver PI Dave Wakeland is one of the most authentic and acclaimed in contemporary detective series. Wiebe's other work includes Ocean Drive, Last of the Independents,and the Ethan Brand series, set in Washington State and written under the pen name Nolan Chase. Wiebe has won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and two Crime Writers of Canada awards and was nominated for the Edgar, Hammett, Shamus, and City of Vancouver book prizes. He lives in New Westminster, BC.
PART 1: ACTION
Rumble in the Bronx: How a Hong Kong Production changed American Cinema
Shoot to Kill: Sidney Poitier's Comeback Film
Erotic Thrillers: The Ex, The Crush and Fear
Real Action Heroes: Timecop and The Sixth Day
B.C. Fights Fascism: 49th Parallel and Commandos Strike at Dawn
The Cold War in Coal Harbour: From Russian Roulette to Rocky IV
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever: "The Worst Movie Ever Made" Was Made Here
A Man, a Woman and a Bank and Bear Island: Donald Sutherland's Bid for Glory
Romeo Must Die: When Hiphop and Martial Arts Met
A Tale of Two Studios: MacGyver and 21 Jump Street
John Woo's Once a Thief and Paycheck
The Rambo Robbery and Other Misadventures from the set of First Blood
PART 2: COMEDY
Rock n Roll Heartaches: My American Cousin and American Boyfriends
How Roxanne Changed the Fate of Steve Martin and Nelson
Hallmark for the Holidays: October Kiss and Love Hard
A John Badham Movie x 3: Stakeout, Bird on a Wire, and Another Stakeout
We're No Angels: Robert DeNiro Being Funny
Big Meat Eater: Vancouver's Own Midnight Movie
Beachcombers, Danger Bay, Robson Arms
Juno and Jennifer's Body
Hot Rod, Happy Gilmore and Freddy Got Fingered
Comedy Crime: Short Time, Harry in Your Pocket, Who's Harry Crumb and No Clue
Kids' Films: Jumanji, Air Bud, Natty Gann, Eve and the Fire Horse, Saved, She's the Man, Never Ending Story 1 and 2, Breaker High
Best in Show
Seth Rogen: The Interview and Joy Ride
PART 3: DRAMA
Secrets of Chinatown: Victoria's Infamous Quota Quickie
B.C.'s Asian Communities on Film, from Kung Fu to Vancouver Asahi
Housekeeping: The Great American Novel Filmed in Nelson
Star 80: The Controversial Film Inspired by the Murder of Dorothy Stratten
McCabe and Mrs. Miller
The Accused: Vancouver's First Oscar Winner
Five Easy Pieces and Carnal Knowledge
Procedurals: Motive, the Killing, Gracepoint, Killer Instinct, Rogue, The Commish, Wiseguy, Watson, Cold Squad
Teen Angst: Edgemont, Smallville, Riverdale and Yellowjackets
Tricks of Memory: The Pledge, Intersection, Insomnia, Distant Thunder
The L Word, Better than Chocolate and By Design
Survival: The Trap, Eureka, Kootenai Brown, Quest for Fire, The Grey, Alive, The Revenant, The Edge,
Prestige TV: Intelligence and Profit
James Clavell:From The Sweet and Bitter to Shogun
Chief Dan George: The Bears and I, Shadow of the Hawk
Chris Haddock: Da Vinci's Inquest and Da Vinci's City Hall
The Sweet Hereafter
Madeleine Is ...
PART 4: HORROR
The Changeling: The Horror Classic that Defined B.C. Filmmaking
From Derry to Castle Rock: Stephen King's It and Needful Things
That Cold Day in the Park and The Stepfather
Unnatural and Accidental
Friday the 13th VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (or the SkyTrain)
Final Destination and Tony Todd's Last Words
Bloody Retreads: Remakes and Sequels
American Mary and the Soska Sisters
Supernatural
Comedy-Horror: Bordello of Blood, Scary Movie, Lake Placid, Slither and Cabin in the Woods
AmericanGothic: Yvonne De Carlo's Monstrous Homecoming
Early Days of B.C. Horror: The Mad Room, The Keeper and Prophecy
Masters of Horror and Midnight Mass
PART 5: INDIE
Fact and Fantasy: The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess and Beeba Boys
Skip Tracer: The Unsung Classic of Vancouver Cinema
The Diary of Evelyn Lau and Double Happiness: Mina Shum and Sandra Oh's Groundbreaking Collaborations
Troubled Youth: Little Criminals and rollercoaster
Difficult Films and Difficult Women: Kissed and Suspicious River
Secrets and Lies in the West End: Bruce Sweeney's Vancouver
The Grey Fox and Harry Tracy, Desperado
The Body Remembers when the World Broke In
Hard Core Logo and Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
Larry Kent: Bitter Ash, When Tomorrow Dies
Raymond Burr and Out of the Blue
Eva and the Fire Horse
Jack Darcus: Deserters, ProxyHawks, Overnight, Kingsgate
PART 6: SCIENCE FICTION
Big-Name Superheroes: M.A.N.T.I.S, Dark Angel and Peacemaker
Highlander: The Path to Immortality Leads Through Seacouver
The Far-Reaching Empire of Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe
How The Groundstar Conspiracy Made SFU the Face of the Future
Magnum AI: Michael Crichton's Runaway
Fake News and Everyday Conspiracies: The X-Files, David Duchovny, and "400 Inches of Rain"
Kill Switch: When the Monster of the Week is the Future
Millennium, The Lone Gunmen
CW Shows: Arrow, Flash, The 100
Battlestar Galactica and Caprica
Otherworldly: Mission to Mars, Continuum, Andromeda Stark Trek Beyond, and Viper, Tron Ares, Tron Legacy Warcraft, Sucker Punch and Mission to Mars, Koi Mil Gaya / I've...Found Someone, Fringe, The Magicians, Fantastic Four 1 and 2, X-Men 1 and 2
Ryan Reynolds: From Deadpool in Wolverine to Deadpool and Wolverine