Scorched Earth and Zoo Season 2 Start Filming in Vancouver This Week

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This week, post-apocalyptic feature Scorched Earth and TV series Zoo start filming in Vancouver

Scorched Earth (Feature)
After the earth as we know it is destroyed by an environmental disaster, bounty hunter Atticus Gage sets out to round up the world’s most wanted criminal. Scorched Earth was written by Vancouver’s own Kevin Leeson and Bobby Mort of The Colbert Report and pitched at TIFF in 2012.

According to the films IMDb page, British actor Dean S. Jagger and Canadian actor Patrick Gilmore will star. Patrick appears in a couple of other recent filmed in BC productions including Gracepoint and this year’s new series You Me Her. Mixed Martial Arts master turned actress and recent Deadpool star Gina Carano is amongst the cast.

Scorched Earth will be filming in Vancouver and area until March 7th.

Zoo (TV Series) Season 2
After filming its first season in New Orleans, CBS TV series Zoo is set to begin filming its second season in Vancouver this week. Zoo is a Sci-Fi Drama that follows a team who are investigating a world-wide outbreak of suspicious animal attacks. It’s based on a book of the same name written by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge and released in 2012.

The main cast for the shows first season included James Wolk (You Again), Kristen Connolly (The Cabin in the Woods), Nonso Anozie (Cinderalla), Nora Arnezeder (Safe House), and of course everyone’s favourite Forks, Washington Police Chief Charlie Swan aka Billy Burke (Twilight).

Zoo Season 2 will be filming in Vancouver and area until July 7th. If you haven’t see the show before, checkout this preview of the its first episode:

For a full list of everything that’s filming in Vancouver and British Columbia right now, check out our In Production page.

Wrapping Up This Week

Garage Sale Mystery: A Novel Murder (TV Movie) with Lori Loughlin wraps February 9th.
Motive (TV Series) Season 4 with Kristin Lehman & Louis Lehman wraps February 12th. In case you want check it out one more time before it wraps for the season, Motive will be filming on location on Union Street in Vancouver February 10th – check out our Current Filming Locations page for details.

If you see any of these productions, including Scorched Earth filming in Vancouver and British Columbia, be sure to let us know by tweeting us (@WhatsFilming) or via our Submit a Location page.