When you flick on a high-budget movie or television show with an engaging storyline and great acting, it’s easy to miss the surroundings of the stars that make each scene truly unique.
Viewers often assume green screens and special effects are primarily used to create the filming scenes in Hollywood studios. While this is true for various filming aspects, real cities, streets and buildings are used to film in and on.
You may have even visited filming locations of major movies and TV shows with A-list celebrities in the past.
One city in the United States in particular has become a hot spot for filming major motion pictures.
Atlanta, Georgia ranks second, only to Los Angeles, in number of soundstages across the country.
GEORGIA IS KNOWN FOR MUCH MORE THAN JUST PEACHES
Marvel superhero movies have been filmed in various locations around Atlanta including “Black Panther,” “Avengers: Infinity War,” “Captain America: Civil War” and “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”
The High Museum of Art was used in Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther,” starring the late Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright and Danai Gurira.
Peter Parker, played by Tom Holland, walked through the halls of Midtown High School, a real public school in Atlanta, while filming “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” The school is highly rated and holds over 1,500 students, grades 9-12, according to its website.
The location was used when Holland was no longer able to keep his true identity as a superhero from his friends and classmates.
A bland looking corner of Piedmont Park in Atlanta is assumed to be just that – though the location couldn’t be further from it. The brown and gray seemingly deserted plaza was actually used for a chaotic, shots fired, mess-making scene with Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson while filming “Infinity War.”
Every day when a multi-million dollar film isn’t in its production stages, Piedmont Park is a popular location for Atlanta residents and tourists alike. Families or…
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