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Steve McQueen’s Blitz

Steve McQueen is back to the big screen with Blitz; a beautiful and very human insight into World War II. We facilitated filming across a number of our locations, including Islington, Haringey, and Archway Campus.

In a recent interview with Film London, Supervising Location Manager Jonah Coombes said “London is the key thread that ties it all together, and the long list of locations that we featured were those that we felt best portrayed that version of wartime London on screen.” Cue, FilmFixer!

We had a particularly special shoot in Southwark, with onlookers saying they’d never seen the Thames look so impressive. The action of the scene was being filmed in a barge off of Wapping Pier, but the real star of the show was the lighting. The crew were positioned at 4 different locations along the opposite bank of river and the impact was truly sensational (pictured below is the POV from Cumberland Wharf Park).

We also had a shoot on Camden’s Wicklow Street for a brief but vital scene of Rita (Saoirse Ronan) emerging from a night in a bomb shelter. Jonah said of the shoot that “Wicklow Street worked so well for us because it’s cobbled and is pretty much surrounded by period-correct buildings and, crucially, it had empty plots where we could build the bombed-out structures

Blitz is available to stream on Apple TV.

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