Where Was ‘The Adam Project’ Filmed?

Netflix’s The Adam Project stars Ryan Reynolds as a time traveler from 2050 named Adam Reed who accidentally flies his quantam jet into his own childhood backyard in 2022 and reunites with his 12-year-old self, played by newcomer Walker Scobell. The two Adams set out to find their dad, who died in 2018, and so into the jet they go to find him, back in time.

The film is vague about where young Adam and his mom Ellie (played by Jennifer Garner) actually live, depicting a gorgeous but vague version of the Pacific Northwest. They’re close to the ocean, and their yard is a lush, forest-like wonderland. As the Adams travel together in search of their father, Louis (Mark Ruffalo), they trek through woods and beachy backdrops that are beautiful to look at, and the film has audiences wondering, where are these beautiful locations, anyway?

Where Was The Adam Project Filmed?

The majority of The Adam Project was filmed in and around Vancouver, Canada, which happens to be Ryan Reynolds’ hometown. (His social media handle is a nod to the city: @vancityreynolds.) Locations such as Jack Poole Plaza, Park Royal Shopping Mall, and local pub The Blarney Stone appear in the film, as do Lynn Canyon Park and Kitsilano Beach, for some of the outdoor scenes. (This interactive map features every location in Vancouver that appears in the film.)

The Reed’s family home and the backyard however, were built on a set in a Vancouver hockey arena that became a sound stage used on the film. Production designer Claude Paré explained in press materials for the film that “We wanted the interior of the home to look like a split-level dream house you’d typically find in the Pacific Northwest.” But not all of the yard is actually real or filmed on location, some of the lush yard was digitally altered with VFX.

Paré also explained that the interior of the Sorian Labs featured in the film were built just for the movie too, but that they were inspired by a real location, CERN, the nuclear research facility in Switzerland. “Its aesthetic has always fascinated me. I took the most well-known part of the complex — the Large Hadron Collider — and made it vertical instead of horizontal. Some people will question the practicality of it all, but when you can create a machine that doesn’t actually have to work, it’s fun to cobble the elements together for their looks only,” he said.

The Adam Project is out now on Netflix.

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