New Moon Filmed on SSI?
Q: Was the Twilight: New Moon movie filmed on Salt Spring Island?
— E.H., Salt Spring Island
A: No. New Moon was not filmed on Salt Spring.
Rumour had it that it was being filmed here, but that myth has since squashed the hearts of “Twi-hards” who drove up and down Mt. Maxwell looking for the film crew earlier this year.
West Coast Canadians can, however, take pride in the fact that much of the the film was filmed in B.C. in close-to-home locations like Kitsilano, Stanley Park and Tofino.
Of the 16 filming locations listed on The Internet Movie Database (IMDb), 13 were in B.C.:
• David Thompson Secondary School, Victoria-Fraserview, Vancouver, B.C.
• Kitsilano, Vancouver
• New Westminster
• Paramount Theatre, New Westminster
• Pitt Meadows
• Port Coquitlam
• Stanley Park, Vancouver
• Surrey (Bella’s house)
• Tofino
• Vancouver Film Studios
• Vancouver
• West Vancouver (Cullen Residence)
• Whytecliff Park, Vancouver
• Montepulciano, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
• Todi, Perugia, Umbria, Italy
• Portland, Oregon
Twilight Saga: Eclipse, the third in the series, to be released June 30, 2010, was filmed exclusively in B.C. according to the IMDb:
• Belcarra Regional Park, Burrard Inlet
• Capilano College, North Vancouver
• David Thompson Secondary School, Victoria-Fraserview, Vancouver
• Gastown, Vancouver
• Langley
• Port Moody
• Robert Burnaby Park, East Burnaby
• Steveston, Richmond
• Surrey
• Vancouver Film Studios
• Vancouver
Eclipse is currently in post-production phase.
