Anne Hathaway’s new dinosaur thriller “The End of Oak Street” filmed primarily in Metro Atlanta, with production spotted in Southwest Atlanta’s Wisteria Gardens neighborhood along Erin Avenue and Westwood Avenue, as well as Dover Boulevard and Howell Drive.
The film, which stars Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella and Christian Convery, follows a family surviving prehistoric creatures after their neighborhood is teleported to an unknown location.
Cast members said Atlanta’s suburban neighborhoods brought a distinct look to the film. “Georgia is really good for filming these type of movies because the suburban neighborhoods, they’re just these time capsules,” one cast member said. “We found an absolute gem of a neighborhood to film in.”
Another actor called the street the crew filmed on “a massive big long street” that “gave us another character which is their neighborhood.” The homes were left untouched rather than renovated or modernized, cast members said.
The crew also used Electric Owl Studios in Decatur, which offers six sound stages and 65,000 square feet of production space. There, the team built a full house set designed to look like a real home from the 1980s, down to the contents of the fridge and the carpeted stairs leading to the kids’ bedrooms.
“Every single detail was brilliant,” one cast member said of the set.
Cast members also praised the local crew’s work ethic and the hospitality they found in the city. “The people of Atlanta have been incredibly generous to us,” one said.
Courtesy of the Georgia Film Office
