…and they make their way to this plane crash, in Yonge-Dundas Square.Īgain, it’s fun to just pick out all the little post-production changes to the signage. You can kinda see a “Toronto Airways” terminal sign in the back there, eh?Īnd then our heroes’ helicopter crashes, just outside Harbour 60… There’s almost nothing recognizable on screen, but it’s actually Markham’s Buttonville Airport. …at this airport, which could be anywhere. Hollywood!)įinally, after many introductory (and studio-shot) shenanigans, our titular squad assembles… (Which makes it a bit weird they established the location with a shot that has totally different architecture and a different kind of train and they didn’t really retouch the signage. …Central Station is most definitely Lower Bay. This is (as you can kinda plainly see) the Downsview subway station.īut that’s not your only slice of TTC love, folks. The action then shifts to the fictional Midway City. One sign that didn’t get changed? The Big Slice! The beloved pizza joint faced death by condo earlier this year but no matter what, it’s been in the same shot as Batman and The Hulk, and those are laurels upon which it may certainly rest for all time. But when you watch it again, and pay less attention to the Batmobile, you can appreciate all the little changes, like to the signs for the Elephant & Castle and the BIA… …though the shots are geographically out of order, if you’re paying attention.Īll this hullabaloo amounted to something like 15 seconds of screentime. Mind you, he’s CGI so he wasn’t really on set.Īnyway, we do find the Joker speeding down the street… It’s not even the first time a superhero has taken over that stretch, since The Hulk did the same thing less than a decade ago. So, we all remember when the Batmobile and Joker were cruising down Yonge Street because it’s not the sort of thing that happens here in Hogtown every day. It’s just an alleyway beside the Ontario Heritage Trust headquarters but, damn, if it hasn’t appeared in Hannibal and a billion other things as “Random Urban Alley.” Whatever, we hereby officially declare it shall henceforth be known as Affleck Alley. Or “The Batman,” if you’re an old school purist or whatever. …and turns into this alleyway where he runs into Batman. Then he goes walking with his daughter along Adelaide Street… When he rappels down afterwards, you can’t really miss the Skywalk (now home to the UPX platform), all of which seems to place him on the roof of this Front Street building. He’s setting up an assassination from this rooftop, from which you can make out the CBC headquarters… Sorry for the tease.īut then we meet our de facto (anti-)hero, Deadshot (presumably in Gotham City?) and he is in Toronto. somehow has the Capitol Building at its end.)Īctually it’s neither here nor there. (It’s amazing, watching movies you’d think every street in D.C. So we open up with Viola Davis going into the Cicada restaurant, said to be in Washington, D.C. At least it wasn’t Batman v Superman, right? And now, as it’s about to come out on home video, you can see the extended cut with more of Jared Leto’s oh-so-method Joker and, sure, more Toronto, too!
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Whether it’s simply because it was 2015, where everyone has their cellphone ready to tweet and YouTube when they come across a big shoot, or whether it’s because fricking Batman was rolling down Yonge Street on the back of a neon purple Lamborghini, it was kind of hard to ignore that they were in town.Īnd if, once the movie came out, it turned out to be kinda fun but not really great, well, that’s okay. Suicide Squad is not the first blockbuster film to shoot on our fair streets but it probably was the most visible. Reel Toronto revels in digging up and displaying the films that attempt to mask, hide, or-in rare cases-proudly display our city. Toronto’s extensive work on the silver screen reveals that, while we have the chameleonic ability to look like anywhere from New York City to Moscow, the disguise doesn’t always hold up to scrutiny. On our streets, bad guys take on badder guys. Culture Where Suicide Squad Was Filmed in Toronto
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