rumours<\/a> at one point that 300<\/i> would be shot in Vancouver too, but then it ended up going to Montreal \u2014 so until we hear something more official, take this with a grain of salt.<\/span><\/p>\nUPDATE: How\u2019s this for a coincidence: Right around the time I was writing this post, a friend wrote me to say: \u201cI just met one of the location scouts for the upcoming \u2018Watchmen\u2019 flick. They are considering using SFU and the tower here in Surrey.\u201d Bizarre.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hollywood North Report thinks so. In fact, they claim that Zack Snyder, director of the surprisingly successful 300, and the rest of the Watchmen team will be opening their production office here as early as June, with shooting set to start in August. Then again, there were rumours at one point that 300 would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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