Join The Locationist and get ready to walk in the footsteps of cinema and TV icons, as you discover film and TV filming locations across the city centre in Manchester; from the Northern Quarter to Castlefield.
***New: Visit some of the locations from Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man which is now streaming on Netflix worldwide.
This immersive walking tour includes many production locations, from the recent Netflix hit House Of Guinness, Prime video's Harlan Coben's Lazurus, the American supernatural series: Talamasca: The Secret Order, Finding Emily, BBC's Film Club, to tour guest faves of Peaky Blinders,[series and film]The Crown, Captain America: The first Avenger, Fool Me Once, It'a A Sin/Queer As Folk, Snatch, Coldfeet, and info on the forthcoming DC studios film 'Clayface' and Greta Kerwig's [Barbie] new film Narnia: The Magician Nephew -all partly filmed in the city.
Discover how Manchester is often in 'disguise' for many film and TV scenes doubling for other cities like Birmingham, UK, London and New York with it even gaining a new nickname because of the latter - 'Manc-Hattan'.
What to expect:
A 3 hour guided walking tour of Manchester's film and TV locations in walkable distance.
Get the inside scoop from a guide who has worked as a TV extra and supporting artist on countless productions from Coronation Street to Hollyoaks, most often working on location; with lots of fun and entertaining anecdotes to tell.
The Locationist will screen- match scenes to locations with screen-grab photographs.
Learn about visual and foley sound effects, some of the secrets of cinema, and discover the process of finding a location to film.
Lots of oppurtunities to take plenty of memorable photographs and create content for your socials, film and recreate iconic scenes where it was actually filmed, so you can brag to your friends you have walked in the footsteps of Hollywood Oscar winning stars including Cillian Murphy, Jared Leto, Robert Downey Jnr, Adrien Brody and Daniel Day-Lewis.
Free E-booklet sent a day after the tour which is packed with additional information of things mentioned on the tour, deep dives, visual/sound effect info, plus the timecodes of film and TV scenes of locations visited on the tour, so you can spot Manchester all over again at home and find out what exactly is the Willhelm scream.
**Extra bonus for Peaky Blinders fans. The Locationist is from the Midlands, so has a genuine Peaky-Esque accent.
The tour is a must for a film geek, film student, content creators, or anyone simply interested in the magic of filmmaking on location.
Join The Locationist for a tour today.
Tour guide /Event presenter credits:
BBC Tour Guide for over 15 years, TV centre London, BBC Birmingham and BBC Salford.
Live Event hosting for Cbbc, BBC Learning, and Longleat.
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