{"id":836771,"date":"2026-07-30T21:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836771\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:43:09","slug":"why-are-all-these-army-vehicles-on-a-film-set-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/836771\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are all these army vehicles on a film set in Vancouver?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the most recognizable film sets in the city, but it looks kind of like the end of the world\u2014and that&#8217;s because it is&#8230;sort of.<\/p>\n<p>The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic zombie drama with a cult-like following that has filmed several seasons in British Columbia, with several larger-than-life sets in Metro Vancouver.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Production company Bear and Pear Productions Inc. began filming under the working\u00a0title &#8220;Calm Current&#8221;\u00a0on March 2 and will continue through Nov. 27.<\/p>\n<p>A New Westminster resident and\u00a0local film enthusiast who uses the handle\u00a0@CaptCanuck66 on X, formerly Twitter, shared several photos of the film set, noting that the interior of BC Place was decorated to appear like Seattle Stadium (have a look at the photo gallery).<\/p>\n<p>The Metro Vancouver man also noted lots of &#8220;Wolf&#8221; vehicles, which are heavily armoured. They look like military vehicles that the show frequently uses for dystopian scenes of the wasteland world.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Wolf?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Wolf<\/a> vehicles being used today on set. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheLastofUsHBO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TheLastofUsHBO<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yvrshootstweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@yvrshootstweets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/TheLastofUs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#TheLastofUs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xoR3qOXHAO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xoR3qOXHAO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 NewWestBoy\u24c2\ufe0f (@CaptCanuck66) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaptCanuck66\/status\/2082714224086917610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheLastofUsHBO?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@TheLastofUsHBO<\/a> is back at it, filming in Vancouver tonight using <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/BCPlace?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#BCPlace<\/a> as the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/Seattle?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#Seattle<\/a> Stadium interior scenes <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/yvrshootstweets?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">@yvrshootstweets<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vaPwmjXPoq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/vaPwmjXPoq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 NewWestBoy\u24c2\ufe0f (@CaptCanuck66) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CaptCanuck66\/status\/2082713473495257333?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">July 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vancouver filming locations:\u00a0The Last of Us transforms the city&#8230;again<\/p>\n<p>Warning: The following description contains plot spoilers.<\/p>\n<p>The HBO zombie drama stars Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent), Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) and Nico Parker (Dumbo).<\/p>\n<p>The third instalment of the show is speculated to be the final season and focus on Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), as she tells the story from the beginning of the zombie apocalypse and after killing Joel (Pascal).<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s one of the most recognizable film sets in the city, but it looks kind of like the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":836772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-836771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}