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Several high profile film and television productions are scheduled to film in the Calgary area this year

Jude Law pictured in Park City, Utah in 2020. He will be in the Calgary area filming the true crime film The Order. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images

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Several high-profile film and television productions are slated to shoot in the Calgary area this year, including projects starring Jude Law and Peter Dinklage, and a new western series from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter.

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Deadline, an industry website, reported earlier this month that Oscar-nominated British actor Jude Law and British actor Nicholas Hoult – who is currently receiving rave reviews for his work in dark comedy The Menu – would star in The Order. The thriller is directed by Australian director Justin Kurzel, who previously directed Macbeth in 2015. Set in 1983, the film stars Law as an FBI agent investigating a series of violent bank robberies orchestrated by a domestic terrorist played by Hoult. Production will begin in Alberta in May, although specific locations have yet to be determined.

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This is just one of several projects set to be filmed in the Calgary area. According to industry website Production Weekly, the film The Thicket is also set to begin production in Calgary. Starring Game of Thrones actor Peter Dinklage and Cape Fear’s Juliette Lewis. According to the Internet Movie Database, the film is set in west Texas and focuses on a boy who hires a ragtag band of bounty hunters, including one played by Dinklage, to rescue his sister after she’s been kidnapped by bank robbers. According to ACTRA Alberta’s website, filming is scheduled to begin on February 27.

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Peter Dinklage, seen here in the film Cyrano, will be in the Calgary area for the coming weeks filming The Thicket. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.

Kurt Sutter’s The Abandons, a western series being filmed for Netflix, is also slated to start filming in Alberta later this year. According to Collider.com, the series is set in 1850s Oregon and “follows a diverse group of runaway families on their quest for Manifest Destiny.” No cast has been announced yet. Sutter is best known as the creator of the FX biker gang drama Sons of Anarchy.

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Production Weekly also reports that director Kari Skogland will be shooting a sequel to 2017’s Wind River in Alberta. The original starred Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen. The sequel will star Martin Sensmeier and will be filmed in both the Calgary and Wyoming areas.

HBO has also greenlit a second season of its hit zombie drama The Last of Us, which was filmed in Alberta. So far there has been no confirmation that season two will return to the provinces for filming.

Fargo season 5, starring Jon Hamm, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Stranger Things star Joe Keery, is currently filming in the Calgary area, as is season 2 of the Fraggle Rock reboot.

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