'Alberta has big cities, smaller towns, prairies, forests, mountains...Pretty much every environment other than the ocean. That was our winning angle.' - Location manager Jason Nolan on how Alberta became home to TheLastofUsHBO. CraveCanada
'The Last of Us' protagonists survey a zombie-ravaged wasteland, aka Edmonton's Memorial Drive is already being hailed as the best series of 2023, thanks to its mix of artistry, emotional resonance and nightmare-inducing action sequences.
How did one of the buzziest and most expensive productions of all time end up in Alberta—and how did you get involved?I first heard about the possibility through the Alberta Film Commission. They were putting together a submission package to pitch the province as the location for the series, so I facilitated some photos of some of the key proposed locations. We didn’t have a lot of information at this point, just the broad strokes. It was definitely a competitive process.
For the most part, yes. Our first shoots were the opening of episode one, which takes place about 20 years ago in Texas, so we wanted to establish that setting as being distinct. That’s when the audience first meets Joel, as well as his 12-year-old daughter, Sarah. We don’t spend a lot of time in this time period, but their relationship is important to driving the rest of the series, so we needed the right location for their home.
I met with just about every city department: traffic, police, parks, pathways, transit. It took us from Thursday to Saturday to create the set, and then we shot on the Sunday. There were a lot of moving parts—40 police officers, 200 cars on the stretch of highway underneath—but it looked great and captured the abandoned, overgrown quality that was our goal.
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