Today saw Skydance Media responsible of producing many of Tom Cruise’s mega block buster movies including the Mission Impossible franchise start moving into Swindon’s iconic Oasis leisure centre. Lorries from Equipment Co based in Slough, a film & TV Lighting and Support company arrived shortly after a JCB was seen moving the concrete bollards in front of the entrance to the leisure centre.
Skydance Media have been given permission to use the inside of the dome to film an Apple TV Sci-Fi production set in future Japan.
Last year Apple TV aired on their streaming platform a show set in Japan called Sunny, about an American woman living in Kyoto, Japan, who’s life is upended when her husband and son disappear in a mysterious plane crash. As a consolation, she is given Sunny, one of a new class of domestic robots made by her husband’s electronic company.
It’s unlikely to be this production, as season one was filmed entirely in Japan, as well as Apple confirming last year that the show would be cancelled after the first season due to poor viewing numbers and the production company behind the first season was A24, and not Skydance. However, wouldn’t be the first show to be announced as cancelled to be late resurrected for another season.
Skydance Media do have a number of productions under close wraps, so maybe it could be one of those.
The production is set to be filming for six days sometime between now and April 2025.
This wont be the first time Swindon has been used for big production films. Swindon has been used to film scenes for not one, but two James Bond films, first for the movie A View to a Kill starring Roger Moore used the then award winning yellow steel framed Renault building, and again in 2000 to film The World is Not Enough, starring Pierce Brosnan as Bond this time at the then Motorola building, now the The Pierre Simonet Building owned by Vygon.
We will keep you up to date as we hear more.
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