Dinosaurs in Atlanta? Just another day on Oak Street, where a quiet 1980s neighborhood is suddenly thrown into a prehistoric fight for survival.
When a mysterious cosmic event rips Oak Street away from the city, the entire neighborhood is transported to a completely unknown place. What was once an ordinary suburban community is suddenly surrounded by an enormous prehistoric environment, with dinosaurs dangerously roaming among its inhabitants. Amid this unfamiliar and hostile wilderness, the Platt family struggles to stay together as the world they once knew disappears. Survival takes center stage as they face these new adversities together while searching for a way back home, or whatever remains of it.
This soon-to-be-released sci-fi thriller is directed by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and stars Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, Maisy Stella, and Christian Convery as an American family living in the 1980s. Tree-lined roads, modest homes, and quiet residential layouts help establish the film’s distinctly suburban atmosphere. Atlanta, London, and New Orleans were used as filming locations to capture the setting and visual character of the neighborhood, evoking a classic American suburban aesthetic. Stay tuned to learn everything about the filming locations in The End of Oak Street.
Atlanta, United States
Photo by @rottentomatoesAlthough placing convincing dinosaurs on an ordinary American street was challenging and, of course, required the use of visual effects, the city of Atlanta was used to create the exterior appearance of the fictional Oak Street neighborhood, perfectly matching the film’s 1980s setting. Manford Road SW, Erin Avenue SW, Westwood Avenue, and Dover Ct. SW were among the main areas used for filming, thanks to their combination of mid-century homes and mature tree cover. Georgia’s generous film tax incentives have made the state a popular filming destination, with productions such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Walking Dead, and Gone Girl, among many others, being filmed there.
New Orleans, United States
Photo by @anniecravemediaNew Orleans was also used for additional filming because of its distinctive Southern atmosphere and older residential neighborhoods, helping create a cohesive visual identity despite the film’s fictional setting being assembled from different locations.
London, United Kingdom
Photo by @endofoakstreetAs the primary production base for The End of Oak Street, London provided the facilities needed for interior scenes, visual effects, and other technical work. The Platt family home was constructed on soundstages, giving the filmmakers greater control over the environment and allowing them to recreate the details of a 1980s American suburban house. These controlled studio spaces were particularly important for scenes involving the family’s encounters with the film’s supernatural events and prehistoric surroundings, where practical sets could be combined with visual effects to create a seamless transition between the ordinary and the extraordinary.
