So Christian Grey ( Jamie Dornan) is first seen jogging not around Seattle or Portland, but in Vancouver’s Coal Harbour seafront area and down the steps at Oceanic Plaza on Hastings Street. ![]() The one-time piece of online Twilight fan fiction replaced Harry Potter books and The Da Vinci Code as the necessary adjunct to a long train/bus/plane journey, and the film adaptation happily trots through its by-the-numbers format without expending needless energy on plot, characterisation or dialogue.Īs with the series that inspired it, the story is set in the damp and fittingly grey-skied Pacific Northwest of the USA around Portland and Seattle but, apart from some Second Unit scene setting, was made in Vancouver, largely around the city’s historic downtown core, Gastown, and in the North Shore Studios (formerly Lionsgate Studios), 555 Brooksbank Avenue in North Vancouver.
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