Downtown Gary is featured as a backdrop in a trailer for a new Apple TV+ show.
"Dark Matter," which is based on the blockbuster novel, stars Joel Edgerton and Jennifer Connelly. It's slated to be released on the streaming service on May 8.
The first two episodes with drop on the release dates with subsequent episodes coming out every Wednesday until June 26.
The production shot scenes by the Centier Bank Building on Broadway between 5th Avenue and 6th Avenue and along 5th Avenue between Broadway and Washington Street this week.
Downtown Gary is visible in a scene in the trailer, which is a big action set piece.
Edgerton and Connelly are running as skyscrapers fall like dominoes in the background. The foreground features the former Gary State Bank Tower parking garage and other buildings along Broadway. It's unmistakably downtown Gary because of public murals by Justus Roe, Tom Billings and Taelor Wood that were commissioned by the #PaintGary project.
The collapsing skyscrapers in the background were added in through CGI.
Sony Pictures TV adapted Blake Crouch's 2016 best-selling sci-fi thriller novel "Dark Matter," which is about a physicist who's kidnapped and sent to a parallel universe, where he finds that different outcomes create new universes that run parallel to his own. Mesquite Production did the filming in Gary, which is believed to be the city's largest production since "Transformers 3."
"The Nightmare on Elm Street" remake, "Sense8," "Life After People," "Appointment with Danger" and "Original Gangstas" are among the many films and TV shows to have been filmed in Gary over the years.
The Steel City has a film and television board that reviews filming permits. The Board of Public Works and Safety gets the final say.
Indiana recently passed a new film and media tax credit that incentivizes productions as income tax credit of up to 30% to offset expenses. It also lured the production of director Anu Valia's independent film "We Strangers."
Apple TV+, known for sci-fi series like "Foundation" and "For All Mankind," reaches up to 1 billion screens in a 100 countries. Its new show "Dark Matter" is slated for a nine-episode run. It stars Edgerton as Jason Dessen, "a physicist, professor, and family man who — one night while walking home on the streets of Chicago — is abducted into an alternate version of his life," according to an Apple+ press release.
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