Bill Burr teamed up with Netflix not to make a stand-up comedy special, but to make a film about the woes, ups and downs of fatherhood of a middle-aged man. Today we’re going to take a look at the Old Dads filming locations.
Old Dads is a comedy that shows us how a dude like Bill Burr can adapt to the role of becoming a father while dealing with parents in a place like woke, sunny and liberal California. Bill Burr’s style of comedy is all over the place, from directing to script. Produced in a joint venture with Miramax, and Burr’s production company “All Things Comedy”, the film has the cinematography under the work of Sean McElwee.
Moreover, the movie takes place in Los Angeles. So, without any further ado, let’s explore some of the places chosen by Burr to make this hilarious comedy come alive.
Old Dads Filming Locations
With Bill Burr acting and directing this hilarious, punch-you-in-the-face comedy of a middle-aged man who becomes a father, the story takes place in sunny, liberal California, it is sort of semi-autobiographical when you take a look at Bill Burr’s life and political views.
This movie is shot in California, but not the real Cali, but a fictional one, as Burr spared us the view of the endless rows of tents on the sidewalks. Instead, we get the LaLa Land version of Los Angeles. Los Angeles without all the problems, that as stated earlier, troubles the city and is causing its residents to flee to other states and cities.
The one where there’s no crime, no homeless people hounding you for an extra buck, and where the economy seems to be stable for a middle-class income family. The main photography for this Bill Burr film kicked off back in early March 2022 and for a period of one month and a half.
Taking aside the unrealistic aspects of a comedy that talks about being a parent in modern times in a city marred with problems, let’s explore a little bit more about the places where Bill Burr, cast, and crew decided to shoot “Old Dads”.
Los Angeles, California
When it comes to filming movies, the Mecca of cinema is Hollywood, this Netflix Original movie directed by Bill Burr was shot entirely in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area. California is synonymous with movies, with emerging powerhouses like Netflix and Hulu setting up shop in the same areas as great studios like MGM, Warner Bros. Pictures, Sony Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, and Paramount Pictures have their massive stages.
Los Angeles, California is home to film masterpieces like Oppenheimer, Fast X, Barbie, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood, and many more. Some indoor scenes were shot in actual houses rented for the movie across the Los Angeles suburbs.
In Old Dads, the main photograph takes place in Los Angeles’s metro area, we see iconic outdoor shots like the First Street Bridge, that bridge is almost a hundred years old, it is an iconic landmark that connects the LA River to the metro area and we’ve seen it in movies like “The Last Action Hero”, “Training Day” with Denzel Washington and “Blue Streak” with Martin Lawrence. It doesn’t get any more LaLa Land than that.
Reseda, San Jose & Northridge
Huge, wide-lense shots of the Los Angeles skyline, and we see how the movie takes place in the middle-class areas of Los Angeles and the posh downtown Los Angeles.
Many hilarious outdoor scenes take place in downtown Los Angeles as well as its surrounding areas like San Jose, Reseda, and Northridge, and places that make up the feel and vibe of Los Angeles where everything seems to flow with the lifestyle of the characters portrayed.
Furthermore, it is in Reseda where we see Bill Burr’s character Jack, take that out-of-control scooter ride across town, with those near misses and honking of horns as the man in his middle-life crisis takes that scooter for some action only to be scared the hell out of it it.
