Gemini Man is the movie that you might have remembered for just two things. First, a movie in which Will Smith plays the double role of two spy agents who are 50 years and 23 years old and who are going against one another.
And the second thing was that the movie was filmed at a 120 or something Frame Rate per second. Even though that story wasn’t that good, its filming locations definitely stood out, and we will be talking about that.
This movie follows the main character, Henry Bogan, who is trying to leave his violent and unsafe line of work, but before he can, Junior and Clay Varris, the guy who created him, force him into a confrontation. It’s shown that Clay, who was Henry’s mentor in the past, is seeking to have Junior take the place of his former student, but Henry is desperate to stop the clone from heading down the same deadly path as he did.
Gemini Man Filming Location
Gemini Man was filmed in a lot of locations like Georgia, Colombia, Budapest, Belgium, and New York. Filming for the majority of Gemini Man took place on the action set location. Filming for the opening shot took place on location in Belgium at the contemporary Liège-Guillemins railway station.
Will Smith was seen on Tybee Island in Savannah, which was one of the locations for Menu Island. Filming for Henry’s cottage took place at Buttermilk Sound, close to Brunswick. The harbor where Henry and Danny first meet is the Isle of Hope Marina within Savannah. The Wormsloe Plantation is very next to the Isle of Hope, which is tucked away in the center of a lovely Historic District.
This scene featuring Janet Lassiter and Clayton “Clay” Varris, the director of the DIA, was shot outside the Enid A. Haupt, a Victorian-style Conservatory in The Bronx, New York.
Budapest
The ancient Stock Exchange Palace in Liberty Square was the location for the conversation between Henry and Marino that takes place after the train scene. This abandoned building has been used by multiple movies in recent years. Additionally, this location was the setting for the Netflix series Shadow and Bone, the 2021 feature film Outside the Wire, and Hanna Season 1.
The crepuscular scene was shot at a 17th-century castle, San Felipe’s Castle. The backlot of Origo Studios Budapest was used for filming the training scene that took place in the Gemini HQ in Glenville, Georgia. After a brief scene in the library’s sitting room at Budapest University, the trio gathers in the courtyard of this edifice, which was built in 1782.
The next scene was shot close to the Parliament Building on Liberty Square. The baths shown in the film are the renowned Széchenyi Thermal Baths, which were built in 1913. It is practically impossible to witness this Neo-Baroque monument as empty as it seems in the movie unless you have rented the entire building.
Tourists with irritating selfie sticks are constantly occupying the Fisherman’s Bastion on the Buda part of the Hungarian capital. Danny and Junior first meet at The Vajdahunyad Castle in Budapest’s City Park, which was built in 1896 to honor the Hungarian Conquer of the Carpathians in 895.
That explains why this complex’s construction is so similar to the magnificent fortified church buildings of Transylvania, which is now part of Romania. The Jaki Chapel, which is the courtyard, was a prominent location in The Witcher Season 1.
Colombia
The brightly colored houses in Cartagena, Colombia, were situated on the Plaza Del Maestro Obregon within the historic center. But a number of street scenes were filmed in the lovely Getsemani district, which is close to downtown.
It won’t be difficult for you to identify some of the places of the colonial walled town of Cartagena if you’ve been to the most popular tourist destination in Colombia. The motorbike chase scene that we saw in the movie carries on inside the ramparts and city’s walls, passing by the structure containing the Caribbean Naval Museum.
One of the sequences was shot in the little square where the exquisite Heredia Theater is located. This building, constructed between 1906 and 1911, is a piece of the Cartagena architectural group that has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
