Will Gluck is the director and producer of Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway, also referred to as Peter Rabbit 2, an adventure comedy released in 2021. Gluck and Patrick Burleigh co-wrote the screenplay.
The movie is a follow-up to Sony Pictures Animation’s 2018 release Peter Rabbit and is based on Beatrix Potter’s Peter Rabbit stories. Along with live-action performances by Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, and David Oyelowo, as well as vocals by Elizabeth Debicki, Lennie James, and Margot Robbie, James Corden returns to the title role.
A while after the events of the first movie, Bea and Thomas McGregor get married, and both of their animal and human friends attend. Meanwhile, Peter Rabbit comes to terms with Thomas’s presence in his life. A month after their honeymoon, Bea enlists Thomas’s assistance in creating a children’s book about Peter and her friends.
Peter, however, is upset that the book depicts him in a negative light. Thomas and Bea take Peter, Benjamin, Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail to meet publisher Nigel Basil-Jones after receiving a letter from a publishing company expressing interest in distributing the book.
Nigel presents his marketing plan, portraying Peter as a troublemaker and displaying a billboard design for a potential movie that portrays him as a villain.
Peter Rabbit 2 Filming Locations
Filming for Peter Rabbit 2 took place at Ambleside and Haverthwaite in the Lake District, in and around London’s Hill Street and Richmond Bridge, at Gloucester Docks, and in a mock-up of the House of the Tailor of Gloucester. This is just one of the meticulously coordinated English-style sets found in Camden and Centennial Park, New South Wales.
This is the reason why Peter Rabbit and Peter Rabbit 2 were not only filmed in the Lake District National Park but also in Australia. Sydney-based Animal Logic created the animation for Will Gluck’s adaptation of the Beatrix Potter books.
Fortunately, there was convincingly European vegetation planted in Centennial Park, which is located between Fox Studios and Bondi Beach. The most difficult task, as it turned out, was replicating the natural light of the UK in Australia, where sunlight is more intense.
The group developed a large-scale solution that was applied during the Sydney filming of the two Peter Rabbit films. Thankfully, though, the Lake District National Park makes an appearance in the movie. And other scenes have amazing attention to detail in matching UK locations.
April 2019, one year ahead of Peter Rabbit 2’s original release date, saw filming around the Compston Road toy store. In New South Wales, Australia, Rose Byrne and Domnhall Gleeson also filmed scenes around a toy store.
What is the true tale behind the location of Bea and Thomas’s toy store, then? Locals saw the Ambleside photo shoot going on, with McGregor’s Toy Shop signage adorning the toy shop. Thus, we believe that the Ambleside footage used in the Peter Rabbit 2 toy shop scenes is authentic, with some Australian footage added for the action sequences.
In the center of the Lake District is the World of Beatrix Potter attraction, and Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway serves authentic Beatrix Potter country. Naturally, the landscape that served as the model for the author’s original Peter Rabbit illustrations can be found all around you.
Above Waterstones on the intersection of Hill Street and Red Lion Street in Richmond, the billboard location from Peter Rabbit 2 is depicted. Naturally, the best location for Beatrix Potter book characters to appear is above a bookstore.
In the movie, Cottontail, Flopsy, Mopsy, Benjamin, Peter, and Cottontail are all overjoyed to see their pictures on billboards. Regretfully, CGI was used to add Peter Rabbit and his pals, but you might still find one of their books inside the store.
This sequence is fairly accurate in terms of geography; Richmond Bridge is the bridge where Mr. MgGregor and Peter Rabbit’s car trouble starts. The unlikely pair’s route actually works, even though it’s not at all like Gloucester.
Teddington Cheese is a real cheese shop in Richmond, and it serves as the Pemberley Cheeses shop location in Peter Rabbit 2. In Peter Rabbit 2, the name Pemberley Cheeses appears multiple times, and at pivotal points, a wheel of Pemberley Cheese causes havoc.
It’s a nice bit of continuity to see the shop finally make an appearance on screen, but you’ll have to move quickly to catch it. The scene where Mr. McGregor pushes his car uphill is the last one in which we see the shopfront in the background. In the picture, The Victoria Inn, its neighbour, can be seen with its own signs.
