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How a Nova Scotia film crew built a fake town in Beaver Bank

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A Nova Scotia film crew built an entire city on a piece of land in Beaver Bank for the television show From.

Set is used for exterior and interior shots for the From show

CBC news ·

An actor stands for dinner on a movie set. The sky is cloudy.
Eion Bailey, who plays Jim Matthews, is seen in front of the town’s diner. The diner is built on set and used for indoor and outdoor shooting. (Chris Reardon/Epix)

There’s a town on a piece of land in Beaver Bank, but it’s unlike any other.

It’s full of mystery, monsters and fake buildings – and it was made for the television series By.

Produced in the Halifax area, the Paramount+ show is about a group of people who can’t escape a small town because the surrounding forests are full of man-eating humanoid creatures.

A woman and a man come face to face in front of an old house.
Catalina Sandino Moreno, left, as Tabitha Matthews and Eion Bailey as Jim Matthews stand in front of one of the houses being built. (Chris Reardon/Epix)

The set was built in 2021 for the show’s first season. It features 10 buildings, including a church, a restaurant and a mansion, which are used for both outdoor and indoor shooting.

“It’s just unbelievable how fast it all went and how believable it is when you drive through it — it’s actually a city,” Kevin Lewis, the show’s head of the scenic department, told CBC Radio’s Information Morning Nova Scotia.

To hear more about the set and how it came about, listen to Information morning guest host Preston Mulligan’s full interview below.

Information morning – NS7:41Behind the scenes of a creepy NS production and the Beaver Bank set

The second season of the creepy TV series From will premiere in April. One of the main production people tells us how they built an entire city on a vacant lot in Beaver Bank.

A man in a suit stands on the road of a run-down town.
Harold Perrineau as Boyd Stevens is seen on a stretch of road on set. The buildings are built around a pre-existing road in Beaver Bank. (Chris Reardon/Epix)

Two men stand in a makeshift graveyard and look at each other. There is an old house and diner in the background.
Ricky He, left, as Kenny Liu and David Alpay as Jade Herrera stand in a makeshift graveyard across the street from the diner. (Chris Reardon/Epix)

With files from CBC Radio’s Information Morning Nova Scotia

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