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Where was Elysium filmed?

2013 film, directed by Neill Blomkamp.

  • Mexico

The story is set in Los Angeles, about 1,244 miles (2,003 km) from where it was filmed.

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Where it’s set vs. where it was filmed

Set in
Los Angeles; Elysium
Filmed in
Mexico
Distance
About 1,244 miles (2,003 km) between Los Angeles and the nearest filming location.
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About Elysium

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Released
2013
Director
Neill Blomkamp
Cast
Matt DamonJodie FosterWilliam FichtnerAlice BragaDiego LunaMichael ShanksSharlto CopleyTalisa SotoCarly PopeMaxwell Perry Cotton
Genre
ThrillerAction ThrillerDystopianScience Fiction ActionScience Fiction

In 2154, Earth is overpopulated, diseased, and heavily polluted from ecocide.

Carlyle writes the program and stores it inside his brain.

Max demands that the target be his former boss, Carlyle.

Famous lines from Elysium

Could you name the film from one of these? Famous lines turn up in the daily game.

  • John Keats, Mermaid Tavern.Elysium
  • John Milton, Comus, line 256.Elysium
  • Friedrich Schiller, An die Freude, Stanza 1.Elysium
  • Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul. And lap it in Elysium.Elysium
  • William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 3, Richard of Gloucester, scene ii.Elysium

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