Where was Elysium filmed?
2013 film directed by Neill Blomkamp
Elysium (2013) was filmed in Vancouver — 1 recorded filming location in Canada. It is a filming-location statement on Wikidata, not a guess.
See them on the map → Wikipedia Source data
Filming locations
Also per Wikipedia's Production section
Wikipedia’s Production section names 3 more places. A sentence in an article is weaker evidence than a Wikidata statement, so these are listed apart, never mixed into the statement list, and the claim links straight to where it came from.
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🏙 Towns & cities
Detroit
🇺🇸 United States
city in and county seat of Wayne County, and largest city in State of Michigan, United States
“The role was then offered to rapper Eminem, but he wanted the film to be shot in Detroit.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Mexico City
🇲🇽 Mexico
capital and largest city of Mexico
“The film's Earth-bound scenes were shot in a dump in the poor Iztapalapa district on the outskirts of Mexico City.” Wikipedia
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🏙 Towns & cities
Huixquilucan Municipality
🇲🇽 Mexico
municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico
Recorded only at country level
Wikidata also records this film as shot in Mexico, without saying where. Those statements are true but unmappable — a pin in the middle of a country would claim something nobody wrote — so they are listed here instead of guessed at.
Also shot in these places
- Titanic 1997
- The X-Files 1993–2018
- 2012 2009
- Deadpool 2016
- Man of Steel 2013
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell no Tales 2017
- First Blood 1982
- Jumanji 1995
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon 2009
- X2 2003
- I, Robot 2004
- X-Men: The Last Stand 2006
Set in the same places
- Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games
- Mario Kart Tour
- Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
- Detroit: Become Human
- Deus Ex: Human Revolution
- SimCity
- Asphalt Xtreme
- RoboCop: Rogue City per its source work 2023
More filmed in Canada
Every filming location in Canada →
Frequently asked questions
How many filming locations does Elysium have?
1 place recorded on Wikidata, and 3 places named in its Wikipedia article, labelled per Wikipedia, across Canada.
Which other productions were filmed at the same places?
Titanic (1997), The X-Files (1993–2018), 2012 (2009), Deadpool (2016) and 8 more, each listed on this page.
Where does this information come from?
Filming location statements on Wikidata, plus places named in the production's own Wikipedia article, which are labelled per Wikipedia. Nothing is scraped from listicles and nothing is generated.