Minority Report is a 2002 action science fiction movie directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on the 1956 short story “The Minority Report” by Philip K. Dick. The film is set in Washington, D.C., and Northern Virginia in the year 2054, where Precrime, a specialized police department, arrests criminals based on precognitions provided by three psychics called “precogs”.
The film was first optioned in 1992 as a sequel to another Dick adaptation, Total Recall (1990), with Arnold Schwarzenegger reprising his role as Doug Quaid. But after Total Recall’s production company Carolco Pictures filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the project was spun off as a standalone project and began development in 1997 after Spielberg and Cruise scored a script from Jon Cohen. Now, know about Minority Report movie filming locations.
Where Was Minority Report Movie Filmed?
“Minority Report” was filmed in California, Washington, DC, Virginia, Florida, and Maine, particularly in Los Angeles County, Gloucester County, Arlington County, Orlando, and Penobscot Bay.
According to reports, filming for the lead role of Colin Farrell began on March 22, 2001, and ended on July 18 of the same year.
California
Most of the scenes in ‘Minority Report’ were shot in Los Angeles County, the most populous county in California and the USA. Major portions were filmed at the historic Ambassador Hotel, a Mediterranean-style building at 3400 Wilshire Boulevard in the county seat of Los Angeles. Descanso Gardens, a sprawling 150-acre botanical park located at 1418 Descanso Drive in the suburbs of La Cañada-Flintridge, served as the backdrop for several sequences.
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Many of the film’s graphic-heavy scenes were shot in several film studios around the county. The famous Universal Studios, located at 100 Universal City Plaza in the unincorporated community of Universal City in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles County, provided its filming facilities. In addition, the team went to Warner Brothers Burbank Studios, a major production facility in Burbank, California’s studio district, at 4000 Warner Boulevard.
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And not only that, the facilities of the studio on Hennesy Street were used for filming purposes. It served as the location for a fight between Anderson and the police. Stages 14 and 15 at 20th Century Fox Studios, another historic Hollywood studio located at 10201 Pico Boulevard in the Century City neighborhood of Los Angeles, were used for several interior scenes. Several scenes were filmed at the El Dorado Lofts, an apartment building at 416 South Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles.
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Another scene showing brand new high-rises in the Washington, D.C. skyline was filmed at Angelus Plaza, an apartment complex at 255 South Hill Street. Additionally, scenes were filmed in Hawthorne, a city in southwest Los Angeles County. The city provided the location for the shoot at the now-defunct Hawthorne Plaza, which was at 12124 Hawthorne Boulevard.
Washington DC.
Since the majority of “Minority Report” is set in Washington, DC, the team decided to shoot there to give the story a sense of reality. The Willard InterContinental Hotel, a five-star establishment at 1401 M Street North West in Washington, served as the backdrop for several sequences.
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An office building known as the Ronald Reagan Federal Building, located at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue North West in Washington, DC, serves as PreCrime’s headquarters in the film. In addition, the crew filmed some sequences in the historic district of Georgetown. The Gap Showroom, located at 1258 Wisconsin Avenue North West in Washington, D.C. in the Georgetown area, was another notable manufacturing site.
Virginia
Several sequences of the Minority Report film were additionally shot in and around Virginia. The skyline of Rosslyn, Virginia can be seen as Anderton crosses the Potomac River. In one scene, he crosses a bridge to take Agatha to his wife’s house.
Indian Field Creek along the Colonial Parkway in Yorktown, Virginia is where the scene was filmed. Several images were taken at Virginia’s Beaverdam Park, a 635-acre park located at 8687 Roaring Springs Road in suburban Gloucester.
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The area served as the setting for many other sequences, some of which were filmed in the adjacent suburb of Nuttall. Ware Neck Yacht Club, a yacht club in the nearby Gloucester County community of Ware Neck, is located at 5992 Ware Point Road and next to the Ware Neck Marina. Additional filming took place on the banks of the Potomac River in metropolitan Arlington County.
Florida
Orlando, a mystical city in Central Florida and home to several theme parks, served as the location for further studio work. The team filmed sequences at Universal Studios Florida (also known as Universal Orlando Resort), a major film production facility and theme park located at 1000 Universal Studios Plaza in Orlando, Florida.
In addition, sequences were shot at nearby Infinite Horizon Studios, a subsidiary of Disney.
Maine
Minority Report movie cast and crew visited Penobscot Bay in southern Maine for filming. The area is known for its several useful waterfronts as it serves as an entrance to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Maine. The final panoramic shot of the film transports us to the tranquil, stunning setting of the coast.
Interestingly, the location featured in the sequence is Butter Island, a privately owned 310-acre island in East Penobscot Bay.
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