'Finch': Where was the Tom Hanks post-apocalyptic flick filmed?
'Finch' marks Academy Award winner Tom Hanks return to Apple TV+ after 'Greyhound'. The 65-year-old plays a robotics engineer and presumably the lone survivor in post-apocalyptic earth living with his dog Goodyear. When he realizes his days are numbered, he creates a robot, Jeff, to take care of his dog. The movie follows the trio's journey where the robot learns what it is to be human.
The official synopsis reads: "A robot that lives on a post-apocalyptic earth which was built to protect the life of his dying creator's beloved dog, it learns about love, friendship, and the meaning of human life." Hanks was last seen on the Apple TV platform in a war flick 'Greyhound' that saw Hanks' Lieutenant Commander Ernest Krause who led an international convoy of 37 Allied ships over the treacherous North Atlantic while being pursued by wolfpacks of German U-boats.
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Ahead of 'Finch's release, the locations of the film were creating the buzz. Originally known as 'BIOS', the film was later retitled 'Finch' and had quite a few locations that helped paint the picture of a desolate planet. Per Sceen-it, the movie was shot in parts of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Santa Fe, Shiprock, Los Lunas, Socorro, and White Sands. Other popular movies that were filmed at White Sands include — 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen', 'Clint Eastwood's 'Hang'em High', and George Clooney's 'The Men who stare at Goats'.
Talking about the film, Hanks, according to Radio Times, said, “When we made this film – well before the words ‘COVID-19’ were even in the vernacular – we were making a bit of science-fiction, and a glorious bit of science-fiction, familiar in many ways (there’s been a lot of ‘last human beings left on planet Earth’ type films before), with the new wrinkle of Seamus the dog [who plays Goodyear] – that was new.”
“Now, after all of this – if you can be so bold as to suggest – there is a sort of theoretical worst-case scenario here. Let’s imagine that the virus was even stronger and more deadly than it was,” he added. “It’s interesting – I saw the movie not too long ago and there’s a scene where Finch explains to Jeff what happened, how society broke down, and it goes back to something almost as benign as a solar flare. That’s almost reassuring – that’s not a slow-moving contagion that goes about and kills everybody."
'Finch' releases November 5 on Apple TV+
