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late July: Some reshoots in the Portland area
late July: Mt. St. Helens!!!!!
5/19-5/22: Rumored filming in Portland; they seem to have wrapped, but not clear when.
5/12-??: Filming near the wreck of the Peter Iredale, just outside Astoria, Oregon
5/5-5/10: Not sure if they went out to the Washington/Oregon area, or if they did indeed go to Louisiana. Given the lack of any news at all, sounds like shooting is really locked down or maybe they're taking some time off. There is a rumor that they will be shooting in Portland, Oregon shortly. As of 5/12, Charlize Theron was in New York City.
5/1-5/3(?): Conneaut Lake Park, Pennsylvania
4/23-4/30: Presque Isle (on Lake Erie). Rumored Guy Pearce sighting around 4/24. The 5/27 New York Times article says Michael K. Williams filmed during the Lake Erie shoot.
4/21-4/22: Reports that some filming is going on at Lake Erie's Presque Isle, but they may also have been filming the bunker scenes in the old Benkovitz warehouse in the Strip District in Pittsburgh at the beginning of the week.
4/19: They may have shot in Greentree today, fairly close to the Parkway (behind the WDVE building). If they did film in Greentree (a smallish town just west of Pittsburgh), that's the second movie this month to have shot there as Shelter also shot for a day or two.
4/14-4/18: Probably still shooting north of Pittsburgh - haven't heard any news this week. Could be filming in studio (perhaps the bunker scenes?) as the weather outside has been unseasonably springy and very unRoad-like.
4/10-4/11: New Galilee, PA (farm area used for the outside of the bunker scenes).
4/8-4/9: Possible filming in the Duquesne/McKeesport /Rankin area, in an old church. Any confirmation of this would be appreciated.
4/7: At another farm, in a corn field, this time in Saxonburg.
4/4-4/5: Hozak Christmas Tree Farm, Hanover Township (west of Pittsburgh). The movie trucks were there on 4/4 and gone on 4/6. The farm appears to overlook part of Raccoon State Park.
3/31-4/3 Seems to be an "off week," at least for the first unit. Viggo was in Argentina, and it's hard to film too much without him! Maybe some second unit work is going on. Also, I saw a bunch of The Road production trailers in a parking lot today. Normally, those trailers are...well, on the road at a location somewhere.
Late March: Filming at Frankfort Mineral Springs, in Beaver County near a waterfall.
March 25-28: Robert Duvall is in the building! He's was rumored to be "the old man" for some time and now it's got to be official (or a wild coincidence) as at least two people reported seeing him. The Road filmed in the area of the "Nemacolin Gob Pile." One look tells you why they'd want to film in one of the areas of coal waste in Western Pennsylvania:
March 17-20: The "cellar scene" was shot in the Fanker Mansion outside of Pittsburgh. The make-up for the cellar people is absolutely phenomenal (I can't share a photo with you at this time, but will link to some as soon as I'm able). It's frightening and ghastly without being overdone - a very fine line to travel in this scene.
March 11-15: The production crew moved to Raccoon State Park on Tuesday, March 11 and started filming thereafter. According to the Beaver Valley Times, a member of the crew said they'd been filming woods scenes, a cave scene and some field scenes at this location.
March 3-7: Some filming took place near Gans, PA, on the unopened portion of Route 43.
Late February/Early March: Filming on a now-closed segment of the Pennsylvania turnpike in late February and early March, including a cannibal attack scene.
Late February: Some filming was done in North Braddock, Rankin and Duquesne. It sounds like the garage sequence may have been filmed there, and possibly city scenes taken from the river.
In February, we heard that unidentified movie producers negotiated with Conneaut Lake Park to do some filming. After weeks of speculation, it turned out The Road filmed there for a few days in May.
While I have not seen the script, I understand that much of it follows the book closely, including the ending. The scene where Father has to use one of his bullets sounded like it was straight out of the book.