X-Men: Apocalypse filmed in Montreal

Bryan Singer’s production built nearly 60 separate sets at Mel’s facility. A wall separating two of the stages was taken down to accommodate the sheer scale of the set for the ‘X-Mansion’, home to psychic X-Men father-figure Professor Charles Xavier.

The studio sets and nearby exterior locations were all used to recreate settings including both ancient and modern-day Egypt, as well as East Germany, Poland and the US of the early 1980s.

Quebec offers a base 20% filming incentive, plus a 16% tax credit for visual effects work. The X-Men movies are the highest-profile productions to have filmed in the eastern province. Smaller projects have included Robert Zemeckis’ The Walk, Roland Emmerich’s Stonewall and Saoirse Ronan's Oscar-nominated romantic drama Brooklyn.

Since launching 16 years ago, the X-Men franchise has filmed largely in Vancouver and Toronto over the course of eight movies. Hugh Jackman’s spinoff titles X-Men Origins: Wolverine and its first sequel The Wolverine took the franchise to Australia for the first time as Jackman’s star power grew.

X-Men: First Class – which introduced a younger cast alongside key veterans – was based in the UK when British filmmaker Matthew Vaughn took the director’s chair.

For more on filming on Quebec see our production guide.

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