Romantic dramedy ‘Young Werther’ films at Liuna Station

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Liuna Station is standing in for another part of the world in a new film shooting in town.

The James Street North banquet hall — the former CN passenger station — is playing a German railway station in the romantic dramedy "Young Werther."

The station was decked out with German signs while the film shot there last Monday. It's possible the signs hanging between the pillars of the landmark will be on screen for a fleeting second. Or maybe in a dream sequence.

The main sign says ‘Idyllische Landschaft des Bahnhofs Walheim’ and it translates into English as ‘Idyllic landscape of Walheim railroad station.’ Other signs tell visitors where to find platforms 1-8 and 9-12. Walheim is a village near Stuttgart with a one-platform station.

Earlier this year, Liuna Station played a Washington, D.C., museum for the Amazon Prime detective show "Alex Cross," based on the James Patterson books.

"Young Werther" is an adaptation of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and is about a young sensitive artist's unrequited love for Charlotte, who is the fiancee to Albert.

Goethe (1749-1832) is considered Germany's greatest poet and playwright and his 1774 book was one of the world's first bestselling books.

Werther is played by Douglas Booth ("That Dirty Black Bag"). Charlotte is played by Alison Pill ("Scott Pilgrim vs. the World") and Patrick J. Adams ("Suits" and "The Swearing Jar," which shot in Hamilton in 2021) plays Albert. It is being made by Wildling Pictures, which made the David Bowie biopic "Stardust" and the comedy "Suze" in Hamilton over the last few years.

"Young Werther" filmed at the Scottish Rite between May 24-27 and at Confederation Park last Monday.

It is the first feature from director Jose Lourenco. He also wrote the script.

"I was first introduced to Goethe's ‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ in university," Lourenco said in a statement. "Intense, highly emotional, oddly funny — the book instantly enchanted me. ‘Werther’ is a 250-year-old tale that gripped the lovelorn across Europe upon publication and its themes of requited/unrequited love and complex friendship remain relevant today."

Look for the RBG Arboretum in the fourth and final season of "The Umbrella Academy."

Netflix's wildly popular, twisted and time travelling superhero show — which has filmed in Hamilton since 2018 — filmed last Monday at the Old Guelph Road nature centre. It was shooting scenes near the front gate.

The show announced on Twitter May 31 filming for the final season was done. The last episode is called "The End of Beginning."

The show about the Hargreeves family — Sir Reginald and his seven adopted superhero children — began filming in the area at an indoor playground in Burlington in February. It shot a car crash in March on Brant Street, near Wentworth Street North, in Hamilton. The show stars Colm Feore and Elliot Page.

Last month, the production shot in downtown Brantford in what the city described in a release as "a pivotal bank-heist scene" involving 125 extras.

If you watch Arnold Schwarzenegger's new adventure comedy "Fubar" on Netflix, and see the scene where he is riding a motorcycle at a warehouse, know this: that's Hamilton.

Schwarzenegger filmed that scene at the warehouse on Brockley Drive in east Hamilton in May 2022. Other locales include a Sanford Avenue South warehouse, LG Film Studios (formerly Lloyd George school) on Beach Road and Valens Conservation Area.

The production shot at the Flamborough park in May 2022 and it's likely the scenes involving a jeep chase and a van destroyed in an explosion. Cast and crew were at the park for two weeks and there were special effects explosions and gunfire.

"Fubar" is about a retired CIA agent who goes on one last mission to help an agent, who turns out to be his daughter. The show also shot in Oakville, Mississauga, Toronto and Antwerp, Belgium.

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