Filmed in Bulgaria: Assassin’s Bullet
By accident I stumbled across a trailer for the upcoming movie Assassin’s Bullet. Though the movie looks like your typical spy/assassin/thriller movie, what caught my attention while watching it was the familiar streets of Sofia, Bulgaria. So I did some research and apparently they filled pretty much everything in Bulgaria and are actually using Sofia as the main city in the movie.
All I can say is: IT’S ABOUT TIME.
When movies are filmed in Sofia, they’re generally used as as a backdrop for other European cities like Prague or Budapest. (Jean-Claude Van Damme has filmed a lot of his movies there.) It’s nice to see Sofia actually getting credit for being Sofia instead of pretending its a more glamours Eastern European city. I have no idea where the outdoor scenes were filmed but I didn’t see anything that would make me think that it wasn’t Bulgaria.
The only thing that makes me cringe is how the actors say “Sofia.” Westerners pronounce it so-FEE-a but Bulgarians put the emphasis on the first syllable: SO-fee-a. Yeah, you’d think they would have done their homework but since when have movie makers worried about accuracy?
You can watch the trailer for Assassin’s Bullet below.
3 comments July 20th, 2012