The Dog Stars (2026)

Trasaghis, Italy

This lake in the Tagliamento valley is also known as Lake Cavazzo and Lago dei Tre Comuni, named after the three municipalities that share its shores.

The scene : It is on the wooded shores of this lake that the Italian shoot begins: the forested shoreline and the steep reliefs that surround it form the first fragment of the depopulated Colorado that Hig traverses.

Bordano, Italy

Landing area operated by ASD Volo Libero Friuli, in a small Friulian municipality dominated by Monte San Simeone.

The scene : This very real flying field becomes the abandoned airfield where Hig and Bangley entrenched their fortified home: the crew set up hangars, a control tower, and prepared a runway for the film's Cessna.

Tambre, Italy

A vast pre-Alpine beech forest of about 7,000 hectares straddling Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, renowned for its karst relief, dolines, and sinkholes.

The scene : The beech forest of Cansiglio provides the film with its landscapes of deep woods: it is in these woods, and not in computer-generated images, that the wild Colorado takes shape beyond the territory of Hig.

Polcenigo, Italy

The scene : This village backed by the Cansiglio is one of the anchor points chosen by Ridley Scott on set to compose the backdrop of the story.

Fregona, Italy

Vallorch is one of the villages of Cansiglio founded by the Cimbrian community, a German-speaking minority established on the plateau.

The scene : Nestled in the heart of the Cansiglio forest, this hamlet is among the settings of the film's forest chapter.

Fregona, Italy

The scene : Ridley Scott chose this location on the plateau among the shooting points for the crossing of Cansiglio.

Tambre, Italy

The scene : Cimbre village of the plateau, listed among the filming locations of Cansiglio.

L'Aquila, Italy

General aviation aerodrome located in Preturo, at the gates of L'Aquila.

The scene : The Preturo aerodrome plays a central role in the film: its hangar houses the fortified farm where Hig and Bangley took refuge after the pandemic.

Ovindoli, Italy

Valley lined with beech forests, mountainous slopes, and open combes, from which several hiking trails depart.

The scene : This high-altitude valley is, according to the filming sources, the most prominent natural setting of the film: its slopes and beech forests outline the mountain horizon that encircles Hig's shelter.

Secinaro, Italy

The scene : The heights around Secinaro provide part of the open mountainous terrain that surrounds the fortified farm.

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Abruzzo Regional Natural Park, straddling the Sirente and Velino mountain ranges.

The scene : The park offers the film its high plateaus, its limestone ridges, and its vast skies — everything that lends Hig's world its scale and desolation.

Avezzano, Italy

The scene : In May 2025, the industrial zone of Avezzano was dressed as a fragment of an abandoned world; the shoots were centered around this path.

Rome, Italy

The scene : The square forms the heart of the urban sequence: destroyed helicopters, wrecked cars, downed aircraft, and gutted facades create a post-catastrophe battlefield.

Rome, Italy

The scene : The palace closes off the perspective of the Roman sequence and serves as the backdrop for the field of ruins set up in the square.

Rome, Italy

The scene : This large artery of the EUR was strewn with burned vehicles and scorched vegetation to represent an American city left in abandonment.

Rome, Italy

The scene : The avenue is one of the redecorated routes of the EUR in the dead city: it is in these clear perspectives that one of the largest set pieces of the film was placed, a helicopter crushed between the buildings.

Rome, Italy

The scene : Rue de l'EUR integrated into the perimeter transformed into a devastated city, where the crash of a burning plane occurs between the buildings.

Rome, Italy

The scene : Last of the four roads of the EUR taken over by the production to create the setting of an abandoned city.

Rome, Italy

Nicknamed the "Square Colosseum", the palace is the landmark building of the EUR district.

The scene : Iconic building of the EUR, the palace borders the shooting perimeter of the urban sequence, on the Viale della Civiltà del Lavoro.

Rome, Italy

Working-class neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome.

The scene : This popular neighborhood on the outskirts of Rome also hosted scenes from the urban sequence.

Rome, Italy

One of the major production complexes in Europe, featuring stages, workshops, set construction facilities, and a large backlot.

The scene : The studios served as an Italian base camp: interiors and controlled environment scenes were shot there while the crew moved from region to region.

Manziana, Italy

Dense and isolated forest near Manziana, northwest of Rome.

The scene : The Italian shoot ends in this dense wood to the northwest of Rome, whose isolation provides the final chapter of the film's landscapes.

Iver Heath, United Kingdom

Large British film studio founded in 1936 in Iver Heath, birthplace of the James Bond saga.

The scene : The English studios hosted the wrap-up of the controlled environment shoot once the Italian filming was completed. Production sources do not tie any specific scene to a given set.