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Some moms and dads want to tightly manage their kids. Some, like Caleb\u2019s dad in Crater<\/em>, want you to take off with friends in a stolen space buggy and explore a mysterious black moon pit to get some fresh air.<\/p>\n Hey, different parents, different strategies. It feels entirely appropriate that \u201cfree-roaming moon children\u201d might be a trending parenting strategy in 2023.<\/p>\n What\u2019s impressive about a saga set almost 239,000 miles away is that it was filmed at about 56 feet above sea level in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n Crater<\/em> is the latest Baton Rouge-filmed project to land on the Disney+ platform, following the National Treasure: Edge of History<\/em> series<\/a>, which aired its Season One finale back in February. Of course, as experts on both Louisiana filmmaking and the moon (very, very casual experts on the moon), we wanted to explore a preliminary dive into a Baton Rouge project but also a Shawn Levy<\/a> project, the producer behind major fantasy-adventure series like Stranger Things<\/em> and Shadow and Bone<\/em> and the director of the upcoming Deadpool 3<\/em>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/fablehouse.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Crater-Baton-Rouge-02-res.jpg” alt=”Space adventure ‘Crater’ filmed in Baton Rouge” title_text=”Space adventure ‘Crater’ filmed in Baton Rouge” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”30px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#adadad” text_font_size=”13px” text_letter_spacing=”1px” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n photo credit: Walt Disney Studios<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Taking the darker sensibilities of those shows and distilling them into a middle-grade nostalgia adventure might bring a unique edge to Crater<\/em>, and we\u2019re here for it.<\/p>\n The spoilers, the logistics, whether or not five kids in a moon buggy become roving cannibal moon pirates – here\u2019s what\u2019s worth talking about for the Disney+ Original, Crater<\/em>.<\/i><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|600|||||||” header_2_font_size=”23px” header_2_letter_spacing=”0.5px” header_2_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”20px” header_2_font_size_phone=”19px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n *This paragraph contains a spoiler!*<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n This is a subtle but savvy marketing angle – in the Crater<\/em> trailer, Caleb\u2019s father (played by Scott Mescudi), is very much alive. But the official Disney plot synopsis for Crater<\/em>, <\/i>as reported by Collider<\/a>, is this:<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ text_letter_spacing=”1px” custom_padding=”|||15px|false|false” border_width_left=”5px” border_color_left=”#ff0000″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Crater is the story of Caleb Channing, who was raised on a lunar mining colony and is about to be permanently relocated to an idyllic faraway planet following the death of his father. But before leaving, to fulfill his dad\u2019s last wish, he and his three best friends, Dylan, Borney, and Marcus, and a new arrival from Earth, Addison, hijack a rover for one final adventure on a journey to explore a mysterious crater.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n So, they immediately reveal that there will be an early on-screen death, and this implies that Crater<\/em> wants to be a film known for its emotional heft. Whatsondisneyplus.com called it<\/a> a \u201ccoming-of-age film in the vein of Stand by Me<\/em>\u201d. Put this together with the creative team behind Crater<\/em> and you have a film that is prepared to leave an emotional imprint on Young Adult audiences.<\/p>\n Besides Producer Shawn Levy, the film\u2019s creative team also included Producer Dan Levine<\/a> (Shadow and Bone<\/em>, <\/i>Arrival<\/em>), Cinematographer Jas Shelton<\/a> (Homecoming<\/em>, <\/i>The Stanford Prison Experiment<\/em>), and Producer Dan Cohen<\/a> (Stranger Things<\/em>, <\/i>Love and Monsters<\/em>), among others with a history of gravitating to darker material.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/fablehouse.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Crater-Baton-Rouge-04-res-1.jpg” alt=”Space adventure ‘Crater’ filmed in Baton Rouge” title_text=”Space adventure ‘Crater’ filmed in Baton Rouge” show_bottom_space=”off” _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”30px||5px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#adadad” text_font_size=”13px” text_letter_spacing=”1px” text_line_height=”1.5em” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n photo credit: Walt Disney Studios<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|600|||||||” header_2_font_size=”23px” header_2_letter_spacing=”0.5px” header_2_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”20px” header_2_font_size_phone=”19px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Umm, well the moon soil was imported by a local construction company, the planetary space was trucked in on flatbeds\u2013Okay, not quite.<\/p>\n Crater<\/em> was filmed at Baton Rouge\u2019s Celtic Studios<\/a>, which houses close to 150,000 feet of stage space for productions<\/a>. Celtic Studios offers all of the post-production needs that Crater<\/em> would require and could hold a world that felt like Caleb and his friends were realistically adrift on a moon colony.<\/p>\n WBRZ reported in spring 2021<\/a> that Crater<\/em> would be one of the first post-Covid films to ramp up production in Baton Rouge. The original production estimates were that the film would employ 325 crew members and 400 extras. According to IMDB<\/a>, Crater<\/em> was a two-month shoot that began in June 2021 and was wrapped by the end of August.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|600|||||||” header_2_font_size=”23px” header_2_letter_spacing=”0.5px” header_2_line_height=”1.4em” custom_margin=”||10px||false|false” header_2_font_size_tablet=”20px” header_2_font_size_phone=”19px” header_2_font_size_last_edited=”on|phone” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.2″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Yeah, there could be a bias factor here because they were both filmed in Baton Rouge, but here are the parallels:\u00a0<\/p>\nAudiences already know about a major film death in Crater<\/em><\/h2>\n
So\u2026how did they turn Baton Rouge into the moon for Crater <\/em>?<\/h2>\n
Crater<\/em> has a strong resemblance to the formula of National Treasure: Edge of History<\/em><\/h2>\n
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