An Apple TV+ show from Ridley Scott is filming around Philly
Crews have been filming in Old City and West Philadelphia, as well as several locations in Upper Bucks County, for the crime drama.
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Film crews seen in Old City and West Philadelphia have been linked to a new Ridley Scott project for Apple TV+.
The project has the working title Catamount, a limited-run drama that is based on the crime novel Dope Thief by Dennis Tafoya, who grew up in Philadelphia and lives in Bucks County. Actor Bryan Tyree Henry (of FX’s Atlanta), who is nominated for a best supporting actor Academy Award for his work in Apple TV+’s Causeway, stars in the show.
Philadelphia Redditors linked street closures between Market and Walnut Streets and Second and Third Streets in Old City to the project, as well as another set of closures on Spruce and Pine Streets in West Philly last week.
A representative from Apple TV+ confirmed that the show was filming in Old City onThursday but would not be filming in Center City for the rest of Episode 1′s shoot.
The eight-episode series is based in Philadelphia and follows a group of friends who pose as Drug Enforcement Administration agents to rob a house in the countryside, eventually unraveling one of the East Coast’s biggest narcotics enterprises. Ridley Scott, who directed films like Alien and Blade Runner and also House of Gucci, has signed on as an executive producer and director.
Catamount is reportedly set to film in locations across the Philadelphia region through July, and has already scouted locations in several Bucks County townships, including Bedminster, Tinicum, and Bristol. The show will also film at Sun Studios in Aston.