More Terminator (2019) Locations and Possible Schwarzenegger Filming Start

Terminator (2019) filming is spreading and very hard to keep a lock on but that helps the secrecy of the movie, it also makes us wonder if any of the locations that have been used so far have been red-herrings or faux locations to distract media and press from the really meaty stuff. Notice how we’ve only really seen the cast in one location… we find that interesting.

The main bulk of the following reports apparently began filming yesterday (Monday 25th of June) even though crews have been present for a while prepping the area… (quoted content in this report is translated)

Terminator (2019) Locations – Buendía and in Villaseca de la Sagra

Large preparations have been underway for scenes involving a train which we have reported on a while ago…

abc.es reports:

The dozens of trucks and all the equipment that moves a “Hollywood film” arrived on June 18. And they will leave on Tuesday, a day after the scene of a train in motion is rolled, on the old line that raised the stone and the fuel to the cement factory of Lafarge and that connects with that of Madrid-Badajoz. For this purpose, a dozen train cars have been arranged. It is unknown if the main actors will participate in the recording.

ENCLM reports:

The legendary saga starring Arnold Schwarzenegger lands in the Buendía reservoir, where an action scene will be filmed and they will also record some shots in Villaseca de la Sagra (Toledo), next to the train tracks

Preparation for more filming continues by the Terminator (2019) crew…

After passing through the Madrid district of Lavapies , the filming of Terminator 6 reaches the Buendía reservoir, just in the part that corresponds to the municipality of Sacedón, in the Real Sitio de la Isabela . The blockbuster Hollywood has also reached Villaseca de la Sagra (Toledo), where today a scene will be shot next to the train tracks.

There have been working during the weekend the operators to have everything ready for the filming of an action scene in the coming days, as has been able to know encastillalamancha.es . Filming will last between three and four days, plus the necessary assembly and disassembly of everything raised to record this action scene, which will also be part of water, which is why the reservoir has been selected to shoot. From the producer they looked for personnel for surveillance and security of the shooting in the municipality of Sacedón, since they want to keep the greatest privacy possible. The area where it is recorded is difficult to access, so in the place, at least during the weekend, there were very few onlookers.

ENCLM reveals when Schwarzenegger is expected to shoot:

Austrian Arnold Schwarzenegger , although it is not expected to go to Spain until the filming is moved to Murcia.

This would point to Arnold possibly coming to Spain soon to shoot Airport scenes/action.

The report continues:

The director Miller was a few weeks ago to give the go-ahead to the filming area next to the Spa of Isabela, which was submerged under the Buendía reservoir when it was built, although now it has been uncovered for more than a year due to the low level of water that this swamp presents.

Since filming is located a little away from the town, in Sacedón the arrival of this Hollywood blockbuster has not yet raised much of a stir, although as days go by, it is certain that at the head of the Tagus the arrival of the Terminator leaves no one indifferent. .

In addition to the Lavapiés neighborhood, the shooting of Terminator 6 has already gone through Almeria and in the following dates it will travel to Catral (Alicante) and Murcia.

Filming began yesterday for train scenes that were potentially glimpsed in the Dani Ramos Audition script…

Not only in the Buendía reservoir will Terminator 6 be shot. In the town of Villaseca de la Sagra, Toledo will also record a scene on the train tracks. Apparently in the take a train with Mexican passengers will leave. The recording will take place today, from this morning until dawn. The selected place is the place between “Los Pilares” and “Prado viejo”, on the railway line that goes from Villaseca de la Sagra to Villaluenga de la Sagra, next to the halt . The assembly began five days ago and the only day of filming is today.

In the town the arrival of Terminator 6 is taking with total normality, since the filming is not hampering life in the municipality of Toledo and they are taking it as an attraction rather than comment during these days.

Terminator 6 is leaving employment in the village. Between 20 and 25 people are working on the safety of the shooting, controlling the roads and access roads to the point where it will record, as indicated from the local council.

Drone Filming for Castilla-La Mancha Aerial Shots

Another report by elconfidencialdeciudadreal.com points to drone filming to capture expansive aerial shots for the movie and also the deactivation of a treatment plant to cease electromagnetic waves that could interfere with audiovisual equipment:

The shooting of Terminator 6 arrives this Monday in Castilla-La Mancha, and throughout the day will capture aerial images through drones from areas such as the La Sagra region that will serve to illustrate the external scenes of the film, set in Mexico.

According to Europa Press confirmed from the regional government, between 2:00 pm and 3:00 pm on Monday it will even be necessary to stop momentarily the activity of the new treatment plant that is put into operation in Mocejón so that the electromagnetic waves emitted by the plant do not interfere with the drones that will be used.

Some 250 extras have been hired to cover this part of the shoot, which will also arrive on Monday at the Buendía reservoir, between the provinces of Cuenca and Guadalajara, at the Real Sitio de la Isabela.

cuencanews.es has additional information on the drone shoot and even the lowering of water levels on a set…

The shooting team of the famous Arnold Schwarzenegger saga “Terminator” is today taking pictures of several areas of Castilla-La Mancha for the sixth installment of the film in the Tagus Valley area in La Sagra (Toledo) and Buendía (Cuenca) ).

According to sources of the regional government, the president himself, Emiliano García-Page, today revealed a curiosity about the shooting during the inauguration of the new wastewater treatment plant (ETAP) “La Sagra Baja”, which will serve to the Toledo localities of Olías del Rey, Bargas, Mocejón, Magán, Cabañas de la Sagra and Villaseca de la Sagra.

Thus, the film crew has requested a permit from the Castilian-Manchego Executive to record images with a drone from the upper part of the Tagus Valley, for which it needs the purification plant that has just been installed from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Start-up stops working so that the electromagnetic waves it emits do not interfere with the taking of images.

The same sources have confirmed that the crew of “Terminator 6” is also filming in the reservoir of Buendía, in the province of Cuenca, and specifically in the Royal Site of La Isabela, an old spa of a historic monastery that had been submerged but has come to light when lowering the water level of this area.

In addition, the film crew, with the intermediation of the Film Commission of Castilla-La Mancha, has requested the participation of 250 extras in the filming of the scenes that will take place in the region, but has not specified in which places will be made.

Look at all the effort going into these real locations; quite impressive so far. Hopefully the sheer magnitude of effort going into this production is going to show on screen and we so want this movie to be great. As our expectations continue to rise- surely the pressure is mounting on the studios but pressure and stress is a good thing and hopefully the struggle will be worth it all.

We finish with some videos of locations courtesy of @CMM_noticias and you can read their report here.