City Of Ember

City Of Ember

2008

Two resourceful teenagers living underground in the dying city of Ember race to decode an ancient message that could lead their people back to the surface world before the city's power fails for good. Based on Jeanne DuPrau's novel, starring Saoirse Ronan and Bill Murray.

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Director

  • Gil Kenan

Cast

  • David Ryall
  • Tim Robbins
  • Bill Murray
  • Harry Treadaway
  • Toby Jones
  • Lucinda Dryzek
  • Matt Jessup
  • Lara McIvor
  • Myles Thompson

Filming Locations

  • Belfast

    A number of locations around the city were used including Maysfield Leisure Centre and Belfast Methodist College.

  • Cave Hill

    Cave Hill in Belfast provided exterior landscape and rocky terrain used as part of the visual backdrop for the underground city of Ember.

  • Harland and Wolff

    The former Harland and Wolff Paint Hall in Belfast's Titanic Quarter, one of the world's largest soundstages, was converted into the subterranean city of Ember, with its enormous scale allowing construction of the full underground cityscape.