Universal Pictures are reportedly targeting an early July date for the resumption of filming on “Jurassic World: Dominion” in the UK where the coronavirus pandemic is still rampant.
The project was four weeks into a twenty-week shoot before filming had to be suspended. The reason they’re reportedly able to resume is due to a series of rigorous health protocols that will be put in place at Pinewood Studios with around $5 million being spent on the new measures.
These include the commission of a private medical facility called Your Doctor to manage the entire production’s medical requirements including testing all cast and crew before they start on the production and then at times throughout (including antibody testing). Cast and crew members flying from the U.S. to London will be tested prior to their travels and will be quarantined in London for two weeks upon arrival.
Thousands of tests are expected to be carried out over the shoot period. All crew will be temperature tested every day and not allowed on site until complete. Two walk-through temperature testing stations are being built at each end of Pinewood Studios with capacity of 1,000 crew over two hours. Each test station will have a compliment of doctors, nurses and isolation booths.
There’s also a full COVID training program for all staff and specific training for specialist groups. Around 1,800 signs are being put up across Pinewood and more on location to remind crew to limit numbers in various locations and the need for social distancing.
150 hand sanitizer stations are also being added, as are an extra 60 sinks. All crew members will also be given an individual hand sanitizer bottle when they start.
A large cleaning team will continually clean all the touch points across the site in addition to all common areas, toilets, welfare and kitchens using specialist antiviral sprays appropriate to the situation.
In the evenings all toilets, communal areas, welfare areas, kitchens, trucks and sets will be antiviral fogged. Props, grip, SFX and camera will use specialized antistatic cleaning systems.
A Greenzone is being setup for the shooting cast and crew which will have an enhanced testing environment and will stop any untested crew from coming in as a further measure to prevent any spread of COVID.
Universal will have additional security detail maintaining the temperature testing centers and a further team who will check crew are eligible to go into the protected greenzones.
The measures will make the film the first major feature originally intended to be released Summer 2021 to resume production.
Source: Deadline
