While the European Union will not lift travel restrictions on the U.S. due to the scale of the country’s ongoing coronavirus outbreak, Deadline reports that exceptions will be made in many countries for United States film and TV crew.
As of today travelers from 15 countries including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and China can cross borders into the EU, but the U.S. remains excluded alongside Brazil and Russia.
However, key countries with major production facilities including Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria have all confirmed they will still welcome U.S. shoots this summer, as long as they meet COVID-19 safety stipulations.
Some projects are reportedly already back underway. In the Czech Republic, filming on the third season of “Das Boot” is getting underway imminently while in Serbia the third season of The CW’s “Outpost” is already back at work.
Amazon’s “The Wheel of Time” series and the second season of “Carnival Row” along with Disney+ and Marvel series “The Falcon And The Winter Soldier” are set to roll cameras again very soon while additional shooting on Denis Villeneuve’s big-budget feature “Dune” will take place in Hungary around mid-August.
Other productions booking out space for the rest of the year in Hungary are Amazon’s “The Banker’s Wife,” Sony’s “The Nightingale” and Showtime’s live-action game-to-series “Halo” adaptation.
