Sugar Boys field unitDetroit, Michigan
Open public archive · Case 313
The Detroit
Movie Casebook.
Which movies were really filmed here? Which ones borrowed Detroit’s identity from somewhere else? Follow the locations, myths, and evidence behind the Motor City on screen.
The investigation
A movie can be set in Detroit,
filmed in Detroit—or neither.
Every case separates the story location from the camera location, identifies the places that made the frame, and assigns an editorial Detroit Authenticity Score.
Open cases
05 files availableRoboCop
Was RoboCop actually filmed in Detroit?
8 Mile
Where was 8 Mile filmed in Detroit?
It Follows
Which Detroit locations appear in It Follows?
Batman v Superman
How did Detroit become Gotham and Metropolis?
Beverly Hills Cop
How much of Beverly Hills Cop was filmed in Detroit?
The active case
One Detroit movie
is still being finished.
Sugar Boys puts two mismatched detectives inside a poisoned-city conspiracy—photographed in Detroit and built through Enigmaw’s practical and digital production pipeline.
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