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“- We’re going to kick your ass.
No, I’m just going to break the hands of three drunk kids.
There are four of us.
There’s one who has to drive the others to the hospital.”
Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson)
Former U.S. Military Police Major, war hero and outstanding investigator, Jack Reacher (Alan Richtson) is not one to take it lying down. When you go after him, you have to be prepared to pay the consequences. A characteristic that the Reacher series exploits brilliantly throughout the eight episodes of its first season, putting the hero in inextricable situations where only his deadly skills allow him to escape. This is notably the case when four individuals attack him in front of the Margrave Motel.
Mainly shot in a closed environment, in a huge open-air studio located in the vicinity of Toronto, the Reacher show nevertheless used real locations during season 1. Places like the Stratford Suburban Motel. Margrave, a fictional town invented by writer Lee Child, consists of an on-screen montage of contrived locations and places in Canada’s Ontario province. And if no sequence was shot inside the motel in question, its parking lot hosts one of the most memorable fights of this first salvo of episodes.
In 2022, the Jack Reacher literary saga had 27 novels.
Stratford Suburban Motel
Conveniently located in a wooded area not far from downtown, the Stratford Suburban Motel is a favorite of tourists visiting the area.
It is the perfect starting point for a full-fledged tour of the wonders of Stratford and has a great reputation. It is located only a few miles from the Town Hall, one of the city’s most beautiful landmarks. In Stratford, Justin Bieber’s hometown, where the theater festival has welcomed millions of fans since its first edition in 1953. Actors such as William Shatner, Alec Guinness and Christopher Plummer have also performed there.
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Fanspots Stories Paris [French Edition]
Fanspots Stories ParisFanspots are legendary images from films, series, music, comics or novels.
These are often anonymous places these are that have become world-famous thanks to pop culture, to the point where they are now inseparable from the works they were used to set.
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Paris filmed, Paris sung, Paris drawn, Paris told… For artists, the City of Light is an extraordinary field of expression and an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Each new work is an outstretched hand to seduce new people, thanks to the dreamers of yesterday and today. Famous or anonymous places then become cult. These are the secrets of a hundred of them revealed in this third volume of the Fanspots Stories collection.
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The coffee ofAmélie, the location of the Corniaud, the bridge of Inception, the seat of the Spectre in James Bond, the restaurant of Ratatouille, the church of Les Tontons Flingueurs, the bar of Bref., the agency in Call my Agent, the restaurant in Emily in Paris, the refuge of Lupin, the Parisian residence of the heroines of Gossip Girl, the firm of In therapy, the works of the Louvre featured in the clip Apeshit by Jay Z & Beyoncé, the Parc Montsouris of Jacques Higelin, the metro station of Poinçonneur des Lilas by Serge Gainsbourg, the café in Paris Le Flore by Etienne Daho, the apartment ofAdèle Blanc-Sec, the lair of Olrik in Blake & Mortimer, the apartment of Arsene Lupin, the home of the Count of Monte Cristo, the address of The Malaussian Family, the police station of Maigret, the Fiat Lux agency of Nestor Burma, the bar of A Moveable Feast, the tavern of Three musketeers…
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By Gilles Rolland
Passionné de cinéma, de rock and roll, de séries TV et de littérature. Rédacteur de presse et auteur des livres Le Heavy Metal au cinéma, Paroles de fans Guns N' Roses, Paroles de fans Rammstein et Welcome to my Jungle : 100 albums rock et autres anecdotes dépareillées. Adore également voyager à la recherche des lieux les plus emblématiques de la pop culture.