BELL

Here’s an odd location requirement: “find an aspirational home with a front yard large enough for the Millennium Falcon to land in it.” Seems absurd, but the guys at Industrial Light & Magic are no joke. We had to measure every possible front yard we scouted to ensure it was big enough to fit the (imaginary) specs of the Star Wars vehicle landing on the property, as a part of Bell’s message of light-speed internet. We ultimately ran three separate crews on the day (the front yard became a pickup shot on the other side of the city, cuz good luck finding a flat, unobstructed 50m2 front yard close in to town), and had ILM’s top brass patched in from California all day long to make sure we were careful not to betray a cinematic icon conceived of a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…