The Wachowskis close down their production offices, sell off location

[The NZA]

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The facility has been Lilly and Lana Wachowski's base while making the movies "Speed Racer" (2008), "Cloud Atlas" (2012) and "Jupiter Ascending" (2015) and the Netflix series "Sense 8" (2015 through 2018). Filming itself generally is in Berlin, she said, but because the productions rely heavily on special effects, "a lot of what you see (on screen) happened here" in the building.

In about 2007, Lana and Lilly Wachowski, siblings and Chicago natives, converted the west Andersonville building into a facility for writing and pre- and post-production work, said Karin Wachowski, who is Lana's wife.

"This has been a dream space for us," Karin Wachowski. With the end of production on "Sense 8" and no new productions scheduled, the family decided to close the facility, she said.

 

end of an era, though i keep reading the writing was on the wall