Filmmakers Tap Dunwoody, Georgia, Leading Into 2025
When Snoop Dogg sat down with Good Morning America’s Michael Strahan to talk about his 2024 sports comedy film The Underdoggs, which was largely shot on-location in Dunwoody, Georgia, he described the experience as sublime.
“I’m mastering the craft of who I am. And to be the best who-I-am is to do the things that make me feel good, and the main two things are ‘fun.’ F-U-N and F-U-N-D-S. If it makes funds and it’s fun, I’m in,” Dogg noted about filming The Underdoggs (released by Amazon MGM Studios on Prime Video).
In and around the metro Atlanta hotspot just 10 minutes north of downtown, experiences like Dogg’s in Dunwoody are what filmmakers find over and over again with the help of a three-part formula: Dunwoody, Assembly Studios, and Eagle Rock Studios Atlanta. Together, the three help give filmmakers a combination of beautiful locations, top-of-the-line hotels and shopping, restaurants and all manner of amenities, world-class sound stages, expansive backlots, a bleeding-edge LED volume for virtual production, and every other type of professional service or production space a film team requires.
Case in point, check out the trailer for The Underdoggs the trailer for The Underdoggs (rated “R” for language) and you’ll spot multiple high-profile locations in Dunwoody.
Here are some other recent film productions bringing “Action!” to Dunwoody.
Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist
The eight-episode limited miniseries about events surrounding Muhammad Ali’s 1970 fight against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta was shot at Assembly Atlanta Studios. Fight Night was the top-streamed series on Peacock when the first three episodes aired in September 2024. By January 2025, Fight Night led The NAACP Image Awards in the television category with nine nominations – including recognition for actors Kevin Hart, Samuel L. Jackson, Don Cheadle, Taraji P. Henson, and Terrence Howard.
Tulsa King Season 2
The comedy-drama series that aired on Paramount+ in 2024 was shot at Eagle Rock Studios. Its storyline follows an exiled New York mafia capo (Sylvester Stallone) following his release from a 25-year prison stint. Season 2 has scored a whopping 100% rating on Rotten Season 3 of the series is confirmed.
Red One
Filmed in part at Perimeter Mall in Dunwoody, 2024 Christmas-themed action film Red One stars Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans who team up to rescue a kidnapped Santa Claus. In the film’s Santa Meet-and-Greet scene shot at Perimeter Mall, signage from the mall’s department stores like Von Maur appear in the movie. Red One was released theatrically by Warner Bros. Pictures and Amazon MGM Studios.
Teacup
Peacock’s slow-burn, horror-thriller series Teacup, filmed at Assembly Studios in 2024, was also shot on a 124-acre farm in metro Atlanta. The series from veteran TV writer, producer, and executive producer Ian McCulloch, also known for Yellowstone, is set on a remote Georgia farm. Teacup is based on a cult classic horror novel, Stinger, by Robert McCammon, and McCulloch switched up its small town setting to focus on three Southern families who encounter a paranormal threat.
Will Trent Season 3
A promised “full-of-surprises” third season of ABC crime-drama series Will Trent is currently filming at Eagle Rock Studios and will be released in 2025. Based on the best-selling books of author Karin Slaughter, the series follows a special agent (Ramón Rodríguez as Will Trent) with the Georgia Bureau of Investigations. More to be revealed as Will reunites with Detective Angie Polaski (Erika Christensen).