Evolution, 2001
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Cast
visit the film locations
Los Angeles: Flights: Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
California State University, 800 North State College Boulevard, Fullerton in California
Southbay Pavilion, 20700 Avalon Boulevard, Carson, California
Trivia
See Hawthorne Plaza in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report.
Daredevil location: Matt Murdock’s apartment: Arcade Building, South Broadway, Downtown Los Angeles
Ivan Reitman takes a straightforward scifi thriller and gives it the Ghostbusters treatment.
All kinds of weird creatures begin to evolve when a meteorite crashes into the desert at Page, Arizona. They must be used to this kind of thing by now – what with Planet of the Apes. And The Greatest Story Ever Told, too.
‘Glen Canyon Community College’ is California State University, 800 North State College Boulevard, Fullerton in California, chosen because of its "60s business park" look.
The ‘Tumbleweed Pavilion’ shopping mall invaded by the giant flying thingy is Southbay Pavilion, 20700 Avalon Boulevard, Carson, California, on the outside.
Eagle-eyed sci-fi buffs might recognise the interior as Hawthorne Plaza, 12124 Hawthorne Boulevard, Hawthorne, south Los Angeles, to which John Anderton (Tom Cruise) took precog Agatha (Samantha Morton) in Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report.
