The movie, which stars Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson and Cynthia Erivo, takes place on one night in 1969. Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Chicago mobster Sam Giancana bought the hotel in 1960.
The real hotel on which screenwriter Drew Goddard based his script is the Cal Neva Lodge & Casino, which was built in 1926.
2018’s mystery thriller Bad Times at the El Royale is based on a fading casino hotel on the California-Nevada border.įilming for the movie took place in January and February of 2018 in Vancouver and Burnaby, British Columbia, with production crews in Canada replicating the hotel of Crystal Bay.
