The Artemis Fowl House: Where was Artemis Fowl filmed?

Set in Ireland, 'the most magical place on Earth', the Artemis Fowl universe is an adaptation of Eoin Colfer's children's book series.

In the last few years, many authors have been pursuing the Holy Grail of writing the new Harry Potter.

Directed by Kenneth Branagh, this movie is Disney's bet to produce a new series of films based on this story.

Artemis II (Ferdia Shaw) is a 12-year-old criminal mastermind gifted child, living in an awesome house full of gadgets, secrets, and that thingy called Aculos.

The Fowls (Colin Farrell plays his father Artemis I), keep the peace of our world with the secret civilization of fairies, dwarfs, goblins, and trolls that live deep underground in Haven City.

Artemis Fowl was primarily filmed in Northern Ireland and at Longcross Studios near London.

Some drone footage was recorded in Italy and according to the movie credits, filming was also done at Ho Chi Minh City (the old Saigon in Vietnam) and in the Scottish town of Thurso.

However, we haven't seen a trace of them in the final cut, so these filming locations are probably going to appear in the next installment, shot simultaneously with this film.

The key location of the movie is the Artemis Fowl Manor. Instead of looking for the ideal house or creating one using CGI, Disney decided to build it from scratch on the grounds of Longcross Studios.

As you can check out in Google Maps, the set is huge and includes the cabin by the beach.
(You can open all the locations on Google Maps by clicking on the links below in the captions ↴)
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Building the full Artemis Fowl house allowed filmmakers to design the mansion layout to accommodate filming requirements.

The way the camera spins during the troll fight or the single take with the kid, walking all over the rooms, were scenes easier to film as everything was planned beforehand.
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In the story, the Fowl State is located northeast of the sacred Hill of Tara, the seat of the High Kings of Ireland according to Irish mythology.

Although there are no monumental trees in this ancient ceremonial site, this is a real landmark near Skryne in County Meath.

The beach is inspired by Whiterocks Beach in Portrush. Portrush is situated on the north coast of County Antrim in Northern Ireland, just a few miles away from the wonderful Giant's Causeway Coast.
Image courtesy of Disney - Maps: Hill of Tara / White Rocks Beach

Domovoi Dom Butler (Nonso Anozie) is standing in the ruins of Dunluce Castle in Bushmills Northern Ireland, located less than 2 miles away from Whiterocks Beach.

The fortress is the ancestral seat of Clan McDonnell and is heavily exposed to the elements, perched on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic ocean.
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Inspiration for the underground Haven City, home of the fairies commanded by Julius Root (Judi Dench), seems to come from the Dongchuan Red Land terraced fields.

This is a remote colorful landscape, located in the Chinese province of Yunnan.
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The fairy Holly Short (Lara McDonnell) gets out of the Vesuvius volcano, near Napoli (Italy).

She flies through some coastal villages in the hills, that look a lot like the ones of the dazzling Amalfi Coast, the same area where the Italian house in Tenet is located.
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The monstrous troll attacks humans celebrating a wedding in a town called Martina Franca.

It does exist an Italian town called like this in Apulia, South of Italy. But actually, the village pictured in the movie is San Gimignano, the medieval skyscrapers town in Tuscany.

No traditional filming took place here; the crew just taped drone footage, scanning the old towered center, on which the images of the film are built.
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