43rd St. and Sixth Ave … in Vancouver.

Rather than close down the streets of midtown Manhattan, the filmmakers chose to create a New York City set in Vancouver, taking images of the city directly from the graphic novel. “Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ New York is a highly fictionalized version of New York,” McDowell explains. “We made the decision pretty early to build our New York from the ground up in the back lot in order to really control the geography.”