Where was the 1984 Footloose filmed?

Utah County, Utah
Filming. The film was shot at various locations in Utah County, Utah. The high school and tractor scenes were filmed in and around Payson and Payson High School. The church scenes were filmed in American Fork and the steel mill was the Geneva Steel mill in Vineyard.

Where is the town of bomont in Footloose?

Filming. While the original film has the fictional town of “Bomont” located in Utah, the remake instead places the town in Georgia.

Where did Kevin Bacon dance in Footloose?

warehouse
The actor did perform the majority of his character’s dance moves himself, but there were a few scenes that were out of his wheelhouse — including one in a warehouse. The famous solo dance scene featured an “angry” Bacon flipping and kicking in an empty warehouse to the Moving Pictures song, “Never.”

Was Footloose filmed in Utah?

In March of 2014 Kevin Bacon visited the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and proved he’s still got the moves he flaunted in Footloose filmed 30 years earlier in locations all over Utah.

What state is Footloose set in?

Loosely based on events that took place in the small, rural, and extremely religious farming town of Elmore City, Oklahoma in 1978. Dancing had been banned for nearly ninety years, until a group of high school teenagers challenged it.

What Footloose is better?

So, basically, the opposite of Footloose. But the thing: the 2011 version of Footloose manages a trick balancing act of being essentially the exact same movie as the original, while producing actual underlying themes. It’s a superior movie to the original, while still using 90% of the same scenes and dialogue.

Was Footloose filmed in Beaumont Texas?

5. Footloose continues the Southern tradition: Even though the upcoming film is set in Beaumont, Tennessee (the original was set in Texas), filming took place in Georgia, Brewer said in April 2010 in an interview.