Plating Netflix HYPERDRIVE Race Course

We recently had another great opportunity to work with Hollywood. We’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in projects like The Equalizer 2 (2018), Detroit (2017) and a collection of HBO and television shows. This year we’ve joined the cord-cutters and provided materials and support to Netflix for their new show HYPERDRIVE.

We were consulted to seek and provide steel plates for fabrication and assembly in bridges, jumps obstacles and traffic like conditions. Materials had to be meticulously selected, tested and tracked to ensure safety and success for the drivers and the crew. Shot on location at the old Polaroid plant in Eastman Business Park. Fabrication and Assembly services by Optimation.

According to the park website the location has over 1,200 acres of land for use with “over 16 million square feet of multi-scale manufacturing, distribution, lab, and office space.”

The location’s former name was Kodak Park. It used to be a manufacturing base for Kodak photographic products as well as products intended for motion picture use. The facility was designed to meet excessive demand.

With the show shot at night with a deserted factory feel, the location provides a max quality feel to the setting. At the very least a futuristic wasteland of sorts with spectators–which is rather cool, to say the least.

However, not everyone was pleased with the production location. Many people live next to Eastman Business Park and suffer from all the noise once the Netflix original series started shooting. As one of the neighbors named Marcia Kellison describes to channel 13, “I feel on edge. I’m nervous. I’ve had a migraine for the last two days. I still have it. I’ve been crying today for no reason.”

Even though filming at Eastman Business Park came at an emotional cost for some, it paid off because the setting adds to the atmosphere. One halfway expects this to be the filming location for a sequel to The Running Man. It’s that impressive.