There Will Be Blood (2007) – Filming Locations
Drama · Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson · Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Colleen Foy
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.
Where was There Will Be Blood filmed?
- Los Angeles, United States, Los Angeles – Various interior and exterior scenes including the family home sequences. Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollywood House provided distinctive architectural backdrops for the film's domestic scenes
- Santa Maria, California, United States, Santa Maria – Oil derrick scenes and landscape establishing shots of the petroleum operations. Real oil fields in California's central coast provided authentic industrial landscape for the film's petroleum industry setting
- Ventura County, California, United States, Ventura – Rural ranch and oil field sequences depicting the film's fictional Little Boston setting. The Ojai Valley's natural landscape and period-appropriate structures served as the primary location for the oil boom town sequences
- Kern County, California, United States, Bakersfield – Exterior oil drilling and industrial landscape scenes. Actual California oil fields and related industrial infrastructure provided authentic settings for the petroleum extraction sequences