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Skydance Studios, a state of the art film production facility in Surrey that will be home base for an ambitious Netflix science fiction series, opens Tuesday with a ribbon cutting.

Skydance Media, the California-based film and television production company behind big-budget Hollywood fare like Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and Star Trek Beyond, which were both filmed in Vancouver, converted the former Pacific Newspaper printing press building in Kennedy Heights (12091 88 Avenue) into a five sound stage studio that can accommodate a production staff of up to 400 people.

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The first major production to take up residence in the facility will be Altered Carbon, a 10-episode Netflix series adaptation of author Richard K. Morgan’s 2002 cyber-punk science fiction novel of the same name.

Altered Carbon is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness “re-sleeved” into new bodies.