Eagle-eyed viewers may have caught glimpses of Otago in the first official look at Netflix’s upcoming East of Eden series.
Netflix yesterday dropped the first official trailer for its seven-episode adaptation of the 1952 John Steinbeck novel.
The series was filmed in Dunedin, Oamaru and Central Otago and boasts a cast including Hollywood heavyweights Florence Pugh, Martha Plimpton, Christopher Abbott and Ciaran Hinds.
The just over a minute-long trailer offered a tantalising glimpse of several local locations.
At 51 seconds in, Pugh can be seen in an alleyway that appears to be located in Oamaru’s Heritage Precinct.
Another snippet showed two riders on horseback gazing across a sprawling landscape resembling Central Otago.
Set mainly in the Salinas Valley, California, the novel follows the Trasks and the Hamiltons; intertwined families destined to re-enact the fateful biblical story of Cain and Abel.
Filming took place at various locations around Dunedin in January last year, including in Princes and lower Stuart Sts, and Queens Gardens.
Academy Award nominee Pugh, who plays Cathy Ames, was spotted walking down Princes St in period costume, along with actors in horse-drawn carriages and riding horses.
She was later seen filming in lower Stuart St for about an hour, leaving in a Range Rover and waving to onlookers out the window.
The shopfront of nearby Taste Merchants was transformed to resemble a ‘‘costumers and milliners’’ store.
Netflix is yet to provide an exact release date for East of Eden, but the trailer said it was coming ‘‘this fall’’.
