Passenger

Passenger was shot entirely in Washington State, across the western and central parts of it. Director André Øvredal has said the range of terrain was the reason. Washington "was an amazing option," he told the Motion Picture Association, adding that he had not been "consciously aware of how much diversity the state has when it comes to the kinds of worlds it could create." He had considered other states and Spain, but wanted the film to feel distinctly American. The story itself is not set in Washington, so the landscape is standing in for somewhere else. One location carries its own history. The diner is Twede’s in North Bend, the Double R from Twin Peaks. Øvredal confirmed it plainly: "There is a diner in the movie, and it's the same one they used in Twin Peaks." The production shot there not long after David Lynch died, partway through a January to March 2025 schedule, and Øvredal has described it as feeling like they were honouring him. A claim has circulated that the production filmed near the hunting grounds of the Green River Killer. It traces to a single Instagram post. Dread Central, which ran it, said in the same article that it could not tell what the account's source was and that the claim should be treated with caution. No production source has confirmed it, and Wikipedia's production section names no filming locations at all. Since Washington was chosen for its terrain and is doubling for another setting, any proximity would be a coincidence of where the crew was working rather than a decision about the story.