In addition to Orange Beach, filming will take place in Mobile at the USS Alabama and USS Drum submarine in Battleship Park. Production will also shoot in San Francisco and Kyoto, Japan.
Harrod Blank remembers a particular summer back in the early 1970s. He and his brother Beau spent the summer with their father, Berkeley filmmaker Les Blank, staying in a kind of floating motel in Grand Lake o’ the Cherokees, Okla.
California shooting will start in September, though it's not clear if the Bay Area setting from the novel means that filming will take place in San Francisco and its environs or whether a studio lot will have to do.