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Escape Plan (2013)

Where Escape Plan says it takes place, and where it was really shot.

A prison with no address: the only real places are a Louisiana city, a bulk carrier and a Moroccan coast.

Scenes and places

Breslin lets himself be captured (2013)

Ray Breslin, a prison security tester, lets himself be taken in New Orleans while posing as a mercenary named Anthony Portos. His captors remove the tracking chip in his arm and drug him, so his team cannot tell where he is being taken.

Set in New Orleans — The city where Breslin allows himself to be captured under a false name. Google Maps · Apple Maps

The Louisiana city where the production shot for about two months in spring 2012.

Filmed at New Orleans, Louisiana — Principal photography ran in New Orleans; which street stood in for the capture is not given in the sources. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Inside the secret prison ship (2013)

Breslin wakes in a prison with fully transparent cells and masked guards, and learns the warden is not the one who was meant to release him. After an escape attempt he finds he is aboard a prison ship disguised as an oil tanker, and that his own partner arranged for him to stay there.

Set in The Tomb (prison ship) — A secret prison ship disguised as an oil tanker, somewhere in the middle of an ocean.

A fictional location: the only real-world object is the bulk carrier used for the engine-room scenes.

Filmed at Bulk carrier RICAN (later moored at Gretna, Louisiana) — The engine-room fight between Breslin and Drake was filmed aboard this ship. The point is the town where it was reported moored, not the berth. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Working out where the ship is (2013)

With a homemade sextant and a prisoner who sneaks outside to measure the latitude, Breslin and Rottmayer work out roughly where the ship is. They conclude it is in the Atlantic near Morocco, and Breslin gets word out to Mannheim's associates.

Set in Atlantic Ocean off Morocco (deduced position) — An open-sea position the prisoners deduce from the stars, the latitude and the calm water.

No real location is tied to this scene; the position exists only in the story.

The helicopter lands on a Moroccan beach (2013)

After the escape from the ship, the helicopter sets down on a Moroccan beach. There Rottmayer tells Breslin who he really is and who hired Breslin in the first place.

Set in A Moroccan beach — The beach where the rescue helicopter sets down.

The final location is only described as the Moroccan coast in the sources found.

Characters

• Ray Breslin — A lawyer turned prison security tester who breaks out of supermax prisons for a living.
• Emil Rottmayer — A fellow inmate who claims to work in security for the outlaw Victor Mannheim.

Questions answered on the map

• Where was the secret prison ship in Escape Plan really filmed?