The film is slated to be shot in various locations in Connecticut, but chose to film a Christmas festival scene in town because “we loved the town hall,” decorator Megan Miller-McKeever said as a film crew pulled up. was preparing on Friday.

The film is based on the “Noel Diary”, a New York Times bestselling novel by author Richard Paul Evans, who also wrote “The Mistletoe Promise”.

The story tells the story of a young man who finds a diary that may contain secrets about his past as he settles his mother’s estate for the Christmas holidays.

The man meets a young woman and their relationship takes a turn during the Christmas festival scene set to be shot in New Canaan, Miller-McKeever said.

The decorator said she adores the shops in the village and that she also planned to adorn a clothing store for the holidays. Those plans changed, she said, as she noted that a large box full of mannequins outside City Hall was unlikely to be used.

Netflix also shot in Darien, Essex, Westport and Southport for this film.

Other projects are slated to be shot in New Canaan this year, said administrative agent Tucker Murphy.

Murphy met with a Discovery Channel representative regarding the shooting of a film at Waveny House “On The Evolution of Wall Street”.

The city has had several parts of other films shot in New Canaan, including “Revolutionary Road” in 2008, “Stepford Wives” in 2004, “Ice Storm” in 1997, “The Swimmer” in 1968, “The Object of my Affection In 1998 and “Louder Than Words” in 2013, Murphy said.

The longtime soap opera “All My Children” has also been filmed in Waveny for years, Murphy said.