Editing Fort Myers, Florida (section)

==Fort Myers in popular culture==

===In film===
* The abandoned city scene with the Edison Theatre, from the movie ''[[Day of the Dead (1985 film)|Day of the Dead]]'' (1985) was filmed in downtown Fort Myers.<ref name="Stetson">{{cite web|url=http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2011-09-07/Arts_%28and%29_Entertainment_News/STARRING_SW_FLORIDA.html|title=STARRING SW FLORIDA|last=Stetson|first=Nancy|date=September 7, 2011|publisher=Florida Weekly|access-date=July 25, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140727200315/http://fortmyers.floridaweekly.com/news/2011-09-07/Arts_(and)_Entertainment_News/STARRING_SW_FLORIDA.html|archive-date=July 27, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* Some courthouse and other "city" scenes in ''[[Just Cause (film)|Just Cause]]'' (1995) were filmed in downtown Fort Myers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.visitfortmyers.com/production-credits|title=Production Credits - The Beaches of Fort Myers & Sanibel|website=visitfortmyers.com|access-date=November 17, 2017|archive-date=November 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171119151345/https://www.fortmyers-sanibel.com/production-credits|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Part of the independent film ''[[Trans (film)|Trans]]'' (1999) was filmed in Fort Myers.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmfortmyers.com/images/filmhistory.pdf|title=Filmed in Fort Myers - Film Fort Myers|website=Filmfortmyers.com|access-date=November 17, 2017|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804084010/http://www.filmfortmyers.com/images/filmhistory.pdf|archive-date=August 4, 2016}}</ref>
* The animated film [[Leo (2023 American film)|''Leo'']] (2023) is set in Fort Myers, with one of the main locations in the film being the fictional Fort Myers Elementary School.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Critic |first=James Verniere {{!}} Movie |date=2023-11-21 |title=Adam Sandler's 'Leo' a surefire hit for Netflix |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/21/adam-sandlers-leo-a-surefire-hit-for-netflix/ |access-date=2023-11-22 |website=Boston Herald |language=en-US}}</ref>

===In print===
* Fort Myers is part of the setting of ''Red Grass River: A Legend'' (1998), a novel by [[James Carlos Blake]].<ref>{{cite book|author=James Carlos Blake|title=Red Grass River: A Legend|url=https://archive.org/details/redgrassriverleg00blak|url-access=registration|publisher=Avon|location= New York|year= 1998|isbn=9780380974931}}</ref>