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film sets recreated for a sequel years later

jefferiestubes8

jefferiestubes8

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What other films have recreated sets from previous films? [preferably not from storage]

I'm not talking about a Trek bridge set that was dressed up or repurposed after it was in storage for years...

I know that Back to the Future Part II (1989) recreated the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance in the Hill Valley high school auditorium.
Most of the Hill Valley town square shops for the additional 1955 scenes (that was more set decorating than set reconstruction.]

I believe the escape pod from the Nostromo Alien (1979) was recreated for Aliens (1986) as well as the Sulaco escape pod was recreated for Alien³ (1992.

recreated Discovery in "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (1984) from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
SonicRanger points out though that not all of the ship's sets were recreated such as the crew's living quarters.

others? including sets in CG?
 
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technically the bridge of NCC-1701 Enterprise from TOS was made from the original blueprints for fan films from Phase II (aka New Voyages).
So you could call that a recreation.
 
The interiors from firefly were recreated in greater detail and with slight differences for the film Serenity.
 
Not a sequel but as an MST3k and bad movie fan it makes me laugh when I see the sets from 1955 B-Movie cheesefest Bride of the Monster recreated in the 1994 Tim Burton film Ed Wood.
 
ManOnTheWave said:
The interiors from firefly were recreated in greater detail and with slight differences for the film Serenity.
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Actually Whedon paid to have them kept in storage for the most part ... rebuilding them would have made the film prohibitively above low budget.
 
Not a film set but the original Enterprise NCC-1701 (No A,B, C or D!) was recreated for the Star Trek TNG episode Relics, while the likes of DS9's Trials and Tribblations and ENT's mirror universe two parters also recreated the look of the original USS Enterprise and the Defiant from The Tholian Web. VOY's Flashback recreated the Excelsior bridge set from STVI:TUC
 
How can we know whether the sets came from storage or not?

What about the interiors of the house and motel in the Psycho sequels? I'd assume that the house and motel on the Universal backlot are just facades, and I know the house was moved and I think the motel was destroyed and later rebuilt.

Would it be too much of a stretch to count Stargate Command from Stargate SG-1? After all, it's just an approximate recreation of the movie set. And I'm not even sure it's meant to be the same facility, since the Stargate was in "Creek Mountain" in the movie and Cheyenne Mountain under NORAD in the series.

And how loosely are we defining "re-creation" here? Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Really Long Title used a combination of real and virtual sets to recreate the warehouse that was represented by a bare floor and a matte painting in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

How about real places that have been built as sets on multiple occasions? Like the Oval Office. There must have been quite a few different Oval Office sets built over the decades, although sometimes one production's OO will be borrowed by another (Smallville borrowed The West Wing's OO for a Lex Luthor dream sequence and Stargate SG-1 borrowed the OO and White House sets from X2: X-Men United). I think at one point, between those two OOs and the one in Geena Davis's Commander in Chief, there were three separate standing Oval Office sets in use at the same time.
 
The Lars homestead set from Star Wars was recreated for Attack of the Clones, albeit with a few minor differences due to the films' timeline placement.
 
Smiley said:
The Lars homestead set from Star Wars was recreated for Attack of the Clones, albeit with a few minor differences due to the films' timeline placement.
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And of course the interiors of the Corvette at the end of Revenge of the Sith - a shinier and more polished but otherwise near-identical version of the battle-weary little ship seen at the start of A New Hope.
 
^Right. For TNG: "Relics," they only built the turbolift alcove and one console, and I think they borrowed existing replicas of the command chair and helm/nav station. For DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations," they built at least half the bridge, plus corridors and the lift and the K-7 bar. For ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly," they finally completed building the whole bridge (and I think a lot of it was something the art staff had done on their own time just for fun, even before the episode was written) as well as the corridors, briefing room, and captain's quarters, plus some maintenance-tunnel sets that were new to the episode but based on Matt Jefferies' designs.
 
Re: film sets recreated in CG

jefferiestubes8 said:
Aliens (1986) hypersleep bay drawing
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/182/380108722_cb7f9edcff.jpg?v=0

recreated in the new game Aliens: Colonial Marines
http://stopgame.ru/files/screenshots/9373/aliens_colonial_marines-9.jpg

screenshots of CG recreations from the new game.
http://clanbase.ggl.com/news.php?nid=281507
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Apparently production of the game has now been halted.

Another good example is for 2010 Odyssey II they had to rebuild the sets and models for Discovery after Kubrick had the originals and their design plans destroyed.
Doh just seen the mention of 2010 in the first post - should pay more attention
 
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Trekker4747 said:
ManOnTheWave said:
The interiors from firefly were recreated in greater detail and with slight differences for the film Serenity.
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Actually, to a detailed eye, the differences were pretty stark.
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The overall floor plan was pretty close. But you're right, the sickbay was noticably smaller, and the cargo bay was noticably bigger, and the living area was rather different. The color scheme of the movie sets was more blue, etc. But it wasn't quite as odd as some Star Trek movies where an office or quarters changes shape and size completely.
 
ManOnTheWave said:
Trekker4747 said:
ManOnTheWave said:
The interiors from firefly were recreated in greater detail and with slight differences for the film Serenity.
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Actually, to a detailed eye, the differences were pretty stark.
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The overall floor plan was pretty close. But you're right, the sickbay was noticably smaller, and the cargo bay was noticably bigger, and the living area was rather different. The color scheme of the movie sets was more blue, etc. But it wasn't quite as odd as some Star Trek movies where an office or quarters changes shape and size completely.
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The cargobay was also far more "mechanical"/metalic looking that the more "barn look" of the ship in the series. The main corridor with was a bit different as were the doors/hatches down to the bunks.

But, yeah, it wasn't as bas as set changes in the Trek movies. (Scotty must have worked his ass off in the Klingon BoP to reonfigure the Klingon bridge from STIII in to one with a more "Starfleet-like" layout while still maintaining a much more "Klingon Look" than the one started off with. ;)
 
Trekker4747 said:
But, yeah, it wasn't as bas as set changes in the Trek movies. (Scotty must have worked his ass off in the Klingon BoP to reonfigure the Klingon bridge from STIII in to one with a more "Starfleet-like" layout while still maintaining a much more "Klingon Look" than the one started off with. ;)
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They spent three months on Vulcan in the interval between films. Vulcan is an advanced planet with plenty of engineers. It's reasonable to assume Scotty had some help with the refitting.
 
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