film sets recreated for a sequel years later

[cardinal biggles]

^There's a short scene in Moneypenny's office in LTK, but we don't really see enough of it to determine if it's the same set or just a partial recreation of the old one. The office furniture is oriented differently (her desk faces the front door instead of the door leading to M's office).

 

[Christopher]

Not sure if this really counts since it isn't "years later," but it's similar to the example from The Office above: in its final season, the TV series The Dead Zone relocated production from Vancouver to Toronto, and had to rebuild the standing sets of the main character's home. They modified them in subtle ways to incorporate improvements, but the modifications were subtle and the set was meant to look the same. However, it was strange that he had the same house but suddenly the rest of his hometown looked completely different...

 

[Hermiod]

Not sure about this but M's and Moneypenny's office looks alike in a lot of the Bond films (with cosmetic changes such as paintings, viewscreens etc), even into Casino Royale (They went with a new look for Quantum, though). Was the set always the same set?

Up until AVTAK, yes. They had it in permanent storage.

It doesn't appear TLD or LTK, then there's a new set for Goldeneye. I think the sets in TWINE and DAD are both slightly different (it doesn't appear in TND) then another all-new set for M's office in Casino Royale, and it doesn't appear in QoS.

Bear in mind, in real terms M's office would be in a completely different building most likely between Licence to Kill and Goldeneye since MI6 moved buildings in the 90's.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Alton Brown's cooking show Good Eats was shot on location in a rented house. When they lost use of the house, they more or less rebuilt the interior on a sound stage.

 

[Christopher]

^Oh yeah, I remember that from the Good Eats behind-the-scenes special. Actually it wasn't a rented house, it was the house that one of the show's producers actually lived in. But the neighbors complained about the constant noise and activity of the film crew, so they built a duplicate set. Which gives them more flexibility and allows them to do the camera angles from inside the fridge, oven, etc. that have since become a trademark of the show.

 

[Greg Cox]

Probably not quite what the OP intended, but a lot of the sets for GHOST WHISPERER burned down in a fire a few years back. I assume they rebuilt them for the new season.

 

[chardman]

Not sure if this really counts since it isn't "years later," but it's similar to the example from The Office above: in its final season, the TV series The Dead Zone relocated production from Vancouver to Toronto, and had to rebuild the standing sets of the main character's home. They modified them in subtle ways to incorporate improvements, but the modifications were subtle and the set was meant to look the same. However, it was strange that he had the same house but suddenly the rest of his hometown looked completely different...

Same thing when "X-Files" moved from Vancouver to LA. They didn't just duplicate the sets, but bought and redressed a small office building to match their original FBI sets, which allowed for continuous follow shots of a character as they went from floor to floor, and even from the main floor and out of the building altogether.

 

[Christopher]

Probably not quite what the OP intended, but a lot of the sets for GHOST WHISPERER burned down in a fire a few years back. I assume they rebuilt them for the new season.

That was actually the Universal Studios backlot which was used for a lot of the show's exteriors (and was also famously used for the Hill Valley town square in the Back to the Future trilogy, among many other uses). The fire was just over a year ago -- June 1, 2008. The Courthouse Square has now been fully restored, and the rest of the destroyed portions of the backlot are being rebuilt.

Can backlot locations be called sets? I tend to think of the terms as exclusive.

 

[Brikar99]

Same thing when "X-Files" moved from Vancouver to LA. They didn't just duplicate the sets, but bought and redressed a small office building to match their original FBI sets, which allowed for continuous follow shots of a character as they went from floor to floor, and even from the main floor and out of the building altogether.

I love that episode.

 

[nx1701g]

I think I'd heard somewhere that the pilot (or the entire first season) of the American version of "The Office" had shot in an actual office, which was then rebuilt on a stage.

Donnie Wahlberg shot a pilot in our office late last year, and we were told that if it went to series, they'd build a replica on a stage somewhere else.

The same thing happened with Las Vegas.

For the pilot and the first season of the show they filmed at the Mandalay Bay Casino in Las Vegas every so often, but they built a full size replica of the Casino on set in Culver Studios.

I know it doesn't really count but for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles they found the gas station used for the final scenes of The Terminator and refurbished it for use on the show (the opening scenes of The Mousetrap happen here where Cromartie kidnaps Michelle Dixon).

 

[Harvey]

Re: film sets re-used

Also, didn't they rebuild some of the Blade Runner sets to reshoot some scenes for the most recent DVD release?

I don't believe any sets were recreated. All that was shot were some new bits of Joanna Cassidy to replace a stunt double and Ben Ford to replace his father's unsynched lips in one scene. IIRC.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Not sure if this really counts since it isn't "years later," but it's similar to the example from The Office above: in its final season, the TV series The Dead Zone relocated production from Vancouver to Toronto, and had to rebuild the standing sets of the main character's home. They modified them in subtle ways to incorporate improvements, but the modifications were subtle and the set was meant to look the same.

This also happened during the 3rd season of 7 Days when production moved from L.A. to Vancouver.

Professor Xavier's mansion in X-Men was a historic building in Toronto. When the mansion reappeared in X2, it was a set built in Vancouver. This was partially done to acommodate all of the action that takes place during Stryker's raid on the mansion in X2. After all, you can't blow up a national landmark.

There were also 3 very different versions of the X-jet cockpit in the 3 X-Men movies. The thing underwent a total redesign between X-Men & X2. In X-Men: The Last Stand, it was mostly the same except for a wall that now separates the cockpit from the midsection.

Then there are cases of real locations rebuilt or partially rebuilt on a stage or backlot, often screwing with the scale. They built their own versions of the head of the Statue of Liberty in both Ghostbusters 2 and X-Men. In both cases, the sets were larger than the actual head. New York City's famous Silvercup sign was recreated at a slightly smaller scale for the big fight scene at the end of Highlander. (And then, portions of the Silvercup sign, the parking garage, & Connor McLeod's castle from Highlander were recreated for Queen's "Princes of the Universe" music video.)