film sets recreated for a sequel years later

[Marc]

Still, completely redesigning the BoP bridge is illogical.

Especially given that the klingons somehow revamp all their ships from TFF onward to look like what the Vulcans supposedly did.

Maybe the Klingons realised that for all their wussy logic, the Vulcans know how to build a bridge

 

[Candlelight]

The Spacedock interior was destroyed after ST3 and was rebuilt for ST4.

Not a movie but there was an early Doctor Who story from the sixties that had it's sets junked after episode 1* but had to be rebuilt for episode's 5 & 6. Think it was Keys of Marinus.

* Back then Doctor Who was broadcast as a single story over several weeks, usually 4 or 6.

 

[propita]

I've read that a lot of the original set dressing from 1931's "Frankenstein" was used for "Young Frankenstein."

 

[Trekker4747]

I've read that a lot of the original set dressing from 1931's "Frankenstein" was used for "Young Frankenstein."

Eh. depemds. Lots of that stuff -like the Jacob's Ladder- can be -and is- rented from many set-dressing suppliers in Hollywood.

 

[Hermiod]

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.

Remember, Stargate (the movie) and Stargate SG-1 (and the other TV shows) have several continuity differences, right down to the spelling of the lead character's name. The entrance to "Creek Mountain" looks a hell of a lot like the entrance to the Cheyenne Mountain facility from the show, though.

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.

Possibly four, depending on the timing. 24 has a (largely inaccurate) White House set.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

I've read that a lot of the original set dressing from 1931's "Frankenstein" was used for "Young Frankenstein."

I don't remember about the sets, but the props were the originals.

 

[Captaindemotion]

24 has a (largely inaccurate) White House set.

I'm sure we're all relieved to know that the White House can't be accessed by a gang of mercenaries entering from an underground passage via the nearest river!

 

[Hermiod]

24 has a (largely inaccurate) White House set.

I'm sure we're all relieved to know that the White House can't be accessed by a gang of mercenaries entering from an underground passage via the nearest river!

Yeah, well see my comments in the threads for the relevant episodes - I thought that whole storyline was sheer garbage that shouldn't have been broadcast.

But I was referring to more simple things. I'm led to believe that the West Wing's recreation was a little bit too accurate for the Secret Service. 24's version seems to lack features like the direct door between the Oval Office and the Chief of Staff's office. None of the doors they do have seem to lead to the President's secretary's office either.

 

[Alpha_Geek]

Babylon 5: The Lost Tales rebuilt some of the station sets, but also relied heavily on a CGI/greenscreen.

 

[Scout101]

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.

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.

Nice of them to refit most of it using OTHER Klingon tech, rather than Federation equipment, though.

If they were going to rip stuff out and redesign/upgrade, you'd expect familiar tech rather than putting in DIFFERENT Klingon equipment ...

 

[Timby]

But I was referring to more simple things. I'm led to believe that the West Wing's recreation was a little bit too accurate for the Secret Service.

Largely correct. That set, which was originally built for the film Dave and then later re-used in The American President and The West Wing, was forced to be declared off-limits by Warner Bros. to visitors on studio tours, after the Secret Service realized that anyone taking pictures of such an accurate set represented a significant security risk.

 

[Dac]

Just throwing things out here, but what about The Fire station and Dana Barret's apartment from Ghostbusters I and II? Ive no idea if all the fire station or all of Dana's apartment are locations or sets though.

 

[Hermiod]

^I think those are locations.

 

[Timby]

Just throwing things out here, but what about The Fire station and Dana Barret's apartment from Ghostbusters I and II? Ive no idea if all the fire station or all of Dana's apartment are locations or sets though.

The fire station is Hook & Ladder No. 8, which is still standing (and, to my knowledge, still in-use as a fire station) at 14 N. Moore Street in New York City. Dana's apartment building is 55 Central Park West (and the filming of the scene near the climax when the Ghostbusters arrive at the building, with the cheering crowd, essentially shut down half of Manhattan due to traffic backups). The front of the building and the street were re-created on a studio by production designer John DeCuir, however, for the scene wherein an earthquake strikes and the street cracks in multiple directions.

 

[Trekker4747]

IIRC, however, the interiors of the Ghostbusters' station was a firestation in LA, or otherwise not the Hook and Ladder station used for the exterior shots (as in real life it's an operating fire-station.) Dana's interior apartment in the first movie was a set -with one of the largest and most detailed matte paintings ever used serving as her view-in the second movie I highly doubt she's meant to be in the same apartment -and her apartment in 2 is very different- so it's not a set recreation.

 

[wamdue]

the Friends cafe set was used in the "Nobodys Watching" pilot that NBC said it was going to make into a series, but didnt.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

film sets re-used

While off-topic (re-created vs. re-used) I should mention that the sets for
Dracula (1931) were also used during the production but at nighttime to shoot a Spanish version of Dracula (a separate film with a different director).

The Spanish version was filmed simultaneously with the English language version, using a separate cast. It feels like pretty much the same exact movie, with perhaps a bit more flavor (go figure). It's actually about 30 minutes longer as well.

The Spanish version film is included on the 1999 DVD Classic Monster Collection - Dracula release
SOURCE

If you listen to commentary tracks on a number of TV shows and films you'll hear how a location was redressed and re-used.


I'd like to hear more about actual sets in the studio that were designed and then re-constructed for a sequel.

 

[Harvey]

Re: film sets re-used

I saw Spanish Dracula in a film class nearly four years ago. Utterly, utterly terrible. But it does (apparently) have more camera movement than the English version, and was mostly shot at night, IIRC, when the English version wasn't shooting.

 

[Greg Cox]

Re: film sets re-used

The Spanish language version of DRACULA also boasts a sexier heroine who wears a much skimpier nightie.

Alas, it doesn't have Lugosi . . . .

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

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.

Yeah, I always wondered what the Carrousel (the Discovery's rotating section) would have looked like in 2010. I was rather disappointed to learn that Stanley Kubrick had all the sets destroyed after 2001's filming wrapped. That was just too cool a set to let go to waste...

Although the re-creation of the sets that *did* occur, wasn't entirely accurate; in the original film, all of the video displays aboard the Discovery were projected film animations, whereas in 2010 they're CRTs. And the velcro bits in the floor of the Discovery sets - where the crew would walk using their velcro shoes, to get around the zero-G problem - were apparently abandoned in 2010. (Apart from one odd sequence aboard the Leonov, zero-G was treated as non-existent in 2010.)

SonicRanger, if you're listening: The cockpit section of the Discovery wasn't new to 2010. It appeared in the original film as well. One of the crewmembers would be sitting there while the other one did a spacewalk. CRT problem notwithstanding, Peter Hyams' people did a pretty good job recreating that set for 2010.