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film sets recreated for a sequel years later

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It's always fun to see the re-created sets from classic sit coms for reunion TV specials. I've seen The Dick Van Dyke show, great recreation and very odd to see the classic livingroom in color, The Andy Griffith Show, not a full recreation, just bits and pieces in a surreal kind of setting, like a stage show set. The I love Lucy sets have been recreated in some detail on several occasions. A stand out was for a TV movie about Lucy.

I think the very best example of recreating sets from the past are the sets for the Steve Martin movie "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid". When the camera switches from the old movie, to Steve Martin's modern footage, you can not tell the difference. VERY detailed. I love this movie.
 
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About the ST III Klingon bridge vs. the one from ST IV: There's no way that's the same bridge. Not even if the Vulcans refit the damn thing. How do we know this? Because we've seen a lot of Klingon bridges since then, *and they all looked just like that one*. The bridge set as seen in ST IV is a standard Klingon design. We've seen many examples since then.

And of course even if the Vulcans rebuilt that BOP's bridge from top to bottom, they wouldn't rebuild it into a design that was still Klingon.

The only explanation possible is that this particular Klingon vessel had two bridges.
 
Not only was the Enchantment Under the Sea Dance recreated for Back to the Future, Part II; they also rebuilt Doc's garage for a brief scene in the alternate 1985 and Doc's 1955 house for the beginning of Back to the Future, Part III.

The Evil Dead said:
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.
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Yeah. Although some of the other bits in that movie aren't quite accurate. For example, in the real version of Plan 9 from Outer Space, the house that Bela Lugosi comes out of at the beginning has a huge garage on the left side. The house seen in Ed Wood doesn't have that.

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Captaindemotion said:
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--
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Only a small portion of the bridge, though. When Scotty first steps on the holodeck, the wide shot of the whole bridge was actually taken from TOS.
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Then there were all the recreations of Enterprise-D sets from "These Are the Voyages..." They rebuilt a few corridors, part of Counselor Troi's quarters, the observation lounge (although I can't tell if they're also using some forced perspective on that one), and a small corner of Ten Forward (with the initial wide establishing shot being taken from an actual Season 3 Next Generation episode; "The Price" I think).

In Red Dwarf Series VIII, they rebuilt Rimmer & Lister's quarters based on the designs from Series I & II, although it was a considerably smaller set because they only used it for one scene in "Back in the Red, Part I." We also saw a new version of Rimmer & Lister's quarters in "Back to Earth, Part I" which has some similar design elements as the previous versions but is not an exact replica of the Series I & II quarters or the Series III-V quarters.

Then there are instances on TV shows where a set will start out as a practical location but is eventually rebuilt on a soundstage in later episodes. On Tru Calling, the morgue was a practical location in the pilot and was then rebuilt on the soundstage when the show got picked up as a series. The rebuilt version was very similar except that it was bigger. In the early seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy's house (except for her bedroom) was a practical location. But as the show went on, they ended up building various segments of the house as a set until they had the entire ground floor duplicated. I think they'd finished the house by Season 3, which was fortunate for them since--after blowing up the high school in "Graduation Day, Part 2" set off every single car alarm within a 10 mile radius--by Season 4 they were no longer welcome in that neighborhood.
 
Trekker4747 said:
Technically they just redressed the corridor sets that had been standing for nearly 30 years from the ENT configuration back to the TNG one.
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No, they didn't. The Phase II/TMP sets were torn down at the end of Voyager because the wooden superstructure was rotting. The ENT sets were entirely new. The TMP/TNG/VGR corridors (plus engineering, sickbay, transporter, etc.) were on Stage 9, which is where ENT had its cave set and various "swing" sets. ENT's corridors and ship interiors were on Stage 8 and Stage 18.
 
Trekker4747 said:
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.
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Duh, why the hell didnt I realise that while posting?!

I feel so stupid...
 
The recreated some of the Underworld sets for the sequel Underworld: Evolution & the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Although, they hardly ever rebuilt them fully.

The big set reuse in Underworld: Evolution was Viktor's throne room. It was a major set in the 1st film but only appears in one scene in the 2nd film. So rather than rebuild the whole thing, they just did a small corner of it. The wider establishing shots are reused from the 1st film. They just digitally swapped out Selene with Kraven. Similarly, some shots of Markus' tomb rising from the floor are reused from the 1st film; again digitally swapping out Selene with Kraven and changed the letter on the tomb from a "V" for Viktor to an "M" for Markus.

There are also some other very brief scenes in Underworld: Evolution where we see Alexander Corvinus' men cleaning up after the mess of the first film or Markus visiting the safe house from the first film. In each of these shots, they just blue screened the new actors into shots of the old locations. They also combined a couple shots from the 1st film to create a new shot in Kraven's flashbacks where Kraven sees Selene kill Viktor. And in a case of reusing actors, not locations, Lucian's brief appearance in Tanis' flashback in the 2nd film is just reusing a shot of Lucian from the 1st film and swapping out the background.

In Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, they did a much more thorough job of rebuilding an entire set from the 1st film. Underworld only gave us brief flashbacks of Sonja's execution. Underworld: Rise of the Lycans shows us the whole thing, although the scene is somewhat different in the prequel. In particular, in Underworld, Sonja's execution was witnessed by dozens of Lycan slaves. But in Rise of the Lycans, they only people present were Sonja & Lucian.

In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the Black Pearl was just a deck facade built on top of a barge. But for Dead Man's Chest & At World's End, they built full-size seaworthy versions of both the Black Pearl & the Flying Dutchman.
 
They had to rebuild the New York museum set for "Night at the Museum 2":

http://hawaiian105.com/movies/notes/night-at-the-museum-battle-of-the-smithsonian/note/?printer=1

Finally, having struck the sets from the first film, Paré actually had to go back to square one again and completely rebuild the central hall of the Museum of Natural History -- like déjà vu all over again. "Even though we had to rebuild it completely, as soon as Sacajawea and Teddy Roosevelt and all the classic characters entered the set, it felt like home again," notes Paré.
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2 sequels shot back to back

The Borgified Corpse said:
In Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the Black Pearl was just a deck facade built on top of a barge. But for Dead Man's Chest & At World's End, they built full-size seaworthy versions of both the Black Pearl & the Flying Dutchman.
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This is what greenlighting 2 sequels to be shot back to back can do. The Trek feature films other than II:TWOK, III:TSFS, IV:TVH unplanned trilogy really don't have stories that continue on the same locations except the actual Enterprise ship and that is put in storage.
 
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.
 
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Mr. Laser Beam said:
About the ST III Klingon bridge vs. the one from ST IV: There's no way that's the same bridge. Not even if the Vulcans refit the damn thing. How do we know this? Because we've seen a lot of Klingon bridges since then, *and they all looked just like that one*. The bridge set as seen in ST IV is a standard Klingon design. We've seen many examples since then.

And of course even if the Vulcans rebuilt that BOP's bridge from top to bottom, they wouldn't rebuild it into a design that was still Klingon.

The only explanation possible is that this particular Klingon vessel had two bridges.
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A main bridge and a battle-bridge. Maybe.

Or else it's actually a second BoP - or maybe the Klingons have removable plug-in bridge modules like Starfleet vessels supposedly have, and there was an otherwise wrecked BoP on Vulcan with a usable bridge that could be swapped in.
 
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Connor MacLeod's apartment from Highlander was, IIRC, rebuilt twice. I know for sure they definately rebuilt it for Highlander: Endgame and I think they also rebuilt it for Highlander: The Final Dimension. In Highlander: Endgame, they also rebuilt the exterior of Connor MacLeod's old hut in Scotland. (The original film was shot in Scotland while Highlander: Endgame was shot in Romania.) Highlander: Endgame also features an establishing shot of the village of Glenfinnen that was a digitally altered version of a shot from the original film. They changed it from day to night and erased the part where you can see Connor MacLeod running away from the village.

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