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Hamilton, ON will double as Detroit, MI in ‘Robocop’
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Posted on 09/05/2012 7:20:50 AM PDT by KingOfVagabonds
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How do you make a city look like Detroit? Hmm...
To: KingOfVagabonds
Detroit is too dangerous to film in probably. It’s far too run down for a post-apocalyptic film.
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:23:05 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: KingOfVagabonds
The original Robocop was filmed in Dallas.
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:24:30 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(I'm voting for Ryan and that other guy.)
To: KingOfVagabonds
Well, to be fair, quite a bit of the original Robocop was filmed in Dallas, Texas.
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:25:32 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(Rose, there's a Messerschmitt in the kitchen. Clean it up, will ya?)
To: dfwgator
parts of it, exterior scenes especially
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:27:17 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
To: KingOfVagabonds
Give it a Democrat mayor and city council and it’ll be looking like Detroit in no time.
Seriously.
Detroit is STILL too shitty to use in a movie about a “future” Detroit that’s decayed and dying?
That really says something.
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:29:23 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: IYAS9YAS
Paul Verhoeven actually scouted Detroit and thought it was already too decrepit and decayed to film the original movie there. Detroit’s only gotten worse, so it’ll be interesting to see what they have to do to Hamilton, Ontario. Maybe we should bomb it?
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:31:02 AM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: KingOfVagabonds; All
Since Samule Jackson is in it I wont be going to see this one.... I may DL it from the net to see it but I wont give money to the Hollyweird propaganda machine
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:44:27 AM PDT
by
SouthernBoyupNorth
("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
To: KingOfVagabonds
Hamilton’s a nice city - a huge Muslim population, but a nice city.
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posted on
09/05/2012 7:53:10 AM PDT
by
Psalm 73
("Gentlemen, you can't fight in here - this is the War Room".)
To: KingOfVagabonds
Hollywood armor doesn't stop real Detroit bullets.
And don't think of filming anything short of a remake of "Battle of the Bulge" in Chicago.
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posted on
09/05/2012 8:05:11 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
("Government is the only thing that we all belong to"=implicit repeal of the 13th amendment for all.)
To: KingOfVagabonds
I would not be surprised if it was less costly on insurance, craft services, lodging, and other expenses that rack up quickly outside of Detroit.
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posted on
09/05/2012 8:07:56 AM PDT
by
pikachu
(After Monday and Tuesday, even the calender goes W T F !)
To: KingOfVagabonds
Downtown Houston was Detroit in one of the previous Robo movies
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posted on
09/05/2012 8:10:55 AM PDT
by
Figment
To: KingOfVagabonds; Clive; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; ...
As bad as Hamilton is (I live less than an hour's drive away), making it look like Detroit will be a huge job and will probably require some heavy-duty CGI. There is ONE street here in Toronto that looks like Detroit but it's only a block long.
Canada Ping!
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posted on
09/05/2012 8:49:27 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
To: pikachu
There would definitely be insurance savings, but now that our dollar is at par they probably wouldn’t save much on other costs. Our film industry peaked in the 1990s when our dollar was worth less than 70 cents.
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posted on
09/05/2012 8:53:53 AM PDT
by
Squawk 8888
(Tories in- now the REAL work begins!)
To: KingOfVagabonds
Yeah, it’s not like there is a whole bunch of empty space available in Detroit. Give ‘em one of those neighborhoods slated to be bulldozed and have at it!
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posted on
09/05/2012 9:02:04 AM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Taranto: "The whole point of the metaphor is that if you can hear the whistle, you're the dog.")
To: GeronL
The Secret Service can’t even keep their truck from being stolen.
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posted on
09/05/2012 9:11:48 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: GeronL
The NBC miniseries about The Temptations (which still reruns often on cable) was filmed here in Pittsburgh. Detroit at this point in time not only looks really bad on film, but it is indeed unsafe for film crews to work there.
Toronto and Hamilton have stood in for Detroit before. A cheesy rock-and-roll flick called Detroit Rock City comes to mind.
To: KingOfVagabonds
Ive been to Hamilton..
Its a college town...
and SOOOOOOO much cleaner than Willard’s home town...
To: KingOfVagabonds
Previous Dallas and Houston (and another city) had been used to “simulate” Detroit.
Nothing new here.
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posted on
09/05/2012 11:30:56 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Only Obama put a dog on the roof of his mouth. Dogs are friends, not food.)
To: KingOfVagabonds
I’m tired of “reboots” (they don’t even bother to call them remakes anymore).
Hollywood is out of ideas. Stick a fork in it and let the Democrats find another source of money to run for office.
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posted on
09/05/2012 11:34:02 AM PDT
by
a fool in paradise
(Only Obama put a dog on the roof of his mouth. Dogs are friends, not food.)
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