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I think you could make a comedy about how a film studio reuses the sets for faking a landing on an extraterrestrial body are re-used to make sci-fi TV shows...

“Criminy! We can’t use that camera angle and lighting! Everyone will recognize it as the landing site for [Capricorn I, for example]!”

“Can’t we just tell folks we were inspired by...the location?”

“It’d be _too_ good!”

[Rolling eyes] “What if we jumbled the rocks, knocked over part of that crater wall, and used a filter?”

[Sternly] “And what if someone superimposes photos from the landing and the show and points that out?”

[Getting angry] “And what if the producers were _serious_ enough about the show...and the rest...that they wouldn’t try to reuse _everything_ from the...previous production? Especially that [Jupiter II] lander!”

[Calming down] “Well...That’s the sort of _obvious_ cost saving-measure no one bats an eye at. Lander models are in all the stores.”


48 posted on 03/02/2024 1:16:31 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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List of productions using the Vasquez Rocks as a filming location
49 posted on 03/03/2024 10:12:21 AM PST by x
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