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The nature of film and television production means that you don't have to actually be in the exact location where the action is taking place. While you would think there is an advantage to actually filming on location, a decision is made to find a generic alleyway or studio backlot and simply have the characters say they are in New York City when they are really in California. Add some graffiti to the walls, trash on the ground and fake snow drizzling on the actors and what was filmed in an 80 degree palm tree environment can give the feel of a cold New England winter. How convincing it may be varies, especially to those familiar with the area and may spot unique signage or a Local Hangout that gives it away. The main reason this happens is that a production crew is much more than a cameraman, director, and actors. There are usually at least two or three dozen people working on prepping a location, providing the appropriate light, and transporting the equipment to film a scene. Moving everyone, especially on a weekly television budget, is sometimes implausible even if the location is willing to permit filming. Other times, the actual location is not an option for security, political, and/or cultural reasons. Even in the most general sense, many cities are averse to blocking off the entire downtown for weeks on end or offering unlimited access to important landmarks, and so some sequences are filmed piecemeal, getting a couple vintage shots of actors near scenic imagery and then finding a more practical location to film the rest. Averting this can also be something of a Bragging Rights Reward, letting audiences know they had the money to block off an entire metropolitan downtown district and have Stuff Blowing Up. Another time that this may be necessary is if the original location (and this is true especially for period pieces) no longer looks like what it did in story. While obviously it might be a bit difficult filming an ancient Rome in Rome itself, as the city resembles Caesar's city in name only, even the London of today is quite different from the London of Victorian times through the early part of the twentieth century (thanks in no small part to the Luftwaffe). This makes some doubling in another city more valuable simply because that location actually looks more period-accurate note Görlitz, a city of less than 100,000 at the easternmost border of Saxony with Poland, has stood in for numerous other cities, because it was left nearly unscathed by the war and has seen few urban planners trying to rebuild the whole thing according to their vision since. Even more famously, Prague in the modern day Czech Republic was the stand-in for pre-war Paris. Unlike the actual capital of France, Prague still had its medieval and renaissance era buildings (in varying states of disrepair) and it was cheaper too. It was additionally one of the few ways to (legally) get behind the Iron Curtain for smugglers, spies, and defectors, though the extent to which Hollywood-affiliated people took advantage of this is grossly exaggerated by both fiction and the documents produced by the House Un-American Activities Commission at the time. It probably was done, but nowhere near as widely as people thought. Conversely, filming in a story set 20 Minutes in the Future will have its own problems because to make a location seem futuristic would require a lot of construction and visual effects anyway. Any exotic foreign locale in a TV series or film will find some local environment that feels slightly different to give an appropriate look, such as Kirk's Rock. For British sci-fi shows, it's "Quarry Doubling" — any desolate alien planet is usually a quarry (usually the BBC Quarry) within a couple of hours' drive from London — or Doubling for London. One of the most famous examples of this is in Star Trek (and all subsequent seriesnote at least until the Alex Kurtzman era in the late 2010s/2020s by which point TV budgets had increased and CGI technology advanced enough to either film in other locals or edit things in post to look more alien), in which every planet they land on looks exactly like the deserts of southern California, the redwood forests of Northern California, or the mountains of Central California (assuming it isn't a studio cyclorama instead). Oh, and from time to time the script might call for a beach. Any ideas? This is actually one of the main reasons why Hollywood and the Los Angeles area became the capital of American filmmaking.note The primary reason was Thomas Edison's Motion Picture Patents Company required filmmakers to pay exorbitant licensing fees to make films. Most did not want to pay, so they set up shop in the Los Angeles area, and if Edison's patent enforcement thugs found them, the Mexican Border was only a hundred miles away. The varied locales within two or three hours drive (deserts, beaches, mountains, farmland, ranches), along with the consistent year-round good weather, made Southern California ideal for making movies. This will end up happening in any film production hub. The reasons why vary greatly depending on what the production is looking for, the tax incentives and maybe some Creator Provincialism. State and national governments know this, and the combination of advertising and economic boon for production (employ local crews, recruit local actors for extra parts and supporting roles, hire local caterers, increased traffic to local sites, etc) make them frequently offer generous tax credits to lure film and television productions to their locales, to the point where even California itself has started offering its own tax incentives to keep Hollywood filming near, well, Hollywood. Some sites were once hugely popular areas but became more restricted because everyone wanted to film there, and may take an especially powerful artist, popular franchise or Big Name Fan to get permission. A breakdown of different locations and the reasons why can be seen in the California Doubling Analysis Tab. Of course, this can lead to Television Geography, as well as Misplaced Wildlife, Misplaced Vegetation, and It's Always Spring. In many cases, the average viewer may not be familiar with the location in question, but it can end up bugging those viewers who have been or actually live in those locations. Also take into account that any production wants to Shoot the Money, and may choose a more scenic place to film instead of the less impressive place it actually is. This can have a very odd effect the first time one visits southern California. Upon seeing for the first time those scrub-covered hills and twisty roads, one gets a truly unearthly sense of deja vu. "Have I been here before?" you ask yourself. Then you realize that you have... on TV! For those who live in southern California, it is amusing to point out places one recognizes from TV shows. The most used location is Griffith Park, whose scrabble mountains can be seen in nearly every 1950s "jungle" movie and M*A*S*H. This can lead to The Mountains of Illinois. Can also lead to hilarity when the setting location becomes famous for an unrelated reason, and suddenly pictures of the actual place are all over the news. The easiest way to avoid California Doubling is to simply have the setting actually be California (usually Los Angeles or Burbank, both of which are near Hollywood and where a good chunk of the television industry is actually located). Indeed, many television shows, especially sitcoms, do exactly that. And even a show that isn't normally set in California can have its characters go there for an episode or two; see Filming Location Cameo. This is also the reason why so many TV shows are set in New York City, because most of the TV studios that aren't in California are located there. Compare Informed Location. Contrast with Canada Does Not Exist, where the shooting location actually affects the storyline. |
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Code Red: the Rubicon Conspiracy was set in the jungles of Africa, but filmed in Australia. | |
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F/X: The Series is supposed to take place in New York, but it becomes obvious even early on that Toronto is doubling for it, as numerous landmarks are seen throughout the series, including the parking lot outside the famous Muchmusic building (at Queen and John Street), which even has a billboard for The Phantom of the Opera (which was playing a long engagement at the Pantages Theatre at that time). The raiilyard leading into Union Station are highlighted during the episode introducing Victor Loubar ("The Chameleon", while the Skydome and CN Tower can be glimpsed in the background of a few exterior shots. | |
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On the other hand, Hamilton and Brantford doubled for Winnipeg in The Tracey Fragments. | |
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An odd web comic exists in Ansem Retort. For some background, it's a sprite comic based off Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. For the most part, backgrounds for that game are used for scenery. There are two instances of a background being repeated: The Destiny Islands background has been used as both the scenery for Mexico and the scenery for Hawaii. The background for a room in Alice in Wonderland was used for both an undisclosed location in Eastern Europe and a hotel room in London, England. |
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As Sherlock is also produced by BBC Wales, Cardiff has doubled for parts of London in that show as well. However, location shoots requiring distinct London or Devonshire scenery were shot in the corresponding places, averting this trope. (The Devonshire village seen in one episode is still actually Welsh, though.) | |
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A Loud House Christmas has Atlanta double for the fictional Royal Woods, Michigan. There's also a scene where Lincoln and Clyde film a Miami Beach attack near a lake at Royal Woods, which means that for that scene, Atlanta doubled for Royal Woods, which doubles for Miami. | |
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Like two out of the first three movies in the series, Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House was set in Chicago, but unlike them, it was filmed in Cape Town. | |
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The adaptation of Room was shot in Toronto, which stood in for Akron, Ohio. The Prince Edward Viaduct and the Don Valley Parkway can be seen out of a hospital window, and the brief skating scene near the end was shot at the rink at Nathan Phillips Square, with the concrete arches over the rink visible. | |
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Jason and the Argonauts: Several scenes were filmed in Italy instead of Greece, Aegean Sea islands and the Black Sea (the way to Colchis, modern-day Armenia). Amusingly, the temple of Hera in Paestum near Salerno was used as a temple of Zeus. | |
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In GoldenEye, Cuba is actually Puerto Rico, the Russian dam from the opening is in Switzerland, and many St. Petersburg externals are in London. The train scenes were filmed on the Nene Valley Railway in Cambridgeshire, also the scene of filming for the circus train scene in Octopussy. | |
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Pokémon Detective Pikachu primarily uses real locations in London for the fictional Ryme City, modified with props and CGI to make them look like a part of the Pokémon universe. (As a side effect, this means cars in Ryme City drive on the left.) A lot of outdoor scenes outside the city limits were filmed in the Scottish Highlands, including Glen Nevis. | |
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In Foreign Affairs (1966), the exterior scenes of the Soviet Embassy were filmed at the home of Bob Monkhouse. | |
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The art deco facade of the R. C. Harris Water Treatment Plant has appeared in several movies and TV series, usually as either the villains' lair (The Pretender, Mutant X, Undercover Brother) or an insane asylum (In the Mouth of Madness, RoboCop: The Series). | |
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The Night Shift takes place in San Antonio, Texas but was filmed in Albuquerque. | |
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In Down in the Delta, the crime-ridden Chicago neighborhood where Rosa lives with her daughter and grandkids is played by Toronto. | |
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In the Missing in Action movies, Vietnam is played by the Philippines in the first (which was actually the second) and third movies, while Mexico and the Caribbean island of St. Kitts took the "role" in the second (which was the first). | |
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Some of the New York scenes in John Wick: Chapter 2 were filmed in Montreal, including the opening vehicle chase as well as parts of the subway fights. | |
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Royal Pains is set in The Hamptons and shot mostly in The Hamptons (the producers try to keep all the location filming on Long Island, at least). | |
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Doctor Zhivago was shot with different Spanish locations (especially in the province of Soria) standing for Siberia. Soria, as well as among others La Pedriza and La Ciudad Encantada, have also doubled as Cimmeria in the first Conan the Barbarian (1982) movie. Interestingly, the makers of Doctor Zhivago actually tried to get permission to film in the Soviet Union. | |
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Return to Oz was entirely filmed in England. The Kansas scenes are actually located on Salisbury Plain. | |
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Brokeback Mountain is set in Wyoming, but it was filmed almost entirely in the Canadian Rockies in southern Alberta. | |
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The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland was shot in Wilmington, North Carolina, doubling for New York City (for the main setting of Sesame Street) and the fictional Grouchland. | |
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Nashville also averts this trope except when it leaves the title city - in "I'm Sorry For You, My Friend" Nashville plays San Diego (thus taking California Doubling to its logical conclusion), Atlanta, Austin and itself. the most extreme case came in the final season where Tennessee stood in for Bolivia. (Even here there's an exception, as noted in the Aversions folder.) | |
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay have Atlanta double for Appalachia. | |
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Cyberbully takes place in St. Louis, Missouri but was shot in Montreal. | |
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Lucky Luke (2009) is set in the American Wild West, and was filmed entirely in Argentina. | |
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Many of the exterior shots in the first season of Gilmore Girls were filmed in Unionville, Ontario, which can be weird during a rewatch of the series as the Stars Hollow scenes were filmed in Burbank for the rest of the series. | |
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Both The Cosby Show and The Cosby Mysteries were set and filmed in New York (Bill Cosby hated working in Hollywood). | |
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Briarpatch takes place in Texas, but was filmed in New Mexico. | |
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The Philippines doubled for Vietnam in Apocalypse Now and a biker film called The Losers. The Philippines are also a particularly favorite country for a lot of low-budget Hong Kong movies to double for the US and other countries due to the different kinds of urban cities, beaches and deep jungles. | |
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The Bold Type is set in New York City but is shot in Montreal. | |
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The Washington Sentinels in The Replacements (2000) played their home games in Baltimore's M&T Bank Stadium. Also, the Sentinels' only road game in the film was shot at FedEx Field, home of the Washington Commanders. | |
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Fargo: Seasons 1 through 3 are set in Minnesota, as the opening title cards make abundantly clear. These seasons were filmed in Calgary and surrounding Alberta towns, despite Minnesota having its own film industry. Season 4 is set in 1950s Kansas City, but was filmed in Chicago. It's pretty apparent that the Kansas City Union Station massacre late in the season is actually in Chicago Union Station. |
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The Girls episode "The Return" has Hannah go back to her family in what purports to be East Lansing, Michigan. This bit was actually shot in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, New York, a suburban area just a bit north of New York City; it certainly looks like nothing like East Lansing (for one thing, it's too hilly). | |
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Haven is an interesting variation. It plays the trope straight, but ends up avoiding The Mountains of Illinois and Television Geography because of the filming location they chose for doubling. The show is set in Maine but filmed in Nova Scotia. The aesthetics are nearly indistinguishable. Lunenberg, Nova Scotia is the fictional Haven, and looks more like coastal Maine than some towns actually on the Maine coast. | |
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Prophecy is based on Maine, when it was actually shot in New Columbia of Canada. It also popularized the Canada Doubling. | |
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Salem is set in Salem, Massachusetts, but is mostly filmed in Shreveport, Louisiana. | |
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The American version of Skins was filmed in Toronto with the setting left ambiguous so American viewers could imagine it in their city. Unfortunately, they didn't bother to cover up some local signage on bus stops. | |
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Smash is both set and filmed in New York City - but like 30 Rock above, scenes set outside NYC are doubled (when Karen flies to her home state of Iowa in "Enter Mr. DiMaggio," the Hawkeye State is played by a New York suburb). | |
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Gemenc forest (Hungary) doubles frequently for other forests (such as in the Robin Hood series or in Kröd Mändoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire). | |
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Their next project Treme is set and filmed in New Orleans. | |
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Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle is set in New Jersey, but most of the movie was shot in Canada. The White Castle in the end was actually constructed on site because there are no White Castles in Canada. | |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles took Indy all over the world. The show was really shot in many exotic locales in Europe, Asia and Africa. | |
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia moves out to Philadelphia to film every season. However, see under the California heading - a lot of the interiors and some exteriors are filmed in California. |
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The Simpsons: In the episode "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play," the show-within-a-show "Hunch" is set in New York, but filmed in Lethbridge, Alberta. | |
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Averted in The Jackal, which had an extended portion filmed, and somewhat arbitrarily set, in Montreal. However, in the climactic chase scene at the end, the Montreal metro stood in for the Washington Metro. | |
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon filmed its climactic battle in Chicago and they actually had entire portions of Chicago blocked off for filming. Played straight for the scenes on the moon though. | |
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Despite Georgia's liberal tax breaks for TV and film production, Cocaine Bear, which is set in North Georgia and South Tennessee, was filmed in Wicklow, Ireland. | |
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Inspector Gadget 2 is set in the fictional Riverton, Ohio but was filmed in and around Brisbane, Australia with an Australian supporting cast. The commentary track on the DVD notes that actors would occasionally lapse back into their natural Australian accents. | |
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An interesting example from Full House. The show is set in San Francisco, but anytime they do on location filming it's apparent they filmed in Los Angeles, where the show was filmed. This is averted in the season eight premiere where they actually filmed on location in San Francisco. | |
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While Titanic (1997) does include footage from the actual shipwreck, and there was some filming in the Northern Atlantic where the ship sunk (the Canadian province of Nova Scotia), most of it was actually done in the Pacific Ocean - mostly in Baja California, Mexico, using a studio Fox built for the production and a huge water tank. | |
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Battlefield 4 has a particularly amusing (and possibly self-referential) instance, where the fourth mission is explicitly stated to take place in Singapore, but if you pay attention you'll notice that the actual level geography is almost identical to that for the multiplayer level Siege of Shanghai. | |
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This speaks true of their other films, too: The Big Lebowski is explicitly Los Angeles; Fargo is Fargo, North Dakota; No Country for Old Men was filmed and set near the Texas-Mexico border; and O Brother, Where Art Thou? is steeped in Depression-era Mississippi. | |
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Graves takes place and is filmed in New Mexico. It takes full advantage of all the beautiful scenery the state has to offer. | |
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WandaVision: Westview, New Jersey is represented by various locations in both Atlanta and Los Angeles. The atrium of the Georgia World Congress Center is used for scenes set at SWORD headquarters. The neighborhood in "The All-New Halloween Spooktacular" where Vision meets Agnes is a real community in Williamson, Georgia; Rolling Hill Drive is the name of the actual road, while "Ellis Avenue" (which is the original border of the Hex) is a re-signing of Williamson Zebulon Road. |
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The Marine was mostly shot in Queensland, Australia but set in South Carolina. | |
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The Matrix. The scene in which Neo says "I used to eat lunch there. Good noodles", the car is clearly driving through the Chinatown end of George street in Sydney's CBD. Of course, you also see the Sydney Tower and the Maritime Services Board control tower on the city's skyline. | |
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The Wonderful World Of Disney's three-part production "The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh" averts this, particularly notable as it was made in '63, and instead filmed it in England. | |
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The Fox cop series The Good Guys is both set and filmed in Dallas, also using local talent in small roles. | |
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The Good Wife is set in Chicago and filmed in New York. It's hid pretty well by the fact that much of the filming is in done in the outer boroughs. The writers clearly didn't do much research regarding Chicago geography, but that's a whole other trope. They did find out the executions of Death Row prisoners are often carried out in Indiana, though, because Terre Haute has a Federal execution chamber, and so Death Penalty appeals lawyers pleading cases in Illinois are often from Indiana. |
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The Sandman was filmed in London and the south of England. The scenes set in London were actually filmed in London, but so was a sequence set in Newcastle and another supposedly taking place in Buffalo, New York. For the episodes set in Florida, they went all the way out to Poole in Dorset. For the Cereal Convention, supposedly taking place at a hotel in Georgia, it was back to London; the hotel is one of those serving London Heathrow Airport. | |
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House of Wax (2005) was shot in Queensland, with areas around the Gold Coast doubling for Louisiana. | |
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Graceland takes place in California, but is actually filmed in Florida, creating a strange inversion of this trope. You can see this in many shots, when there are no mountains where there should be some. | |
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Resident Evil: Apocalypse features several things to make Torontonians grin. Perhaps the most obvious of which is the nuke that just so happens to explode right on City Hall (the recognizable dual curved towers). Other fun features include the fact the film makers neglected to airbrush out the CN Tower, numerous logos on buildings on the Bay St. area and the Toronto Sun logo on the sides of several paperboxes. | |
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Batman Begins and The Dark Knight took place in the fictional Gotham City, of course, but clearly were filmed in Chicago. To the extent that some fans take it for granted that Gotham City is the Nolanverse's equivalent of Chicago. Much of the first film was also filmed in England (the fields surrounding Wayne Manor and what's left of it after it's burned down are clearly not in the US). Chicago also doubles for Hong Kong in The Dark Knight: when Fox is talking with Lau on the roof of Lau's Hong Kong office, you can clearly see Chicago's McCormick Place in the background. Elements of Gotham City from both films (and presumably the third) were also built in the massive disused airship hangars at RAF Cardington, Bedfordshire, England, in a weird case of this trope. In The Dark Knight Rises, Chicago stopped doubling for Gotham. Instead, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Los Angeles were used. Notably from Pittsburgh is the usage of Heinz Field, the home stadium of the Steelers, as the home stadium of the Gotham Rogues. Other parts are represented by Los Angeles. In the same film, the Highlands of Scotland doubled for Uzbekistan, of all places (the Scenery Porn during Bane's plane heist). This was incredibly obvious to anyone who lived nearby or who visits regularly. Not that anyone is complaining. Even more, whatever wasn't filmed in Pittsburgh or Los Angeles was filmed in New York City due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg being a fan of the series (not to mention a subtle tribute to the fact that Gotham, is, in fact, one of the DC Universe's homages to New York along with Metropolis; the Nolanverse even has such things as the police cars using a livery inspired by the one used by the NYPD in the 1990s). Notably, Bane's attack on the Gotham Stock Exchange had exterior filming on the same street as the New York Stock Exchange; and the final battle that takes up most of the film's final act has locations such as Saks Fifth Avenue clearly visible during car chases revolving around a jury-rigged nuclear bomb. |
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Haywire, which otherwise averts this trope (the movie's Ireland and Spain settings were indeed filmed there), has New Mexico playing New York State. | |
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House of Cards (UK) indulged in doubling, using Manchester Town Hall for The Houses of Parliament internal shots. This was half because the town hall was designed to be a perfect replica of parliament in some areas, and partially because getting permits and time to film in the actual parliament buildings is problematic at best. | |
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House of Cards (US) is set in Washington DC, with parts in exotic locales like China, St. Louis, New York, Kansas City and California. But due to high costs of filming in Washington, nearly all location shots (and some interiors like restaurants and hearing rooms) were done in the Baltimore area, which is cheaper to shoot in and much closer to the show's sets in Joppa, northeast of Baltimore City. Averted in the second season when one plotline does take place in Joppa. | |
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The 2004 remake of Shall We Dance? was filmed here, going so far as using the legislative building's bathrooms for a scene. | |
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Scenic Lithuania doubles for Merrie Olde England in The New Adventures of Robin Hood. | |
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Averted by both the original and the remake of Hawaii Five-O, which meant in the case of the latter that Daniel Dae Kim didn't have to move. The original averted it so much so that those episodes which weren't "Filmed entirely on location in Hawaii" (like the two-parter "Once Upon a Time") don't carry that credit. Double subverted in the opening scene of the remake's first episode, which is set in South Korea, but filmed in Hawaii. And then again in "Ua Hopu", where the scenes with Steve and Wo Fat set in Japan (with the exception of the aerial shots) were filmed in, you guessed it, Hawaii. |
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Nikita was mainly filmed in Toronto and the surrounding Ontario area, which doubled for a very wide variety of locales, including New York City, rural New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Quebec, Russia, Belarus, China, Mexico, The Netherlands, and many more. | |
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2, however, is notably the first film in the franchise to be filmed entirely in New York City and the surrounding areas; making it the largest production to be filmed in the city. | |
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October Faction: The series was filmed in Cambridge and Toronto, Ontario. It takes place in New York state, USA. | |
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The Cherry Queen is set in Germany between 1913 and 1946, and was shot in the Czech Republic. | |
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You'd think a movie named Chicago would be shot in the eponymous city, wouldn't you? Nope, it's mostly Ontario. Naturally, this annoyed many Chicago viewers. When asked what he thought of the movie Chicago, Mayor Daley replied, "I would have liked it better if it had been filmed in Chicago!" To a Toronto viewer who didn't see it as a big deal, Chicago film critic Roger Ebert retorted, "If a musical named 'O Canada' were currently being filmed in Chicago, how would that make you feel?" | |
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Little Sweetheart is based off of a book set in France, is a UK film with mostly American actors, was filmed in Florida and is set in Texas. Why they didn't just set it in Florida, seeing as they used an entire real Florida town, is beyond us. | |
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St. Louis (mostly East St. Louis, but some on the other side of the river) also doubled for New York on Escape from New York as parts of the area had suffered enough damage to make for a convincing post-apocalyptic setting. A number of the shooting locations have since been restored or rebuilt. | |
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The Boys (2019) is set primarily in New York, but filmed in and around Greater Toronto. | |
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Parodied in one Wonder Woman comic. When the titular heroine is watching a hypothetical film based on her life, one of her many, many complaints is how much Paradise Island shamelessly resembles Florida. | |
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John Adams takes place in various parts of colonial United States, including Philadelphia and Boston. However, the entire mini-series (save the European scenes) was shot in the state of Virginia. Scenes that took place in BOTH Philadelphia and Boston were filmed using old colonial buildings in and around Williamsburg. However, the scenes taking place in Europe were shot on-location. The TV movie "Killing Kennedy", which was also shot in the Richmond area, despite the scenes taking place mostly in Dallas circa 1963. Richmond also doubled for New Orleans, Washington DC, Russia, and Mexico City while stock footage was used for key aerial shots. Also Turn is filmed in Central Virginia, despite taking place in the Revolutionary-era Northeast (centering on the Long Island town of Setauket, but frequently venturing to New York City, rural Connecticut and New Jersey, and even to Philadelphia for a few episodes). Virginia is basically known for being the filming site of a whole bunch of historical period pieces, regardless of where they actually occurred, mostly because Virginia has good tax breaks and because Virginia has an embarrassment of colonial sites to film at, while the Northeastern sites are frequently covered over by development (try to shoot scenes of Washington's New Jersey camps close to their locations in Morris County and it'll be hard not to accidentally get a McMansion, a modern paved road, or an office park in the background, unless you want to spend extra budget on CGI). |
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Under the Dome is set in Maine but is filmed in Southport, Wilmington, and Burgaw, North Carolina. | |
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The Paris half of Highlander the Series was filmed in and set in Paris. | |
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Diamonds Are Forever mostly averts this as a good chunk of it was actually filmed in Las Vegas. However the scene where Bond is riding the elevator to Whyte's penthouse was filmed in Pinewood Studios. And the first scene with Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd which took place in the South African desert was shot within the Vegas city limits. | |
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The medieval England-set Cadfael was filmed in Hungary, presumably since most of England doesn't have that undeveloped medieval look any more. | |
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An episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds lampshades this when two characters get sent back in time to the 21st century. One misidentifies their location as New York City until the other corrects him by pointing out a big sign that says "Toronto" on it, because Toronto is actually Toronto this time. | |
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Footloose is set in the fictional town of Bomont in a unspecified Middle America state, but was shot in Utah County, Utah, with filming done in American Fork, Payson, Vineyard, Provo and Lehi (with the prominent Lehi Roller Mills grain towers seen at several points). At the time, the film was often mistakenly listed by media sources as taking place in Utah. | |
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Roadtrip is supposed to be set in Ithaca, New York; however, the film was mostly shot in Georgia, primarily around Atlanta and Athens on the campuses of Georgia Tech, Emory University, and the University of Georgia. One of the college tour scenes was filmed in Sanford Stadium with UGA's "G" logo visible on the field. | |
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her (2013): A number of exterior shots where Theodore walks around what's presented as 2025 Los Angeles are recognizably (to anyone who's been there) filmed in Shanghai, in order to make the cityscape seem more futuristic. However, the film avoids giving the game away by not showing any of the Chinese city's iconic buildings such as the Oriental Pearl Tower. | |
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her (2013) | hasFeature |
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Arrested Development is set in Newport Beach and Balboa Island, but is filmed primarily in Culver City and Marina del Rey. The use of Culver Ciy locations that are less frequently used in other shows and their similar geography (both in Southern California, in neighbouring counties) make for some fairly effective doubling, only appearing especially jarring to some Newport Beach natives. | |
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The Pink Panther and its series avert this most of the time (i.e., filming on location), but A Shot in the Dark was specifically filmed in Borehamwood at MGM's British Studios. The biggest evidence of this is a scene where Inspector Clouseau runs through a room, out the window and into the Seine — which was just a large tank filled with thousands of gallons of water. | |
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Oblivion (2013) is set in New York City and New York State, but it was filmed (for the most part) on location in Iceland. Justified in that the Alien Invasion and subsequent war has turned the place unrecognizable except for some remaining landmarks. | |
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The TV miniseries The Lost Room has a scene set in Las Vegas. In one take, an Albuquerque bus drives past; in another, the Sandia Mountains - what Albuquerque has to the west instead of a skyline - are clearly visible. | |
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Chronicle is set in Seattle, but was mostly shot in Cape Town. | |
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The Spider-Man Trilogy for the most part split filming between New York City (where the movies are set) and Los Angeles. The second and third movies have other cities stand in for New York: The traintop battle between Spidey and Doc Ock in Spider-Man 2 was filmed on the Chicago 'L'. This was a necessity because while the New York City Subway does have a substantial amount of elevated trackage, all of it is in the less-photogenic outer boroughs, and there is none in Manhattan outside of small portions of the 1 train (one scene where Spidey is thrown off the train and dragged along the street was filmed under the viaduct that carries the 1 train across Manhattan Valley at 125th Street) due to most of the elevated lines being replaced with subways in the 1940s. To the movie's credit, every effort was made to conceal any obvious indicators that this is Chicago, although some unaltered station signs for Clark / Lake are momentarily visible as the two foes are getting their footing. The chase scene in Spider-Man 3 where Spider-Man confronts Sandman as he's trying to hijack an armored car was done in Cleveland. |
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In The Dark Knight Rises, Chicago stopped doubling for Gotham. Instead, Pittsburgh, New York City, and Los Angeles were used. Notably from Pittsburgh is the usage of Heinz Field, the home stadium of the Steelers, as the home stadium of the Gotham Rogues. Other parts are represented by Los Angeles. In the same film, the Highlands of Scotland doubled for Uzbekistan, of all places (the Scenery Porn during Bane's plane heist). This was incredibly obvious to anyone who lived nearby or who visits regularly. Not that anyone is complaining. Even more, whatever wasn't filmed in Pittsburgh or Los Angeles was filmed in New York City due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg being a fan of the series (not to mention a subtle tribute to the fact that Gotham, is, in fact, one of the DC Universe's homages to New York along with Metropolis; the Nolanverse even has such things as the police cars using a livery inspired by the one used by the NYPD in the 1990s). Notably, Bane's attack on the Gotham Stock Exchange had exterior filming on the same street as the New York Stock Exchange; and the final battle that takes up most of the film's final act has locations such as Saks Fifth Avenue clearly visible during car chases revolving around a jury-rigged nuclear bomb. |
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Search: It's unknown where scenes set in the Korean Demilitarised Zone were filmed, but for obvious reasons it was impossible to film them on location. | |
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Every single scene of Sense8 was shot in the location being depicted, and with a cast of characters scattered across the globe this meant a lot of location-hopping. The crew even went as far as filming a scene set during a flight from England to Iceland during the actual flight they took between the two locations. Unfortunately this lead to a truly enormous budget, often quoted as $9 million per episode, which played a large part in it being cancelled after two seasons. | |
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Prisoners of the Lost Universe is set in California but shot in South Africa, a fact made obvious when vehicles are shown left hand driving. | |
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The Mechanic (1972): Some scenes were actually filmed on location in New Orleans. However, New Orleans also happened to double for Chicago, Houston and Colombia. | |
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Moonraker has an amusing case, where to justify French locations in what is said to be California, they say Hugo Drax purchased a castle in France and moved it brick by brick to his estate. | |
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A portion of Jurassic World was filmed in Louisiana, with some filming done at the abandoned Six Flags New Orleans. | |
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A Million Ways to Die in the West has New Mexico doubling for the fictional Old Stump, Arizona. | |
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Dora and the Lost City of Gold is set in Los Angeles and Peru, but was filmed in and around Brisbane and the Gold Coast. | |
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All Wrong Turn films are set in West Virginia, but first two movies were shot in Canada and the third one was shot in Bulgaria. | |
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Barney's Great Adventure was filmed in the Montreal area but takes place in a generic Everytown, America setting. | |
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The entirety of The Pacific was filmed in various locations Victoria. It doubles for everything from Guadalcanal and Pelieliu to Mobile, Alabama, and California. It's also averted when the Marines actually go to Melbourne on Liberty. | |
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Escape Room and its sequel were set in Chicago and New York respectively, but were both shot mostly in Cape Town, South Africa. | |
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The outdoors scenes of Los Angeles in the original Total Recall were actually Mexico City; ostensibly because the design, cleanliness and architecture of Mexico City's subway stations have a futuristic look to them. Many other exterior shots were filmed in public roadways and plazas. The rest of the movie was filmed in Estudios Churubusco soundstages. The 2012 film on the other hand was obviously filmed in Toronto. the subway at one point is supposed to be the London Underground, but is blatantly the Toronto subway system. |
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The 2012 film on the other hand was obviously filmed in Toronto. the subway at one point is supposed to be the London Underground, but is blatantly the Toronto subway system. | |
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Salt Lake City stood in for Albuquerque (which, ironically, later became a regular locale associated with this trope) in High School Musical. This is referenced in the High School Musical: The Musical: The Series spinoff, a Recursive Canon in which HSM is a fictional film series. The show is set in the same city where the films were shot, meaning Salt Lake City. | |
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Romania stands in for Merrie Old England in the Made-for-TV Movie Princess of Thieves. | |
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Ghosts (US) is set in upstate New York, but filmed in Montreal. | |
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"St. Louis, Missouri" in the Supernatural episode "Skin" looks very Canadian, with pine trees along the highway that is supposedly outside St. Louis (which does have some pine trees, but the deciduous trees dominate them, since their numbers are far more vast). Also, with "Home", Kansas isn't nearly that leafy, and Cape Girardeau is not the racist small town that "Route 666" would have you believe—it's actually a college town, since Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) is in Cape Girardeau. | |
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Power Rangers: Every season from Ninja Storm to Cosmic Fury was filmed in New Zealand, in spite of being set in various U.S. localities, including California, a domed city and a worldwide treasure hunt. Aside from some amusing locational irregularities (such as using footage of New Zealand's lush grassy landscapes and identifying it as being the Everglades), this resulted, especially in the Disney seasons, in Australian and New Zealander actors playing Americans. They've thrown in a few gags, like Piggy getting teleported there and landing in the middle of a herd of sheep. | |
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie was filmed entirely in Australia, though the series at the time was set in California. | |
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Howling II: Stirba: Werewolf Bitch: The scenes set in Transylvania are filmed in Czechoslovakia. | |
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Muppets from Space has Wilmington, North Carolina standing in for what is presumed to be Northeastern coastal suburbia. | |
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Scream VI is set in New York and filmed in Montreal. | |
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Monty Python's Life of Brian was set in Judea (modern Israel/Palestine) but filmed in Tunisia, around 2000 miles away on a different continent. | |
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Big Game, despite being made by Finns, has Bavaria doubling for Finland, as it has plot-important mountains and woodlands real-life Finland notoriously lacks. | |
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Zig-zagged for Free Willy. While the scenes depicting Willy were mostly shot at Reino Aventura (now Six Flags Mexico) in Mexico City, where Keiko, the orca that played Willy, was in captivity at the time, everything else was shot on location in Oregon and Washington, the former state being where the film is set. | |
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Y Gwyll is set in in and around Aberystwyth and filmed entirely in Mid-Wales in and around Aberystwyth. | |
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Elementary is another show both set and filmed in New York City, though it's not a complete aversion— for reasons that even Lucy Liu herself found confusing, Harlem is used to represent Brooklyn. | |
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The Martian was (obviously) not filmed on Mars, but in Wadi Rum, Jordan, a red-colored desert on Earth. | |
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Forever Knight was both shot and set in Toronto. | |
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Mean Girls is set in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, but was mostly shot in Toronto. | |
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World of Warcraft had an official patch trailer depicting Kel'thuzad journeying to Northrend and joining the Scourge. However the trailer was made back in the vanilla version of the game, where Northrend hadn't been programmed into the game yet. So they had Kel'thuzad wander around Winterspring instead. | |
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In a sort of inversion, Mandy (2018) is set in California but has been shot in Belgium. | |
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North Carolina was the primary filming location in Iron Man 3; the Malibu and Miami scenes were all shot in the Wilmington area, while the Rose Hill, Tennessee scenes were shot in the Charlotte area, mostly in Mooresville. | |
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Red (2010) had Toronto double for many major cities (such as New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Cleveland) while New Orleans doubled for several cities as well (such as Kansas City). Stanton's speech and the ensuing raid are all shot in various parts of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto; Victoria's limo even lets her out in front of Toronto's Union Station. In the 2003 Bollywood film Kal Ho Na Ho the majority of the film is set in New York, specifically in Brooklyn. But the majority of the sequences were filmed in Toronto, poorly albeit, since Canadian flags, signs, and Ontario license plates can be visible. It might annoy New Yorkers, eagle eyed film enthusiasts and those who expect doubling to be done correctly. However, the Indian audiences did not notice this as California Doubling is not a commonly used concept in Indian film and media. |
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Surprisingly not the case in Red Heat - Budapest played Moscow for most of the movie, but the footage behind the opening (contains nudity and violence; credits start at 4:39) and closing credits (from the 4:21 mark) really was shot there. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers again. Filming for the movie was scheduled to finish during a break mid-Season 2, but difficulties left the Ranger cast down under longer than expected. To prevent delays for Season 2, their scenes in two three-parters ("The Wedding" and "Return of the Green Ranger") were filmed in Australia. Note, though, that "The Wedding" has a sub-plot with a school trip to Australia (which allowed for scenes making more extensive use of the area), whereas "Return of the Green Ranger" takes place in Angel Grove, California. | |
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Moonfall is primarily set across many United States locations, but the COVID-19 pandemic prevented location shooting, so all was done in Montreal, mostly in soundstages. | |
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As noted above, RoboCop: The Series and later, RoboCop: Prime Directives were set in Detroit like the movies they're based on, but were filmed in Toronto. Then again, none of the movies were actually filmed in Detroit, either. | |
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Not only did McCloud, set in New York, do a lot of location filming in the Big Apple (and New Mexico, where our hero was from), but the episode "Night of the Shark," where McCloud went to Australia in pursuit of a criminal, was indeed filmed there. | |
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Thor: The Dark World is also set in England, and shot there - including the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. | |
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Me, Myself & Irene, set in Rhode Island, was at least partially filmed in Vermont. | |
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In X-Men: First Class, the small island near Cuba is actually Georgia's Jekyll Island with some palm trees. | |
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Home Alone: The Holiday Heist is the first Home Alone film to not involve Chicago at all (it's set in Maine) and the first to be filmed in Canada (specifically, Winnipeg). | |
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Zig-zagged with Peter Rabbit: the scenes in London were shot in both London itself and Sydney (e.g. the scene's at Harrods in London were actually shot there, while the scenes in Paddington Station were actually filmed at Sydney Central Station). | |
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Did You Hear About The Morgans? is about a couple who are put into the Witness Protection Program and sent to Wyoming, which is actually New Mexico subbing for Wyoming. I guess they didn't want to be accused of copying. | |
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Nearly all scenes of EuroTrip were filmed in or near Prague. No scene was set in the Czech Republic itself, though Slovakia, which was unified with it as Czechoslovakia until 1993, is featured. | |
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Neither Xena: Warrior Princess or Hercules: The Legendary Journeys were filmed anywhere near Greece. New Zealand, particularly West Auckland, made a passable substitute. New Zealand also doubled for China and Japan in Xena. Not to be mention present-day America in both series ("Yes, Virginia, There Is A Hercules" and "Deja Vu All Over Again"). | |
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The Harlem setting is so integral to the environment of Luke Cage that the majority of shooting was done there too, although some interiors were filmed on sets in Brooklyn. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales has Queensland doubling for the Caribbean. | |
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Dalziel and Pascoe: Based in the books that were set in Yorkshire, but produced by the BBC's Pebble Mill Studios in Birmingham (which did a lot of BBC dramas and Current Affairs in the 90's). As a result various places in the Midlands ended up standing in for Yorkshire towns and cities, and the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire played the part of the Yorkshire Dales, probably because they were only an hour's drive away from Birmingham as opposed to three. | |
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Star Trek (2009) shot its Vulcan scenes in the deserts of Utah | |
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Sicario: Day of the Soldado: is an even more egregious example as scenes which are supposed to take place in Corpus Christi Texas and other areas along the Texas Gulf Coast prominently show desert and mountains. | |
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Eastern Condors: The Vietnam scenes were shot in the Philippines, while the American scenes were shot in Canada. | |
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This trope is played straighter in the Fantastic Beasts films. The first movie was set in New York City, but filmed entirely in England. The second movie likewise recreated Paris in England, with the New York backlot from the first movie revamped into a Parisian backlot. The Secrets of Dumbledore did aerial filming in Vietnam for China but kept up the tradition of using the UK to stand in for the US, Germany, and Bhutan. The climax was originally supposed to take place in Brazil instead of Bhutan and they had planned to travel there to film to avert this but the COVID-19 pandemic stopped them from being able to there film there and delayed production to the winter. They couldn’t recreate the location on the lot so they chose to re-work to Bhutan. | |
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An inversion happened in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, set in Hollywood but aside from some location shooting in LA, it was filmed in London (as the animation director refused to leave there and go to California, fearing bureaucracy from working close to the studio). | |
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Dream Scenario was shot in Toronto, with a US setting. | |
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Irregular Webcomic!, being a photo-based webcomic, often uses as backgrounds photos taken by Morgan-Mar on his vacations. The Cliffhangers theme in particular prominently uses photos of various locations in Germany and Italy when the characters are in Germany and Italy, but the first time the story takes them to Paris was before Morgan-Mar had ever visited Paris, resulting in a lot of backgrounds actually being pictures of his trip to Rome as a stand-in for Paris. | |
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The Columbo episode "Dagger Of The Mind," set in London, also partly-averted it; some of the episode was filmed in Hollywood, but some of it was indeed filmed in London (providing a rare chance to see Bernard Fox actually in the UK!). In fact, one of the British actors had to remain in the US, as he was wanted for tax evasion in the UK. | |
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Dark City. The only real giveaway that the filming took place primarily in a studio near Sydney is the somewhat out of place Australian accent of a young police officer who talks to Detective Bumstead in one scene. Also, the director happens to be from Australia. | |
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A good chunk of Dirty Dancing was shot at the Mountain Lake Hotel near Roanoke. The movie was set in the Catskills in The '60s, but since most of the actual Catskills resorts had shut down (or were in no shape to shoot a movie) by then (1987), another location had to be found. | |
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Stingray (1985) took place in various locations as Ray travelled to help people in need, but it was filmed in Canada, in Calgary and Vancouver. | |
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Die Hard 2, supposedly set at Washington Dulles International Airport, was actually filmed in several different locations in Colorado, Michigan, and California. One scene has McClane in the airport talking on the phone to his wife who is in an approaching plane, and "Pacific Bell" can clearly be read on the payphone he's using. | |
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Walking with Beasts: The first episode, "New Dawn", set in Germany during the Early Eocene, was filmed in the rainforests of Java. The second episode, Whale Killer" set around the coast of the Tethys Sea during the Late Eocene, was filmed in the Chihuahuan Desert for the inland scenes, the Florida Keys for the mangrove scenes. The third episode, "Land of Giants", set in Mongolia during the Late Oligocene, was filmed in the scrublands of Arizona and the Chihuahuan Desert again. The fourth episode, Next of Kin", set in Ethiopia during the Pliocene, largely averts this; it was mostly filmed in Ethiopia, because the region has not changed drastically in the time since the episode is set, although some parts were also in South Africa. The fifth episode, Sabre Tooth, set in the Pleistocene of South America, also averts this; it was filmed in the cerrados of Brazil, because, again, the region was not that different then as it is now. The sixth episode, "Mammoth Journey", set in Europe during the Quaternary, was filmed in the snowy taiga of Yukon (this location was revisited for the second Prehistoric Park episode, also set in Europe during the ice age). |
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Blue Bloods is set and filmed in New York City. | |
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Jack Taylor is set in Galway and all the outdoor locations are filmed in Galway. On the other hand, all interior shots are filmed in Ardmore Studios in Bray (just south of Dublin, on the east coast) and in Bremen in Germany. | |
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Raccoon City in the 2nd and 3rd games of the Resident Evil franchise is supposed to be designed after a typical small town in the United States, but in the games, you can see most of the streets are too narrow to allow traffic to go in both directions and there are a ton of alleyways; narrow streets and numerous alleys is something that is common in Japan and Capcom, the creators of Resident Evil, is located in Japan. The remake of the second game fixes the issue by making Raccoon City an actual city instead of a large town and the streets accommodate several lanes of traffic. Capcom also produces the Ace Attorney franchise, whose games are supposed to take place in the United Statesnote Los Angeles, specifically, which ironically means California is the one being doubled for this time, yet many locations are based on Japanese structures and cultures and the court system is based more off of the Japanese courts than American courts. It also doesn't help that the Japanese version of the games are written to take place directly in Japan, which makes many of the settings and characters fit better. According to Word of God, the first game was made with localization in mind while the sequels didn't have any immediate plans to be localized, which is why they have a lot of Japanese cultural references and why the localized versions fall into the trope. One of the localizers explained that the reason the the localized games have so much Japanese references and cultures is due the settings taking place in an alternate timeline where anti-Japanese laws in the United States never existed, allowing Japanese citizens to live and flourish in California. |
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Inverted in Point Break (1991), where the scenes set in Australia were actually filmed in Oregon. | |
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Except for a couple of establishing shots, most scenes set in California or Nevada in The Godfather were filmed in New York. | |
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In Deep Impact, the traffic jam of people leaving Virginia Beach was actually shot on a newly-built freeway note specifically VA 234/Prince William Parkway between VA 28 and I-66 in Manassas, 150 miles away. The terrain is the giveaway; Virginia Beach is on the Atlantic Plain and almost perfectly flat, while Manassas (like most of the DC area north and west of town) is on the not-so-flat Appalachian Piedmont. | |
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Troy: Fall of a City takes place in Ancient Greece and was filmed in South Africa. | |
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Double subverted in We Were Soldiers. Northern California is made to stand in for the Ia Drang Valley... which in turn looks suspiciously◊ like◊ northern California. | |
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Sons of Anarchy is filmed in central California, and actually takes place there. While the town of Charming is up closer to Stockton and San Francisco, however, the show has occasionally doubled in LA County neighborhoods, with Charming's "main street" looking a lot like parts of Tujunga. | |
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The James Bond series has several "Other country doubling": Most subaquatic scenes since Thunderball were shot in The Bahamas (doubling for the Adriatic, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas). On Her Majesty's Secret Service features Piz Gloria. A mountain that is set near St. Moritz, Switzerland in the novel. However, in the film, the mountain and surrounding areas are in the Bernese Oberland (which is in the same country), with several large signs naming places like "Murren", "Vengen", "Lauterbrunnen" and "Schilthornbahn". Additionally, the bobsled run (now a ski run) that Bond chases Blofeld down near the end is a few miles away from the real Piz Gloria, so jumping out of the building and rolling down the hill to end up at it is impossible. Later in the film, Tracy states that the closest post office to them is in Feldkirch, Austria. However, she takes him to a phone booth in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland instead. it is unknown if they are meant to be in Feldkirch by this point due to James ultimately using the phone booth rather than a post office, as well as the fact that the village is lined by several very obvious Swiss flags that could easily have been removed for filming. Portugal is also used for filming in the opening and closing scenes. However, due to the Corsican Marc-Ange Draco being located here, as well as the fact that everyone in the hotel speaks French, it seems to be standing in for Corsica. Diamonds Are Forever mostly averts this as a good chunk of it was actually filmed in Las Vegas. However the scene where Bond is riding the elevator to Whyte's penthouse was filmed in Pinewood Studios. And the first scene with Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd which took place in the South African desert was shot within the Vegas city limits. In The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga's island is located within Chinese territorial waters, but is filmed on an island in the Phang Nga Bay off the coast of Thailand, on the opposite side of the Malay Straits. Obviously, it would have been impossible to film in Communist China in 1974, let alone one where they're depicted working with a foreign assassin. Moonraker has an amusing case, where to justify French locations in what is said to be California, they say Hugo Drax purchased a castle in France and moved it brick by brick to his estate. In GoldenEye, Cuba is actually Puerto Rico, the Russian dam from the opening is in Switzerland, and many St. Petersburg externals are in London. The train scenes were filmed on the Nene Valley Railway in Cambridgeshire, also the scene of filming for the circus train scene in Octopussy. Tomorrow Never Dies is partially set in Vietnam, but given the Vietnamese authorities vetoed shortly before filming, the crew actually filmed in Thailand (some scenes even denounce the backgrounds are the same as in The Man with the Golden Gun). The car chase in For Your Eyes Only is shot in Corfu, Greece, but the locals that help Bond flip his car the right way up can be heard speaking Spanish, and Bond says "Por favor" to ask them for help with getting it started. Similarly, the "warehouse" that Bond chases Locque through is shot in the Old Fortress, Corfu, though it is doubling for Albania. Funnily enough, the real Albania is so close by that you can see it from the fortress. Die Another Day: North Korea and Cuba are communist nations who understandably wouldn't want to be involved with the Cold Warrior, so they used Hawaii and Cornwall for the former and Spain for the latter. In Casino Royale, Madagascar is the Bahamas, and Montenegro is the Czech Republic. No Time to Die: Bond goes to Santiago de Cuba at one point. No filming for these scenes took place in Cuba, rather in Jamaica and at Pinewood Studios. The filming of the climax on the Big Bad's island (implied to be one of the Kuril Islands, claimed by both Russia and Japan) took place on the Faroe Islands, northwest of the UK. |
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Ticket to Paradise, set in Bali, was actually filmed in Queensland. | |
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Guyana: Crime of the Century: The scenes taking place in the settlement of Johnsontown, Guyana were filmed in Mexico instead of Guyana proper. | |
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Almost all of Degrassi is set in Toronto; however, when characters travel away from home, most of those scenes are shot in Toronto as well. | |
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In Captain America: Civil War, Berlin, Germany stands in for Bucharest, Romania and Vienna, Austria. | |
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Some movies of the same genre as the Dollars Trilogy were filmed (link in Spanish) in other places of Spain as the provinces of Madrid and Burgos as much if not more than in AlmerÃa. | |
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The Americans, largely set in the Washington, D.C., area, is shot in New York City, which also doubles for Philadelphia and the Soviet Union in various episodes. | |
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The chase scene in Spider-Man 3 where Spider-Man confronts Sandman as he's trying to hijack an armored car was done in Cleveland. | |
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The Handmaid's Tale: The story is set in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but filmed in Toronto and Cambridge. In the scene of the pre-Gilead protest, the demonstrators march past the distinctive Toronto City Hall. | |
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In Black Panther, the scenes in Oakland were shot in Atlanta, along with some scenes taking place in London and South Korea. Atlanta City Hall doubles for the United Nations building. The High Museum of Art doubles for the "Museum of Great Britain". | |
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The Russia scenes in Black Widow (2021) were filmed in the UK. | |
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Parts of The Wolverine set in Japan and Canada were filmed in and around Sydney, Australia. | |
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Lone Survivor has New Mexico doubling for Afghanistan. | |
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The Kissing Booth and its sequels are set in Los Angeles, but were mostly shot in Cape Town (although some scenes were shot in LA). | |
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Moon Knight (2022) starts in London and happens primarily in Egypt, but was filmed in Hungary, Slovenia and Jordan. | |
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Montreal and Vieux Québec also subbed for Paris and Murmansk in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and for Marseille and Montrichard in Catch Me If You Can. | |
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What Lies Beneath was both set and filmed in Vermont. | |
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Trauma Center takes places in Angles Bay, a fictional city in California, and also takes place in Great Brittan, Europe. Despite the what the game tells you about the locations, it's clear that the "California" in game is actually Japan due to the blatant Japanese signage in one of the city backgrounds and the narrow alleys and small houses in another background. The map showing Angeles Bay also looks more like Japanese topography than California topography due to the very vast mountain ranges, something that California does not have much of by comparison. Ditto for the map showing Great Brittan that looks more like California (or at least a general American coastline) than Great Brittan. All the above is due to the Japanese version of the game actually taking places in Japan while the second area takes place in the United States instead of Europe. The art assets wasn't changed during localization. | |
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Mad Max: Fury Road is set in the Australian Outback but was filmed in the southwestern African country of Namibia. Filming was supposed to take place in Australia but the winter before production was extremely rainy and made the landscape too lush for the dystopian setting so production was moved. | |
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Despite 300 being set in Ancient Greece, the movie itself was filmed inside what was the Icestorm Studios in Montreal. | |
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Welcome to Flatch is set in Ohio, but is filmed in Burgaw, North Carolina, near Wilmington. | |
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Probably one of the most notable aversions for live televisions was Walker, Texas Ranger, which was actually shot in Texas, particularly in Dallas where the majority of the show is set. However, when the rangers went to other locations, like Houston, they shot there as well. The show paid special attention to make sure you knew they were actually using Texas by having many shots of the Dallas skyline. Many scenes even used locals as extra's or one-liners. | |
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In The Man with the Golden Gun, Scaramanga's island is located within Chinese territorial waters, but is filmed on an island in the Phang Nga Bay off the coast of Thailand, on the opposite side of the Malay Straits. Obviously, it would have been impossible to film in Communist China in 1974, let alone one where they're depicted working with a foreign assassin. | |
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Dublin, which has neither skyscrapers nor (surviving) Tudor buildings, has pretended to be New York for the recent film version of The Honeymooners and 16th century England for numerous episodes of The Tudors. In films Dublin has also doubled for Liverpool (Educating Rita and An Awfully Big Adventure), London (Peaches) and Boston (Far and Away). | |
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Harry Potter: Hogwarts is meant to be located in Scotland, but the movies were filmed almost entirely in England external shots of Hogwarts being mostly Alnwick Castle (only 45 mins drive from the border admittedly but still England). Hogwarts environs were sometimes filmed on location in Scotland and sometimes not. The Forbidden Forest and the Black Lake are located within short distances of each other in-universe, but they were filmed in Buckinghamshire and Highland respectively. Sections of the sixth film that take place in England were filmed in Norway and Western Ireland. This trope is played straighter in the Fantastic Beasts films. The first movie was set in New York City, but filmed entirely in England. The second movie likewise recreated Paris in England, with the New York backlot from the first movie revamped into a Parisian backlot. The Secrets of Dumbledore did aerial filming in Vietnam for China but kept up the tradition of using the UK to stand in for the US, Germany, and Bhutan. The climax was originally supposed to take place in Brazil instead of Bhutan and they had planned to travel there to film to avert this but the COVID-19 pandemic stopped them from being able to there film there and delayed production to the winter. They couldn’t recreate the location on the lot so they chose to re-work to Bhutan. |
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For Captain America: The First Avenger, the Brooklyn scenes were shot in Manchester and Liverpool. Justified as the movie is set at the height of World War II, and both cities include pre-war architecture that resembled Brooklyn at this time. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, the scenes set in the fictional European nation of Sokovia were filmed in London. Averted for several other cities like Seoul, South Korea and Johannesburg, South Africa, which were shot on-location. Avengers: Endgame has Scotland (which appeared as itself in Avengers: Infinity War) doubling for the Jersey-located Camp Lehigh, the Norway settlement New Asgard, and a brief shot of New York City. | |
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Ghost in the Shell (2017) was partly filmed in Wellington, New Zealand's capital city, which doubled as Hong Kong. | |
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Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain is set is Ireland but was shot in Quebec. It more or less works, especially as there is supposed to be a dreamlike quality to the landscape, but they failed to secure any right-hand drive vehicles. | |
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The Summer I Turned Pretty: The beach house is in Cousins, Massachusetts, while in the second season Conrad attends Brown University, which is located in Providence, Rhode Island, but both are filmed in North Carolina. | |
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The outside shots of New York in Velvet Goldmine are clearly filmed in London, given that everybody is driving on the left and red double decker buses are driving around with advertisements for Les Misérables. | |
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The pilot for The Lying Game was filmed on location in New Mexico; production for the series shifted to Texas. The series is set mainly in Phoenix and Las Vegas (with stops in Los Angeles). | |
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Beneath Hill 60 was filmed largely outside Townsville, Queensland; including both the scenes set in the area, and the scenes set in the trenches of WW1 Europe. | |
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Designated Survivor is set in Washington, D.C. but filmed in Toronto. | |
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In the remake of Hairspray, the movie was set in Baltimore, but was filmed in Toronto. Vintage Toronto streetcars were prominent in the "Good Morning, Baltimore" opening sequence. | |
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The Art of the Steal: The scenes set in Warsaw were actually shot in Budapest. Unfornately, several Budapest landmarks and Romanian flags are clearly visible in these scenes. Bucharest also briefly doubles for Amsterdam, but this scene is so brief that it could have been in any European city. | |
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Jumping the Broom has Nova Scotia, Canada doubling as Martha's Vineyard. | |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight was in part shot in Toronto - you can see the Honest Ed's sign in the background in one scene. | |
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The Marvel Cinematic Universe Netflix shows were largely set and filmed within New York City. This was so notable (especially for the MCU) that the city actually held a huge press conference to announce its partnership with Marvel. Daredevil, while set in Hell's Kitchen, largely filmed in neighborhoods around northern Brooklyn and southwest Queens with architecture similar to Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and 1980s. This is because the real life Hell's Kitchen gentrified in the 2000s, while the comics the show uses as source material depict the neighborhood as overrun with violent crime. The in-universe explanation for any discrepancies is that Hell's Kitchen took major damage during the Chitauri invasion in The Avengers and is still undergoing reconstruction. The Harlem setting is so integral to the environment of Luke Cage that the majority of shooting was done there too, although some interiors were filmed on sets in Brooklyn. |
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Lampshaded in Stephen King and Peter Straub's The Talisman. Given Jack Sawyer's experiences in Hollywood, as well as his mother's reputation as Lily "Queen of the B's" Cavanaugh, Jack spots similarities between New England and the ominous Point Venuti in Northern California, remembering that if any scenes on the beach needed to be filmed in the Northeast climate called for in the former, places like the latter would be employed. | |
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The Streets of San Francisco was set and filmed in that city, and the opening AND closing credits did everything they could to remind us of that (the end credits for each episode are displayed in front of a helicopter shot going away from the Golden Gate Bridge). That said, occasionally an episode has the odd scene set elsewhere ("Flags Of Terror" has its first scene in Japan, and "Till Death Do Us Part" begins in New Jersey and the Midwest before arriving in San Francisco). | |
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Thor: Ragnarok has a few scenes set in New York City, which were mostly filmed in Brisbane. Thor: Love and Thunder was also filmed in Australia, with the Earth location this time being the Norwegian location of New Asgard (which in its previous appearance was filmed in Scotland). | |
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American Ultra takes place in multiple locations around the world, but was filmed in and around New Orleans. | |
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X-Men Film Series: X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Paris scenes were filmed in Old Montreal, and parts of the Pentagon (like the area where we see visitors touring the building, and when Charles and Logan are walking alone in a basement corridor) are from the Arts Building at McGill University. The Moscow bunker is located beneath the rafters of The Big O (the informal name of Montreal's Olympic Stadium). Mystique jumped out of the window of the mayor's office at Montreal City Hall. X-Men: Apocalypse: The exterior of John Abbott College (located in a suburb of Montreal) was the stand-in for the Auschwitz concentration camp. The steel mill factory where Erik works is in Saint-Ours, a town about 75 km from Montreal. The East Berlin fight club venue is the Corona Theatre in Old Montreal. |
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A bizarre inversion in Youth in Revolt. The film is set in various California locations — Oakland, Clearlake, Berkeley, Ukiah, etc. — but it was filmed entirely in Michigan, with some reshoots in Louisiana. Obviously, Michigan looks nothing like California, though it could be said that the exact setting of the story is unimportant. | |
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Farscape filmed entirely in Australia, including Earth scenes that were supposed to be located on the Florida Space Coast. For all that the beaches are decidedly different, upper middle class tract housing can evidently be pretty similar in both places. Specifically: IASA's HQ shown in "Won't Get Fooled Again" was shot in and around Sydney Olympic Park, in Homebush (a 5min drive from the studio where seasons 2-4 were shot) - ANZ stadium doubles as a launch pad (CGI rocket stuck in the middle of it) and the distinct spiral building seen several times in the background is actually part of the car park near the Acer Arena. The gardens in the "Look At The Princess" trilogy were actually the Japanese gardens in Auburn. The beach in "Scratch & Sniff" was in Maroubra. The dock often seen in Crichton's dream sequences was actually right outside the industrial park in Homebush where seasons 2-4 were shot. The old gun emplacement at Middle Head doubled for several alien military encampments and ancient ruins. |
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Lampshaded fictional aversion in Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. In the pilot episode Danny fails a drug test and cannot make a movie in California, and Matt suggests filming in Vancouver. Danny refuses, saying that "Vancouver doesn't look like anything, it doesn't even look like Vancouver. It looks like Boston, California." | |
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Several scenes in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York that take place in New York were actually shot in Chicago. | |
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Queen of Katwe: Scenes set in Russia were filmed in Johannesburg, South Africa. | |
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Gettysburg was shot in the battlefield national park, and every battle sequence filmed was done where it had taken place in 1863, with the exception of Little Round Top. (There wasn't enough room for all the actors, crew, and equipment, so they shot the scenes on Big Round Top instead.) | |
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In a rather localized take, The Expendables have their base of operations in New Orleans but scenes set there were principally filmed in downtown Baton Rouge. Which they could have gotten away with pretty easily had they kept the Louisiana State Capitol building from appearing in a major establishing shot. | |
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Averted in Paper Moon - Both interior and exterior shots were filmed on location in central Kansas and western Missouri. | |
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In Maverick, the climactic poker game is set on a riverboat steaming the Mississippi River south of St. Louis. Anyone familiar with the area knows that the exterior scenes of the riverboat were shot somewhere very, very different from the Mississippi River south of St. Louis (probably on a river in the Pacific Northwest). Not to mention the bizarre detour through Yosemite National Park. Seriously, the scene takes place right under Half Dome. Yosemite National Park also stood in for the Himalayas in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. |
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Dick Wolf's Chicago tetralogy of shows (Chicago Fire, Chicago P.D., Chicago Med, and Chicago Justice) are all set and filmed in Chicago. That said, there are still some liberties: e.g., the police station used for P.D. is actually used for the University of Illinois at Chicago Police, not the Chicago Police Department; although it was used by the CPD as the 7th District Police Station prior to 1998. | |
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The Walking Dead is set and filmed within Georgia and scenes set in Atlanta were filmed in the city proper; however, there are cases of Television Geography for locations in other parts of the state. The Cobb Energy Centre doubles as the CDC headquarters (which is in DeKalb County), and the town of Senoia doubles for the town of Woodburynote However, the real Woodbury is located about 25 miles (40 km) south of Senoia. It has since begun meeting the trope, as it continues to be filmed in Georgia despite now being set in Virginia. | |
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One of the "Discoverers" sketches in That Mitchell and Webb Look has the captain and his first mate land on the shores of Australia... given the nature of the show, the sheer flagrancy of the doubling makes it all the funnier when you have one of the most iconically British landmarks in the background, viz, the cliffs of Dover. | |
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A portion of season 3 of Outlander, which primarily takes place in the US, was filmed in South Africa. | |
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Tropic Thunder was shot almost entirely in Hawaii, despite being set in Vietnam (or at least around the South-East Asian area). It's just a location playing a location disguised as another location. |
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Shining Time Station and The Noddy Shop are both set in the United States, but were both filmed in Canada. | |
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Toronto stands in for Boston a few times in Good Will Hunting, but it was shot primarily in Massachusetts, and most of the Toronto scenes were interiors (U of T dorm rooms, local bars, the novelty shop etc). | |
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In the first episode of The Event, Sean and Leila's "Caribbean" cruise actually took place off the coast of Hawaii. | |
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Mass Effect 3 situates the Alliance capital in a Vancouver/Seattle megalopolis and is deliberately modelled after the area, just updating it with bigger skyscrapers more appropriate for its 22nd-century setting. | |
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A rare, pre-glasnost exception is a 1976 adaptation of The Blue Bird, which was the first ever International Coproduction between the U.S. and Soviet Union. The movie was filmed in English, on location in Moscow and Leningrad (present-day St. Petersburg). It ended up being a Troubled Production due to the language and culture barriers, in addition to Jane Fonda annoying the Russian crew by following them around and constantly talking about communism. | |
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Blue Mountain State was filmed in Montreal but takes place in an unspecified region of the United States. | |
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X-Men: Days of Future Past: The Paris scenes were filmed in Old Montreal, and parts of the Pentagon (like the area where we see visitors touring the building, and when Charles and Logan are walking alone in a basement corridor) are from the Arts Building at McGill University. The Moscow bunker is located beneath the rafters of The Big O (the informal name of Montreal's Olympic Stadium). Mystique jumped out of the window of the mayor's office at Montreal City Hall. | |
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Major portions of The Day After Tomorrow were filmed in Montreal despite taking place in multiple locations around the world. Some portions were shot in Toronto and Los Angeles, though. | |
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Both the 1949 and 1980 movie versions of The Blue Lagoon were partially shot in Fiji, where it doubled as the remote island depicted in the book. Nevertheless, the majority of both films were filmed in studio settings. Specifically, the 1949 movie included scenes shot at the Pinewood Studios, while the 1980 rendition featured segments filmed at the Warner Bros. Burbank Studios. | |
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The Really Loud House and its Halloween special, A Really Haunted Loud House, have Albuquerque double for the fictional Royal Woods, Michigan. | |
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Fahrenheit 451 (2018) was filmed in Toronto and Hamilton while set in Cleveland. One might forgive the city's skyline being completely different given the movie's dystopian setting, except Lake Erie is completely absent. On the other hand, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that Cleveland's subway map is based on the city's actual light rail system. | |
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Arctic is set in, well, the Arctic, but it was shot in Iceland. | |
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The Black Demon takes place in an oil rig off the shore of Mexico. Except the Dominican Republic doubled for Mexico. Even the scenes shot in a water tank were filmed in a Dominican studio. | |
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The Musketeers, being a version of The Three Musketeers, takes place in France but was filmed in the Czech Republic. | |
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Halt and Catch Fire is set in the Silicon Prairie of the DFW Metroplex but is filmed in Atlanta. AMC considered filming the series in North Texas; however, AMC already had crew in place in Atlanta for The Walking Dead, and Georgia has more generous tax breaks for TV/film production than Texas. Season 3 sees a shift in setting from Dallas to San Francisco; however, filming stayed primarily in the Atlanta area, although a scene with Joe jogging near the Golden Gate Bridge was shot on location there. | |
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The two Grown Ups movies, which supposedly take place in upstate New York, were filmed in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Adam Sandler has apparently grown fond of the town, as he later shot Hubie Halloween there, despite the film taking place in Salem. | |
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The Red Green Show, set in the Muskoka area of Ontario, was shot in the Greater Toronto Area (the rural areas near Hamilton certainly don't look like northern Ontario). Averted for a few scenes between the third and sixth seasons that were actually filmed in the Muskokas. | |
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The Sea of Trees is set in Japan within the infamous suicide forest at the base of Mt. Fuji, but was filmed in the Purgatory Chasm State Reservation and other locations in Massachusetts. | |
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Battle: Los Angeles was set in Los Angeles, as per the title, but was filmed in Shreveport and Baton Rouge. | |
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That said, it's still played straight in both Breaking Bad and its prequel spinoff Better Call Saul, where Albuquerque also doubles for Houston, Philadelphia, Hanover Germany, and suburban Chicago. | |
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service features Piz Gloria. A mountain that is set near St. Moritz, Switzerland in the novel. However, in the film, the mountain and surrounding areas are in the Bernese Oberland (which is in the same country), with several large signs naming places like "Murren", "Vengen", "Lauterbrunnen" and "Schilthornbahn". Additionally, the bobsled run (now a ski run) that Bond chases Blofeld down near the end is a few miles away from the real Piz Gloria, so jumping out of the building and rolling down the hill to end up at it is impossible. Later in the film, Tracy states that the closest post office to them is in Feldkirch, Austria. However, she takes him to a phone booth in Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland instead. it is unknown if they are meant to be in Feldkirch by this point due to James ultimately using the phone booth rather than a post office, as well as the fact that the village is lined by several very obvious Swiss flags that could easily have been removed for filming. Portugal is also used for filming in the opening and closing scenes. However, due to the Corsican Marc-Ange Draco being located here, as well as the fact that everyone in the hotel speaks French, it seems to be standing in for Corsica. |
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Hap and Leonard takes place in east Texas, but was filmed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. | |
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Scream 4 was filmed in Michigan, despite still taking place in the fictional town of Woodsboro, California. The first three films were all filmed in Los Angeles. | |
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Rules of Engagement has a few scenes set in the fern-filled jungles of Vietnam. The film was shot in Morocco, Virginia, and South Carolina. | |
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The alien planet scenes in Galaxy Quest were filmed in Goblin Valley State Park. | |
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Lethal Weapon 3, which is set in Los Angeles, inverts it with the first scene, the car bomb scene, by filming the outdoor shots for the scene in Orlando, Florida. The building that was destroyed, the ICSI Building, was actually Orlando's old City Hall. They put a Coca-Cola sign on the new City Hall. They also cast the city's mayor at the time, Bill Frederick, as "Policeman who says 'Bravo' after explosion". And the building that was destroyed in The Stinger was located in St. Petersburg, Florida | |
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Sydney stood in for San Francisco in The Invisible Man. | |
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Doc Martin: The fictional Portwenn is played by Cornish village Port Isaac. | |
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Warehouse 13 is filmed in Toronto and the surrounding area, and they barely attempt to hide it. In the third season finale, there is a Valu-Mart which is supposed to be in Elk Ridge, South Dakota. Valu-Mart is a grocery store that doesn't exist outside of Canada at all. Union Station in Toronto doubled for Geneva, Switzerland in the second season premiere as well. Not to mention the first season episode set in Chicago, even though streetcar tracks and a street sign for York Avenue (neither of which exist in Chicago) are visible. There's a later episode with scenes set in Victorian London which is filmed in Toronto's historic Distillery District. This looks fairly authentic, since most buildings in the Distillery District are from the Victorian Era... except for the inclusion of a very (North) American-style street clock on a pole. |
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The miniseries Texas Rising was shot, ironically, in Mexico. Which led to several The Mountains of Illinois moments, among other inaccuracies. | |
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The Return of Sherlock Holmes makes a valiant effort to make 2015 New York look like 1894 London on zero budget. | |
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Due Date: Scenes that are supposed to be in Dallas are obviously in a desert with prominent mountains in the background. | |
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Silver Streak has Toronto standing in for Los Angeles, Kansas City (though the Calgary skyline was used for an establishing shot), and Chicago (because the producers weren't able to find an American train line amenable to having one of their trains going out of control and crashing into a station for the climax). Remarkably, most of this was accomplished in one building - Union Station. | |
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All of the Spanish scenes in Are You Being Served? were filmed on a stage at Elstree Studios. Trevor Bannister recalled: | |
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Defiance (the Daniel Craig Holocaust movie) is mostly shot in Eastern Europe relatively close to the area of Belarus where it's set. However, parts of the movie are also set in rural Manitoba, Canada and local plant life like red willow and Manitoba hardy roses are visible in many shots. Interestingly one of the reasons the region was initially settled by a lot of Eastern European immigrants is that it apparently looked a lot like home to them as well. | |
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Now and Then was set in Indiana, but shot entirely in Georgia in Savannah and Statesboro. | |
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Walking with Monsters: The Early Silurian segment, set in South Wales, was filmed in Arizona during the portion showing the Cephalaspis migration upriver. The Late Devonian segment, set in Pennsylvania, was filmed in Devil's Postpile National Monument, which is near Mammoth Mountain in California. The Late Carboniferous segment, set in Kansas, was filmed in Florida, in swamp forest that was modified in post-production to make it look more prehistoric. The Early Permian segment, set in Germany, was filmed in Inyo National Forest in California, in the bristlecone pine groves. Both the Late Permian segment, set in Siberia, and the Early Triassic segment, set in Antarctica, were filmed on Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, two of the Canary Islands. |
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The Bourne Ultimatum had a scene set in Moscow during the events of The Bourne Supremacy (which was filmed in Moscow during that film). To avoid having to get an entire crew to Moscow again, they created a snowy Moscow in East Berlin, which was mostly rebuilt by Stalin and so looked much like the architecture of Moscow. | |
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Sicario: Scenes in Arizona and parts of rural Mexico are filmed in New Mexico. | |
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Parts of San Andreas are set in California but were filmed in the Lockyer Valley just west of Brisbane, Australia. | |
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Silence is set in Japan but filmed in Taiwan because Japan's landscape has changed drastically from the the 17th century to the 21st. | |
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Flodder in Amerika!: According to the making-of featurette, most outdoor scenes were shot on location in New York City, but the in-door scenes in Mr. Rosenbaum's club were shot in a studio in the Netherlands. Jon Polito was flown in for his part. | |
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Bridge to Terabithia: New Zealand as The Deep South. | |
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Full Metal Jacket has Vietnam played by the (then derelict) London Docklands, and Parris Island played by both Bassingbourn Barracks in Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire, and RAF Swinderby in Swinderby, Linconshire, as well as Epping Forest, Essex. | |
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30 Rock averts this in that it is both set and filmed in New York City. However, anytime a scene is set somewhere else, it is, of course, doubled by a New York location. For instance, in the pilot, there is a flashback of Tracy running down a California freeway on which all the cars have New Jersey plates. The first Season Finale rather pathetically tries to pass off an obviously suburban neighborhood as a hillbilly town. Internal scenes set at NBC Studios on the titular 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Manhattan are actually filmed at Silvercup Studios in Queens. |
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Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye was set in Washington, D.C. but filmed in Toronto. | |
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The Incredible Hulk film (starring Edward Norton) was shot in Toronto, doubling for Harlem, New York. The climactic rumble was shot on a stretch of Yonge Street in Toronto, running from the intersection of Yonge & Dundas to about a block north. The Zanzibar strip club is a dead giveaway, as are the spinning records on the side of Sam the Record Man. | |
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Indiana Jones, which normally played this straight, averted it at least once. That really is Venice in The Last Crusade (well, some of it is anywway). | |
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In Wonderfalls Toronto and environs double for upstate New York. Scenes in which the falls are actually visible are shot on the Canadian side - in some scenes the American Falls are clearly visible on the opposite bank, while the Horseshoe (Canadian) Falls are on the right, not the left. | |
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The jungle scenes in Jungle were shot in Colombia, rather than Bolivia where the events actually happened. Most viewers would be hard-pressed to tell the difference. | |
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The Shallows takes place in Mexico (and briefly in Texas), and was shot in Queensland and New South Wales. | |
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Unlike other series set in Tennessee (Memphis Beat, Hellcats), Nashville is indeed filmed there; while scenes set outside the city usually play this trope straight, in "All Or Nothing With Me" scenes set in Fort Campbell - located on the Tennessee/Kentucky border - were shot on location. | |
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When The Whole Nine Yards started production in Montreal, the script was rewritten to have the story take place in Montreal too. | |
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Many real pubs are used as stand-ins for The World's End's fictional ones, with the World's End itself portrayed by the Gardener's Arms in Letchworth. (However, other "pubs" in the film are actually cinemas, railway stations, etc.) Also, the "World's Oldest Roundabout" in the film really is that. | |
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Being Human (US) is set in Boston, but filmed in Montreal. | |
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The Chosen: Season 1 takes place in 1st century Galilee and culminates in a journey by Jesus and his group to Samaria, but was filmed in and around Pooleville and Weatherford, Texas within the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Season 2 takes place in adjacent regions to Galilee and Samaria, such as Syria and Judea, but was primarily filmed on the LDS Motion Picture Studios South Campus in Elberta, Utah, a site chosen by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because of the surrounding area's similarity to Jerusalem's geography - including hills, plains, cedar trees, and a stream. Creator Dallas Jenkins shared this sentiment, noting the site's similarity to the Holy Land by stating that they could not re-create it anywhere else, adding "you can't even get this in Israel." Season 3 takes place primarily in Capernaum, but was filmed on a purpose-built site in Midlothian, Texas. The site in Midlothian had been chosen because of its similarities with the Middle East in both topography and weather. |
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Eyes Wide Shut, set in Kubrick's birth town, New York City. | |
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One of the most egregious examples was Battle of the Bulge being filmed in Spain - in particular, the flat, arid, sunny, relatively tree-free part. Note that the actual Battle occurred in the Ardennes - which is hilly and heavily forested - during winter. | |
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His first was Lolita, which starts in New Hampshire and later goes on a cross-country journey, without leaving Great Britain. | |
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Glee usually plays this trope straight by filming an Ohio-set show in LA and it shows. You could play a drinking game the number of times a palm tree is in the frame, the characters are wearing too little clothing for the time of year, or when travel times from Lima to other Ohio cities are ridiculously short. The scenes in The Big Applesauce, however, are filmed on location. | |
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Averted on the 60s spy show I Spy which actually filmed the real locations an episode was set in: Hong Kong, Rome, Greece, Mexico, etc (although studio work was also done in Hollywood). | |
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Hung was shot and set in the northern suburbs of Detroit. | |
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Lost features Hawaii Doubling, with the help of CGI backgrounds (primarily from Sydney, Korea, and London). Jack's off-Island scenes in the third season finale were shot on location in Los Angeles, with hospital scenes borrowing sets from Grey's Anatomy. This was the first time the show filmed outside Hawaii. Alan Dale's scenes in the second half of season 4 were actually filmed in London. He was appearing in Spamalot at the time, so he couldn't make it to Hawaii. The crew obviously took advantage of this by having one scene set prominently near Tower Bridge. |
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Averted by NCIS's spinoffs NCIS: Los Angeles and NCIS: New Orleans, both filmed in their respective locations — except when NCIS LA has to go to another country. Fortunately most of those countries have so little vegetation they only need a cold blue/hot orange lighting filter. Similarly, NCIS: Hawaiʻi is not only filmed on Oahu, but they're allowed to film scenes for the field office at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. | |
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Oddly enough, while Monk tended to play this straight by having Los Angeles, Vancouver or Toronto double for San Francisco, there were some notable aversions in the episodes comprising the second half of season 4. Two different foot chases were filmed on location in San Francisco - the first is the one in "Mr. Monk and the Big Reward" where Monk and Natalie are chased to the police station by three bounty hunters seeking to know what Monk knows about a stolen diamond; the second one is the opening to "Mr. Monk Gets Jury Duty" where Captain Stottlemeyer and Lieutenant Disher chase wanted fugitive Miguel Escobar on foot through Chinatown. The MacMillan Museum in "Mr. Monk and the Big Reward" is in Pacific Heights, while a scene in "Mr. Monk and the Captain's Marriage" where Monk and Natalie tail Karen Stottlemeyer was filmed in Union Square. | |
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SCTV was set in the fictitious town of Melonville, but in the early seasons, was filmed/taped in Toronto. By the time NBC picked up the show in 1981, they had moved to Edmonton, Alberta. | |
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Also Turn is filmed in Central Virginia, despite taking place in the Revolutionary-era Northeast (centering on the Long Island town of Setauket, but frequently venturing to New York City, rural Connecticut and New Jersey, and even to Philadelphia for a few episodes). Virginia is basically known for being the filming site of a whole bunch of historical period pieces, regardless of where they actually occurred, mostly because Virginia has good tax breaks and because Virginia has an embarrassment of colonial sites to film at, while the Northeastern sites are frequently covered over by development (try to shoot scenes of Washington's New Jersey camps close to their locations in Morris County and it'll be hard not to accidentally get a McMansion, a modern paved road, or an office park in the background, unless you want to spend extra budget on CGI). | |
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Waco, a miniseries about the stand off with the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, was filmed near Santa Fe, New Mexico. | |
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Red Dawn (1984): The town of Calumet was actually Las Vegas, New Mexico and other scenes were filmed in the surrounding mountains and on the Eastern New Mexico Plains. One memorable scene was filmed at Ghost Ranch. | |
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RoboCop takes place in Detroit, but none of the movies were actually made there. The first was made in Dallas, the second in Houston, and the third in Atlanta. The 2014 remake only has establishing plates shot in Detroit, with primary locations in Toronto. | |
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is set in San Francisco and its surroundings, while being primarily shot in both Louisiana and Vancouver. | |
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A quarry in Cornwall played the planet Magrathea in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981). | |
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Secret Invasion has all of the episode one location filming in the UK (Leeds, Huddersfield and Halifax in West Yorkshire) to double for Moscow. Specifically, the location of the climax is a notable building called the Piece Hall[1] in Halifax. | |
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The Shining, set in Colorado (with exterior shots from Montana and Oregon). | |
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Walking with Dinosaurs: The first episode, "New Blood", set in Arizona during the Late Triassic, was filmed in the arid scrubland of New Caledonia. The second episode, "Time of Titans", set in Colorado during the Late Jurassic, was mostly filmed in the redwood forests of California, while some parts were in Chile and Tasmania. The third episode, "Cruel Sea", set in England during the Late Jurassic, was mostly filmed in the Bahamas, while the beach scenes were in New Caledonia. The fourth episode, "Giant of the Skies", set in North America, Brazil, and England during the Early Cretaceous, and the fifth episode, "Spirits of the Ice Forest", set in Antarctica during the Mid Cretaceous, were both filmed in various parts of New Zealand and Tasmania. The last episode, "Death of a Dynasty", set in Montana during the Late Cretaceous, was filmed at ConguillÃo National Park in Chile. This location was revisited for the first Prehistoric Park episode, which was set in the same time and place. |
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Midsommar is set in Sweden but was filmed outside of Budapest, Hungary. | |
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Patton was filmed in Spain, doubling for Tunisia, Sicily, and Belgium. | |
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Blade II never hides the fact that it's set and filmed in Prague. | |
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The background for a room in Alice in Wonderland was used for both an undisclosed location in Eastern Europe and a hotel room in London, England. | |
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While Gossip Girl normally averts this trope, there are a few exceptions: New York State played Connecticut in "New Haven Can Wait" and "The Townie", and Europe in "The Return Of The Ring" (for the ending in Monte Carlo) and "Gone Maybe Gone" (for the pre-credit scenes in Monte Carlo and Italy). | |
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Spy Game had segments set in Beirut and Vietnam which were both filmed in Morocco. Likewise, Budapest stood in for Berlin, and Oxford, England became Suzhou, China. | |
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The Amazing Spider-Man downplays this, but doesn't fully avert it in that a lot of scenes are filmed in Los Angeles, though some scenes were filmed in New York. The Amazing Spider-Man 2, however, is notably the first film in the franchise to be filmed entirely in New York City and the surrounding areas; making it the largest production to be filmed in the city. |
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What a Girl Wants was filmed entirely in Britain, except for the flashback in Morocco. Yes, Britain stood in for America in the bookend scenes. Amanda Bynes's home in Chinatown, New York was really Borough Market in London. | |
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Crossroads (2002) is mostly set during a road trip across the southern U.S., but was mostly filmed in Louisiana (the film's star Britney Spears hails from the state). Averted with some parts of the film, which actually take place in Louisiana. | |
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Indiana Jones does this a lot. Egypt from Raiders of the Lost Ark was really Tunisia, the primary shooting location for Tatooine in the Star Wars original trilogy (the canyon where Indy threatens Belloq is the same location where R2-D2 was taken by Jawas in A New Hope). Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is set in India, but shot in Sri Lanka, due to both the locations being very apart in India (but close to each other in the island) and the Indian government getting offended by their portrayal. The first act of Temple of Doom, set in 1935 Shanghai, was filmed in Macau. | |
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Under Suspicion (2000), set in Puerto Rico, was entirely filmed there - although given most of the movie takes place indoors the producers (including stars Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman) could have just played this trope straight! | |
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Need a city that looks like a major German city before (or during) World War II? There's Görlitznote The Easternmost city of Germany, about one hour from Dresden and two hours from Berlin. It contains a pretty unique assembly of almost all architectural styles up to the war era and was left untouched by the war itself. Both German and big budget Hollywood productions (e.g. Valkyrie) have shot there with Görlitz standing in for Berlin quite a lot. Locals have taken to calling it Görliwood, naturally. | |
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In an episode of Blindspot the New-York-based FBI agents make a quick visit to the CDC headquarters. where they learn of a potential outbreak in "nearby" New York Harbor. The CDC headquarters is actually in Atlanta. (For once, this isn't fake scenery but a faked-out detail in the script). | |
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The snowy scenes in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince were actually filmed in Norway. This includes the characters walking to and from Hogsmeade as well as the Hogwarts Express traveling across the snowy countryside. This is the only time the Harry Potter movies have filmed outside of the U.K. and Ireland. | |
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Speaking of Malta, it was used for Rome (well, the Colosseum) in Gladiator. Additionally, a forest in England was used for the opening battle in Germania and Maximus' first gladiator battles were fought in Morocco. | |
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The two German-produced The Three Investigators movies, The Three Investigators and the Secret of Skeleton Island and The Three Investigators and the Secret of Terror Castle, had California be played by South Africa. This trope was partially averted in the first movie, however, most of which is indeed set in or off the coast of South Africa. | |
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The film Dog Soldiers featured Luxembourg doubling for the Highlands of Scotland. | |
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The Italian city of Matera has stood in for Jerusalem in countless biblical films or similar stories — mainly for political and security reasons, but also due to its ramparts. Notable examples of Matera playing Jerusalem include The Gospel According to St. Matthew and Ben-Hur (2016). | |
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The Gospel According to St. Matthew | hasFeature |
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Serena is set in the Smoky Mountains, but was filmed in the Czech Republic. | |
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The Wind and the Lion was filmed in Spain, with Spanish locations being used to portray the Moroccan desert, Tangier, Washington, D.C., Oyster Bay, Long island, and Yellowstone National Park. Railroad buffs will notice some obviously European railroad cars in the background when Theodore Roosevelt is giving a whistle-stop speech; otherwise, it's a pretty convincing job. | |
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Sniper was set in Central America, but much of it was shot in Northern Queensland; the lost hotel was Paronella park and the rail insertion scene was filmed on the Cairns-Kuranda Railway, which looks rather ridiculous if you think about it, as the Panama Railroad seen in the film was built to Old Russian (5') gauge at the time, and was since rebuilt to Standard Gauge (4' 8 1/2"), while the Queensland Government Railways vehicles the characters de-train from were, and would always have been, Cape gauge (3'6"). | |
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Daredevil, while set in Hell's Kitchen, largely filmed in neighborhoods around northern Brooklyn and southwest Queens with architecture similar to Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and 1980s. This is because the real life Hell's Kitchen gentrified in the 2000s, while the comics the show uses as source material depict the neighborhood as overrun with violent crime. The in-universe explanation for any discrepancies is that Hell's Kitchen took major damage during the Chitauri invasion in The Avengers and is still undergoing reconstruction. | |
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Daredevil (2015) | hasFeature |
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In Interstellar, the unspecified countryside of the US Midwest was shot mostly in southern Alberta and other neighbouring Canadian prairie provinces. Iceland's glaciers, highlands and coastal shallows were used for filming the different environments of the three extrasolar planets visited during the course of the storyline. | |
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Interstellar | hasFeature |
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The 2009 remake of The Last House on the Left was shot in South Africa. | |
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Necessary Roughness is set in Long Island, New York but filmed in Atlanta; the Georgia Dome, the Falcons' then-home stadium, served as the stadium for the New York Hawks. | |
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Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada doubling for various locations, with the long-abandoned Six Flags New Orleans portraying an amusement park. | |
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians | hasFeature |
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Edge of Tomorrow was filmed in the UK and does start there, but a majority of the film is actually set in the mainland of Western Europe, mostly France (the production did want to film on location in Normandy, but the studio preferred a beach built on a soundstage). | |
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Prague and some other parts of the Czech Republic apparently also stood in for Paris and France in general in Les Misérables (1998). | |
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North Carolina stands in for eastern Long Island in Weekend at Bernie's. | |
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Weekend at Bernie's | hasFeature |
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Hell or High Water: One of many films where New Mexico doubles for Texas. | |
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Sort of averted in the Law & Order franchise, all of which are set in and filmed in New York City (and Los Angeles). Many of the outdoor scenes are actually shot at or near the supposed location shown in the card. Exceptions (supposed criminal hangouts like whorehouses and drug dens) are given fake addresses. At one point the actors for the main Law & Order actually took a pay cut in order to keep the show filming in New York City. In some cases, things were filmed in New Jersey like some scenes at a train station that were actually filmed in Hoboken. After 9-11 some exteriors were filmed in Downtown Brooklyn filling in for the court and government buildings in Lower Manhattan which were inaccessible. |
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Vienna and the countryside around it doubles for Paris and the French countryside in The Three Musketeers (1993). It is somewhat jarring for a native to see Fleur-de-lis in imperial Austrian buildings, or neo-gothic profane buildings being used as gothic cathedral stand-ins. | |
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I Am Legend was shot in New York, with $5 million being spent on closing the Brooklyn Bridge for 5 consecutive nights. | |
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Some films shot in the Toronto area: Cinderella Man, The Pacifier, Bulletproof Monk, Kick-Ass, Dawn of the Dead (2004). Ironically, a belated coda for Dawn was shot in California. | |
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Cinderella Man | hasFeature |
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Tarzan's Fight for Life includes scenes filmed around Hat Creek and Pit River in Northern California. | |
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The Mars scenes in John Carter were filmed in Utah. | |
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence was partly filmed in Auckland, specifically the Railway Station as a Javanese military court and King's College as a South African boarding school. | |
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Thunder in Paradise had episodes set in many exotic locations, but the entire series was filmed in Florida, often making use of EPCOT Center's World Showcase and other locations at Walt Disney World. | |
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Sometimes Getting the Accent Right can distract the viewer from the wrong setting. Cagney & Lacey was set in NYC, but filmed in California, yet still felt right, because everyone in the cast sounded like they lived in NYC. Contrast with CSI: NY where almost no one sounds like an East coaster at all, let alone a New Yorker. Of course, because the Law & Order shows were filmed there, even the extras with one line sounded like New Yorkers. It's also one of the few shows where Sesame Street regulars pop up in cameos, because Sesame Street is also filmed in New York. Not to mention that Tyne Daly and Sharon Gless, in real life, don't sound anything like they do on the show. |
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Ms. Marvel (2022), set in New Jersey, was mostly filmed in Georgia, aside from secondary plates actually in Jersey. When Kamala and her mother travel to Pakistan most of the scenes were actually filmed in Thailand. | |
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Some of the Nevada scenes in Independence Day were filmed in Utah, specifically in Wendover and the Bonneville Salt Flats. | |
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Man of Steel: Chicago stands in for the fictional city of Metropolis, similar to The Dark Knight Trilogy and Smallville has Plano, Illinois stand in for the fictional Smallville in Kansas. Kansas was not at any point an actual filming location. | |
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World War Z is LOADED with this trope. Having been filmed almost entirely in Europe with (to name a few) Glasgow doubling for Philadelphia (The square with the red pavement is George Square), La Valletta doubling for Jerusalem and various towns and cities in England doubling as Canada, South Korea and Wales (despite Wales also being a filming location for other scenes). | |
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Doomsday uses mostly South Africa to stand in for post-apocalyptic Scotland. | |
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One of the funniest examples is My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which was born of a one-woman play written by and starring Nia Vardalos, a Winnipeg native, set in Winnipeg, about her wedding (in Winnipeg) and her crazy (Winnipeg-based) family, was filmed in Winnipeg, with many Winnipeg landmarks frequently visible, and all the extras (save her real-life husband Ian Gomez) being Winnipeg natives... and the movie was set in Chicago, because apparently an American audience needed an American city to enjoy the movie. | |
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The hidden camera show What Would You Do? frequently uses a location called the Colonial Diner, located in the state of New Jersey, during social experiments that involve restaurants. However, they've done episodes where they filmed scenarios like this in other parts of the country, like a segment taped in Nashville about a waiter who keeps on forgetting which patrons get which order and which patrons have birthdays that day. | |
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The car chase in For Your Eyes Only is shot in Corfu, Greece, but the locals that help Bond flip his car the right way up can be heard speaking Spanish, and Bond says "Por favor" to ask them for help with getting it started. Similarly, the "warehouse" that Bond chases Locque through is shot in the Old Fortress, Corfu, though it is doubling for Albania. Funnily enough, the real Albania is so close by that you can see it from the fortress. |
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Louis, the Child King: Several scenes that are supposed to take place inside the Louvre in Paris were filmed at the château of Chambord, the most famous of the Loire Valley Châteaux. Chambord itself was the property of Louis XIII's brother (and Louis XIV's uncle) Gaston d'Orléans at the time. | |
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Following in the footsteps of the movies, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power was also shot in New Zeeland. Season 2 is filmed in both NZ and UK. | |
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The Canadian TV series Due South, although ostensibly set in Chicago, was mainly filmed in Toronto. While most of the first two seasons featured establishing shots of the Chicago area, the distinction of scenes shot at recognizable Toronto landmarks became more noticeable in the last two seasons (on the other hand, the episode where the characters go to Toronto was filmed in... Chicago). The streetcar tracks are a dead giveaway in just about every exterior scene, as Chicago doesn't have street-running trolleys anymore. Not to mention the periodic occurrence of street signs saying things like "Centre Street". | |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, despite being from The Old West, was filmed in Winnipeg's Exchange district (which looks sufficiently old, for that matter). | |
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Scream (2022) is still set in a fictional California city, but was filmed in Wilmington. | |
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The first season of 15th-century Florence-set Leonardo was filmed in South Africa. | |
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Exteriors for Father Ted were shot in Ireland. (However, the studio interiors - and audience - were in London). | |
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Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen was mostly filmed in the Toronto area. In one scene, two characters walk by a restaurant that prominently displays the green "Pass" sign issued by the Toronto Board of Health to indicate a restaurant that passed its health standards test with flying colours. | |
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Getting Even with Dad was actually filmed in and around San Francisco. Even the theme park is in the San Francisco Bay Area, which was funnily enough doubled for a fictional theme Park in the Los Angeles Area in Beverly Hills Cop III. | |
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Likewise, the Santiago Calatrava-designed galleria at BCE place appears in a number of science fiction films, notably Gattaca. | |
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The Boondock Saints: Both films were made in Toronto, with the exception of overhead establishing shots in Boston. The CN Tower can be seen, as well as a Toronto Dominion bank. | |
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Transformers: Age of Extinction had location shoots in Beijing, Hong Kong, Texas, and Utah's Monument Valley. | |
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure has Arizona (namely Phoenix and Tempe) doubling for San Dimas, California and Italy doubling for England. | |
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For Richer or Poorer was the first in a growing number of Baltimore Doubling instances. Notably outrageous though, as the much of the movie takes place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which is not that far from where the film was actually shot. | |
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In Forrest Gump, South Carolina doubles for Alabama. | |
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Rock of Ages takes place in Los Angeles and Hollywood but was shot in Miami. Inverted, one could say. | |
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In the 2018 Tomb Raider movie, scenes set in Hong Kong and on the island of Yamatai were mostly shot in South Africa. | |
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Spaghetti Westerns were filmed with a variety of European locations doubling for the American West. The semidesertic province of AlmerÃa in Spain, with its wide-open spaces that evoked an untamed frontier (and extras who could more or less pass for Mexican), was probably the most common. Some movies of the same genre as the Dollars Trilogy were filmed (link in Spanish) in other places of Spain as the provinces of Madrid and Burgos as much if not more than in AlmerÃa. Seeing typical Mediterranean vegetation on typical karst rocks in what is supposed to be wild west or Mexico is quite amusing ("Wait a minute! This could actually be that hill where we use to go to weekend trips."). The same location was used as well in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the prequel TV series, standing for Greece, the Hatay republic (now in Turkey), Egypt and Mexico. The Mexican episode was later recut and released as a TV movie with additional scenes in the American SW that were really filmed in the American SW, and it is quite amusing to see how the vegetation and terrain suddenly change as soon as the main character crosses the frontier. Grass is Greener here indeed... Lawrence of Arabia was also partially filmed in Spain, in addition to Morocco and Jordan. Only Jordan lies in the region the film is depicting. |
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City on Fire takes place in an unnamed Midwestern American city, but was shot entirely in Montreal. As a result, some French language signs can be seen in the city. | |
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Touched by an Angel takes place in an Everytown, America setting, but was filmed entirely in Salt Lake City. | |
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A rather odd, yet strangely hilarious, inversion: Zombieland has quite a bit of its running time set in Hollywood, including a major movie star's mansion and a theme park. So both of those scenes were, quite naturally, filmed in Georgia. | |
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Transformers Film Series: Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has scenes set at the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. It is the first production in decades to get permission to actually film on-site, thanks to the official in charge of that decision being a fan of the series. Transformers: Dark of the Moon filmed its climactic battle in Chicago and they actually had entire portions of Chicago blocked off for filming. Played straight for the scenes on the moon though. Transformers: Age of Extinction had location shoots in Beijing, Hong Kong, Texas, and Utah's Monument Valley. |
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F.I.S.T. had Dubuque, Iowa filling in for Cleveland as it was said to look more like Cleveland of the 1930s than Cleveland itself did due to the near total absence of television antennas in Dubuque during the 1970s. Dubuque's geography made receiving over the air television signals problematic for most area residents, so a cable television system was developed in the 1950s, well before most other localities had implemented their own cable TV systems. | |
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Suck had Toronto doubling for Buffalo, Chicago and New York. | |
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Thor is set in a small town in New Mexico. Where is it filmed, you ask? Why, a small town in New Mexico. (Well, mostly Albuquerque made to look smaller than it is). Thor: The Dark World is also set in England, and shot there - including the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich. |
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2001: A Space Odyssey, not counting the space scenes, starts in Africa. | |
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Drop Dead Diva has Atlanta doubling for Los Angeles. | |
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Many scenes in The Muppets Take Manhattan where some of the Muppets get jobs in other states, were still filmed in New York. Notably, the scene of Gonzo in "Michigan" was actually filmed at Rye Playland. | |
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Saving Private Ryan was filmed in Ireland and England, such as Ballinesker Beach, Curracole Strand, County Wexford, Ireland, stood in for Omaha Beach (noticeable by the fact it's only about ten or twenty yards long, as opposed to the 700+ yard long Omaha Beach), the former British Aerospace factory in Hatfield, Hedfordshire, England, was Ramelle, and Thame Park, Thame, Oxfordshire, England, was the machine gun nest, all shots of large fields and where the halftrack is ambushed, with some scenes filmed in London and Calvados, France. | |
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Many historical films in the 60s and 70s were filmed in Spain - including Chimes at Midnight and The Three Musketeers (1973) - because the labor was cheap, the terrain was varied, and, frankly, Franco's government was incredibly receptive to bribery. | |
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: All the scenes in Afghanistan are filmed in New Mexico with Laguna Pueblo doubling for a small Afghan village. | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was partly filmed in the Czech Republic. | |
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Season 2 of Leverage is set in Boston and filmed in Portland, Oregon. (Season 1 averts the trope for the most part, being set and filmed in Los Angeles.) | |
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In Furious 7 the scenes set in Los Angeles were filmed in Atlanta. | |
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Stranger Things: Hawkins, Indiana is represented by Jackson, Georgia, roughly halfway between Atlanta and Macon. Notably, the choice of setting was motivated by this trope. It was originally titled Montauk and set in the real-life Long Island town of that name, with the setting meant to have an Amity Island feel to it. However, their budget didn't allow them to film in a location that could double for that sort of Northeastern coastal town, while suburban Georgia, with that state's generous tax breaks, could easily double for an Amblin-esque Everytown, America setting. The largely vacant Gwinnett Place Mall in Duluth, Georgia doubles as the Starcourt Mall in Season 3 with several period-accurate storefronts. Incidentally, Gwinnett Place actually opened in 1984, lending further credence to the show's 80s setting. |
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Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever was filmed in Vancouver and acknowledges its setting as Vancouver, yet all of the characters are American and it makes little sense for them all to be in Canada. | |
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being, set in the Prague Spring, was filmed in France and Switzerland as communist Czechoslovakia still existed at the time. Ironically, the Czech Republic would later become a frequent target of this trope. | |
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Walking with…: Because the various series intended to show the natural environments that existed in prehistoric times, rather obviously very few of the locations were actually filmed where they're set. The "Making Of" chronicles the difficulty of finding suitable modern locales in exotic spots around the world that resembled the Earth during the Mesozoic Era (mostly to the omnipresence of grass, a flora which, at the time, was not known to have existed during the time period). Walking with Dinosaurs: The first episode, "New Blood", set in Arizona during the Late Triassic, was filmed in the arid scrubland of New Caledonia. The second episode, "Time of Titans", set in Colorado during the Late Jurassic, was mostly filmed in the redwood forests of California, while some parts were in Chile and Tasmania. The third episode, "Cruel Sea", set in England during the Late Jurassic, was mostly filmed in the Bahamas, while the beach scenes were in New Caledonia. The fourth episode, "Giant of the Skies", set in North America, Brazil, and England during the Early Cretaceous, and the fifth episode, "Spirits of the Ice Forest", set in Antarctica during the Mid Cretaceous, were both filmed in various parts of New Zealand and Tasmania. The last episode, "Death of a Dynasty", set in Montana during the Late Cretaceous, was filmed at ConguillÃo National Park in Chile. This location was revisited for the first Prehistoric Park episode, which was set in the same time and place. Walking with Beasts: The first episode, "New Dawn", set in Germany during the Early Eocene, was filmed in the rainforests of Java. The second episode, Whale Killer" set around the coast of the Tethys Sea during the Late Eocene, was filmed in the Chihuahuan Desert for the inland scenes, the Florida Keys for the mangrove scenes. The third episode, "Land of Giants", set in Mongolia during the Late Oligocene, was filmed in the scrublands of Arizona and the Chihuahuan Desert again. The fourth episode, Next of Kin", set in Ethiopia during the Pliocene, largely averts this; it was mostly filmed in Ethiopia, because the region has not changed drastically in the time since the episode is set, although some parts were also in South Africa. The fifth episode, Sabre Tooth, set in the Pleistocene of South America, also averts this; it was filmed in the cerrados of Brazil, because, again, the region was not that different then as it is now. The sixth episode, "Mammoth Journey", set in Europe during the Quaternary, was filmed in the snowy taiga of Yukon (this location was revisited for the second Prehistoric Park episode, also set in Europe during the ice age). Walking with Monsters: The Early Silurian segment, set in South Wales, was filmed in Arizona during the portion showing the Cephalaspis migration upriver. The Late Devonian segment, set in Pennsylvania, was filmed in Devil's Postpile National Monument, which is near Mammoth Mountain in California. The Late Carboniferous segment, set in Kansas, was filmed in Florida, in swamp forest that was modified in post-production to make it look more prehistoric. The Early Permian segment, set in Germany, was filmed in Inyo National Forest in California, in the bristlecone pine groves. Both the Late Permian segment, set in Siberia, and the Early Triassic segment, set in Antarctica, were filmed on Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura, two of the Canary Islands. Chased by Dinosaurs: "The Giant Claw", set in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous, was filmed on Fraser Island, off the coast of Queensland. The desert in the episode was actually just a big beach. "Land of Giants", set in Argentina during the Mid Cretaceous, was filmed in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. Much of the volcanic landscape was the ash-covered slopes of Mount Teide. Sea Monsters: Most of the series was filmed around the Bahamas, offshore from the West Coast in New Zealand, and in the Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt. Technically, the Eocene segment is an aversion, since it's also set in Egypt, but it is otherwise played straight because no other segment is set in any of the filming locations (which varied from Peru, Kansas, Ohio, Switzerland New York, and England). |
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Inverted in the film Crash, which was set in LA, but filmed many of its exterior shots in Germany because it was German-financed. There's also a short-lived Crash series, which continued the tradition by using Albuquerque for LA. | |
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The movie Don't Say a Word was filmed in an abandoned subway station in Toronto filling in for a New York City station. The station (Lower Bay) has filled in for NYC and Chicago stations so many times that the Toronto Transit Commission asked that the movie set be donated to them, giving them a selling point for future location shoots. | |
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Time Trax had the hero "travelling through our world, searching for fugitives from his own," but all of this travelling was done in Australia ("Photo Finish" was a rare episode to be set there). | |
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Longmire: Both the TV and Book series take place in Wyoming, but are filmed in New Mexico. | |
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In Tenet, the opening sequence set in Kyiv, Ukraine, was actually shot at the Linnahall concert hall in Tallinn, Estonia. Strangely enough, several other scenes shot in Tallinn were set there in the script, so this doubles as both an aversion and being played straight. | |
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Wilmington stands in for Detroit in The Crow. | |
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With the exception of certain scenes shot in New Orleans, The Dirt was actually shot in and around the Sunset Strip in L.A., where Mötley Crüe got their start. | |
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X and Pearl, set in a backwoods Texas city and farmhold, was filmed in Fordell and Whanganui. | |
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The Post takes place in Washington, D.C., but a majority of it was actually filmed in White Plains, New York. | |
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The Rock actually was filmed in San Francisco and Alcatraz Prison on Alcatraz Island itself. Since the prison is a designated national park, they couldn't close it for production, so they needed to accommodate the tourists there. | |
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X-Men was primarily filmed there. For instance, the mansion interior was filmed in Casa Loma, a Toronto landmark. | |
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The scenes in the pilot for Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles that were set in New Mexico were actually filmed in New Mexico. The rest of the series was set and filmed in Los Angeles. | |
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Tiger House is set in England, but was shot in South Africa. | |
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The Philippines doubled for Thailand in Brokedown Palace. | |
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War of the Worlds (1988): Toronto and its surrounding municipalities double for multiple cities within the U.S., with the bulk of the action implied to happen near or in San Francisco and some southern states (i.e. Nevada). Numerous locales in Mississauga, Ontario (located just outside Toronto) double for key locations, including Mississauga City Hall and the former Lakeview Generating Plant (the site of the Morthrai's base in the first two episodes of the second season). | |
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Lawrence of Arabia was also partially filmed in Spain, in addition to Morocco and Jordan. Only Jordan lies in the region the film is depicting. | |
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Blue My Mind: While Connyworld is a real amusement park (Switzerland's largest in fact), it's still a fairly small amusement park, and doesn't have a train ride. A much larger amusement park, with a train ride, was used to represent Connyworld in the film. | |
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Spin City was both set and filmed in New York until Michael J. Fox left and Charlie Sheen arrived, sending the production to Hollywood. | |
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Without a Trace set and filmed parts of one episode in Tokyo. Anthony LaPaglia was heading to Japan to watch an Australian soccer team he co-owns participate in a tournament, so he suggested filming an episode there at the same time. | |
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Miracle at Midnight: The movie is set in Denmark but filmed in Ireland. | |
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Because of Winn-Dixie was set in Florida, but was filmed in Napoleonville and Gibson, Louisiana. | |
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Strike Back has South Africa standing in for a wide variety of (sub)tropical locations, and Hungary for temperate ones. The trope is inverted in the opening episode of Shadow Warfare when Scott and Winchester are shown driving motorcycles along a road in "Northern California," but lane markings, roadside reflectors, etc. are ones not found in the US. | |
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The Punisher (1989) had the title character pulling up on his motorcycle outside a CES sign, which any Australian of the time would recognize as the Commonwealth Employment Service (the govt organization that handed out dole payments). Ironically the service was privatized some time ago, so anyone watching it on DVD now would likely not recognize it. | |
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Black Sails is primarily shot at a studio in Cape Town, with South Africa filling in for New Providence, Bahamas in outdoor and water scenes. | |
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Most of SHAZAM! (2019) had Toronto doubling for Philadelphia. | |
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Terms of Endearment: Some scenes set in Texas were actually filmed in Lincoln, Nebraska where the bulk of the film is set. In addition, the scene where the station wagon crosses the "Texas State Line" was actually filmed just outside Cortland, NE. |
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The sixth episode, "Mammoth Journey", set in Europe during the Quaternary, was filmed in the snowy taiga of Yukon (this location was revisited for the second Prehistoric Park episode, also set in Europe during the ice age). | |
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Hawaii doubles for a Central American island in Jurassic Park, the Amazon in both the first and fourth Indiana Jones movies and The Rundown (the crew of the latter planned to film in Brazil, but gave up after getting robbed there), Panama in Godzilla (1998) (leading future productions shot in Oahu to hide a giant footprint), Florida in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Okinawa Island in The Karate Kid Part 2 (although some scenes were filmed on-location), and Africa in Tears of the Sun. | |
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The Power of the Dog is a Western, set in Montana and filmed in the Otago region of New Zealand. | |
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Balamory, set in a fictional Scottish island town, was shot on location in Scotland (in Tobermory, West Lothian, and Glasgow to be precise). | |
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For Emerald City much of the architecture of the eponymous city is lifted directly from Barcelona. Anyone casually familiar with the city will notice Gaudi's work, most notably scenes taking place inside Park Güell. | |
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In Robin of Sherwood England doubled for England, just not the same bits of it. Sherwood Forest was mostly represented by a wood outside Bristol, Nottingham Castle by various northern castles and Wells Cathedral, and other locations were scattered across the country, mostly in the north and west. | |
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Superman IV: The Quest for Peace: Due to the poor budget, Superman IV was the only entry in the series that was shot entirely in the UK, shooting its Metropolis scenes in Milton Keynes, with the Kent farm recreated on farmland in Baldock, North Hertfordshire, despite the fact that the farm from the first film was still standing at the time. | |
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The Doctor Who producers are on the record as being relieved that the spinoff series Torchwood could (for its first two series) be set in Cardiff, so they don't have to pretend that recognizable landmarks are actually somewhere else. | |
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's "Wolverines" mission is set in northeastern Virginia, but the strip mall is modeled after a location in Vancouver, WA. | |
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Averted by two elements of The NBC Mystery Movie: Not only did McCloud, set in New York, do a lot of location filming in the Big Apple (and New Mexico, where our hero was from), but the episode "Night of the Shark," where McCloud went to Australia in pursuit of a criminal, was indeed filmed there. This was a condition of Richard Widmark agreeing to do Madigan, one of his few ventures into television (and his only series) - half the episodes were shot in Europe with the other half being in New York, and we always knew where he was going thanks to the title of the episode. The Columbo episode "Dagger Of The Mind," set in London, also partly-averted it; some of the episode was filmed in Hollywood, but some of it was indeed filmed in London (providing a rare chance to see Bernard Fox actually in the UK!). In fact, one of the British actors had to remain in the US, as he was wanted for tax evasion in the UK. |
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The battle scenes in Braveheart were largely filmed in Ireland (a literal Scotireland, no less), possibly because rural Ireland is less heavily developed than the rural Scottish Lowlands, or as inaccessible and impractical as the Scottish Highlands. The Scottish filming took place in Glen Coe and Glen Nevis, which, depending on how strictly you hold the film to history, can be taken as doubling for other parts of Scotland. | |
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The 1989 TV series Doctor Doctor was supposedly set in Providence, Rhode Island, but was filmed in Denver, Colorado. This explains why you could occasionally see the Rocky Mountains in the background; the highest point in the actual state of Rhode Island is only 812 feet above sea level. | |
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The Marksman is supposed to take place along the Mexican border in Arizona but many scenes clearly show the Sandia mountains next to Albuquerque in the background. It should be noted that most locations in Arizona along the border look nothing like the high Desert of Central New Mexico. | |
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Gran Torino was also both made and set in suburban Detroit (Highland Park, Michigan to be specific. But... 1972 Ford Gran Torinos like the titular car were made in Lorain, Ohio. | |
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While Person of Interest is set and shot in New York, both the city and upstate locations double for areas as diverse as Texas, Iraq, Rome, Sankt-Petersburg, and Ordos Kangbashi. They did however shoot parts of a fifth season episode in Washington D.C., where the story was set. | |
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An Officer and a Gentleman plays a bit with the trope. The Navy Aviation School is situated in Pensacola, Florida, but the film was made at an abandoned Air Force base in Washington State. There are, however, no attempts made to make Washington look like Florida, and a lot of things, including local slang, are slightly altered to make us believe and feel you can become a Navy Pilot on an island west of Seattle. | |
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The Wire was actually filmed in Baltimore, but used different sections of East Baltimore exclusively (obvious non-inclusions would be when they needed to film the ports or other locales not found in the inner city). Most of the high-rise housing projects in which the Barksdale crew operates in the early seasons were actually torn down before the start of the series (this is eventually shown in Season 3). During the first season digital fakery is used to put some high rises up in the background of scenes set in The Pit. Their next project Treme is set and filmed in New Orleans. |
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Tropical Heat/Sweating Bullets was a primarily Canadian production; the three seasons were shot in Mexico (for tax reasons), Israel, and South Africa. It was set in the fictional Florida Keys town of Key Mariah. | |
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Zoo takes place in various American cities and assorted international locations. The series is shot in New Orleans. | |
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is set in Thailand, but was filmed in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), a distinction the publicity of the time didn't see fit to make clear. Instead, it raved about the movie being shot in Ceylon in a way which implied the real-life River Kwai was located there. | |
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The Famous Jett Jackson is set in the fictitious town of Wilsted, North Carolina, but was filmed in the Greater Toronto Area. | |
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The Avengers' city scenes, set in New York and Stuttgart, were shot in Cleveland. | |
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The titular town of Silent Hill and Silent Hill: Revelation 3D is in West Virginia, but both films were filmed in Ontario. The first movie was filmed in Brantford while the second movie was filmed in Toronto. | |
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New Zealand doubled for Oregon in Without a Paddle (they even had the same costumer from The Lord of the Rings!), which had forests that were simply not thick enough to be Pacific Northwest. | |
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Geostorm takes place around the world, but was mostly shot in New Orleans. | |
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The Last Days of American Crime is eventually revealed to be set in Detroit, despite that the film was shot in Cape Town, Western Cape and Johannesburg, South Africa. | |
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New Zealand doubled for Japan in The Last Samurai; the reason being is that there wasn't any wide spaces for the battles in Japan, plus the availability of a stunt double for Mt Fuji. It's particularly jarring for anyone watching the first battle scene in the forest if they have lived in NZ for some time. There were just too many silver ferns around that have been taught since primary school were native to New Zealand. | |
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Most of the exterior shots of the first Mortal Kombat movie were filmed in Thailand, and it really shows, particularly when it's doubling for China. Thai Buddhist temples look waaaay different from Chinese ones. | |
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In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, though the film takes place in New York and Ancient Japan, many scenes are actually filmed in Hong Kong and Astoria, Oregon. | |
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Shadowhunters is set in New York but is filmed exclusively in Toronto. | |
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Elvis (2022) was set almost entirely in the United States, with a couple scenes set in what was then West Germany. However the film was shot entirely in Queensland, Australia. | |
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In Airport, Lincoln International Airport is supposed to be located in Chicago. Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was redressed to be used (due to the producers not wanting to risk a lack of snow in Chicago). The first sequel Airport 1975 uses entirely real airports, making use of both Washington Dulles International Airport and Salt Lake City International Airport. | |
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Unfriended was shot in a single house in Santa Clarita standing in for multiple houses in Fresno. | |
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Fun with ''Morse'' - see if you can spot the real Oxford locations (usually the famous bits) and which are Stevenage in North Herts. | |
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Inspector Morse | hasFeature |
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Racing Stripes takes place in Kentucky (although the specific locality is not named, it's likely near Florence in the Kentucky part of the Cincinnati metro area, as the nearby horse racing track Turfway Park is named), but was filmed in and around Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. | |
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Fire in the Sky: The outdoor scenes that were supposed to be in the mountains of Arizona were actually filmed in southern Oregon. | |
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The Beast and The Chicago Code were both set and filmed in Chicago. The former used some of the lesser-known Chicago landmarks to interesting effect, and both took full advantage of the 'L' train tracks that run through downtown. | |
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In the Heat of the Night was set in Sparta, Mississippi, but was filmed in Louisiana for the first season, and then in Covington, Georgia for seasons 2-6. | |
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Hightown has been filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina since season 2 but is still set in Provincetown, Massachusetts. | |
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Ocean's Eleven and its sequels, for the most part, were filmed in Las Vegas, Italy, and France at least for all the major locations. | |
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Ocean's Eleven | hasFeature |
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The Hunger Games sets District 12 in Appalachia, but the movie was filmed outside Wilmington, North Carolina, on the coast. | |
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The Hunger Games | hasFeature |
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Captain America: The Winter Soldier is primarily set in Washington, D.C., but was mostly filmed in Cleveland. | |
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One Tree Hill is set in a fictional town called Tree Hill, North Carolina and the show was filmed in the real North Carolina city of Willmington. | |
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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World was both set and filmed in Toronto - almost a requirement, because both the film and the graphic novels it's based on showcase popular Toronto landmarks like Casa Loma, the Toronto Reference Library, and Sneaky Dee's. Though some of those locations were actually too small to film in so replicas had to be built. There is, however, in-universe Toronto doubling, with Lucas Lee's movie featuring a fake New York skyline... and a castle... | |
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Ed was set in Ohio. All outdoor scenes were filmed in Westfield, New Jersey. | |
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Ed | hasFeature |
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K9 was filmed in Brisbane, although the show is set in London in 2050. | |
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Toronto doubles for Los Angeles in The L.A. Complex with a mix of location-shot establishing shots and yellow filters to make the sun look brighter. | |
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This was inverted by Amadeus, which is set in Vienna, but was filmed in Prague. This is because the film is a Period Piece and socialist-era Prague could easily pass for 18th-century Vienna due to it still having a lot of buildings typical of European cities during that century. | |
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The pilot for Against the Wall opened with loads of footage of some of the most famous Chicago landmarks (with "Sweet Home Chicago" playing in the background). But once the music stopped, it quickly became clear that most of the show was filmed in Toronto (aside from occasional uses of stock footage). During the pilot, the crew took the trouble of replicating Chicago Tribune newspaper boxes but didn't bother to disguise the street signs. Streetcar tracks are visible in a few downtown scenes, and the 'L' train tracks are noticeably absent (save for aforementioned stock footage). | |
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Double subverted on one episode of James May's Toy Stories, where James tries to fly a balsawood toy glider across the English channel. Due to international flight regulations, he has to settle for flying the equivalent distance across the sea from England to Wales instead, and briefly discusses having some Welshmen dress up in mustaches and accordions. When that flight fails due to weather conditions, he instead - successfully - flies it from the English coast to the island of Lundy, which he renames Llundy to make it sound more Welsh. | |
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Top Gear | hasFeature |
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Pete's Dragon (2016) was shot in New Zealand but takes place in a Everytown, America setting. | |
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Five Feet Apart is mostly set inside the fictional Saint Grace's Hospital in a un-named city, but was filmed in New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
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Where the Heart Is mostly takes place in Oklahoma, with one scene in Maine, but was filmed entirely in Texas. Baylor University stood in for Maine's Bowdoin College. | |
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Where the Heart Is | hasFeature |
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty has the main character travel through Iceland, Greenland, and Afghanistan on his journey. All 3 locations were filmed on Iceland, made especially visible by how the Afghanistan horse riding scenes had the characters ride on Icelandic horses, as larger horse breeds are banned from being imported to Iceland. | |
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In Evan Almighty, the village of Crozet (about 10 miles from Charlottesville) doubled for the much more urban Northern Virginia suburbs. | |
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Evan Almighty | hasFeature |
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SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods has Atlanta doubling for Philadelphia. | |
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SHAZAM! Fury of the Gods | hasFeature |
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California Doubling | |
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Vienna doubled for Moscow in Firefox. | |
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Firefox | hasFeature |
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California Doubling | |
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In an inversion of traditional "California doubling for another city," Ant-Man and Ant-Man and the Wasp have Atlanta doubling for San Francisco. | |
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Set in the universal American city, Metropolis, all of Superman Returns was filmed in Australia. The Kansas scenes were filmed near Tamworth, a country town. At one point Bryan Singer was worried that the original Kansas farm scenes from the first movie were actually filmed in Kansas; he learned that Richard Donner filmed them in Alberta. | |
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Superman Returns | hasFeature |
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For the Steven Seagal film Exit Wounds, not only did Toronto and nearby Hamilton double for Detroit...so did Calgary. | |
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Exit Wounds | hasFeature |
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Sea Monsters: Most of the series was filmed around the Bahamas, offshore from the West Coast in New Zealand, and in the Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt. Technically, the Eocene segment is an aversion, since it's also set in Egypt, but it is otherwise played straight because no other segment is set in any of the filming locations (which varied from Peru, Kansas, Ohio, Switzerland New York, and England). | |
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Sea Monsters | hasFeature |
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier uses the Atlanta metropolitan area and the Czech Republic for a wide array of locations, including Louisiana, Baltimore and Munich. | |
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The Falcon and the Winter Soldier | hasFeature |
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Vienna doubled for Bratislava in The Living Daylights. | |
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The Living Daylights | hasFeature |
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The Train Now Standing...: In-Universe, Burberry Halt is a station on the former Great Western Railway, placing it somewhere in the West of England, but location filming was done at Bodiam station in East Sussex, which is in the South East of England. | |
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The Train Now Standing... | hasFeature |
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Baywatch was mostly set on LA County beaches, where most of if was actually filmed. | |
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Baywatch | hasFeature |
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The film adaptation of Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. was filmed in North Carolina, despite being set in New York and New Jersey. | |
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Scooby-Doo was filmed in Australia, but is set mostly on a fictional US island/theme park named "Spooky Island". The opening scenes not taking place on the island were also filmed here. Filming moved to Vancouver, Canada for the sequel. | |
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The Phantom had Warner Bros Movie World on Queensland's Gold Coast and the city of Brisbane doubling for various US locations. | |
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel largely films on location no matter where the characters go, with the show being based out of New York City. When Abe and Midge travel to Paris early in season 2 after Rose runs off, the show really filmed in Paris. An actual resort in the Catskills was used for Steiner Mountain Resort. In season 3, the Fontainebleu Resort in Miami plays itself. | |
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Although set in Toledo, Spain, The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) was shot at Castello di Giove, Giove, Terni, Umbria, Italy. | |
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A Knight's Tale had the Czech Republic double for France and London. | |
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A Knight's Tale | hasFeature |
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Averted with Hawaii in Godzilla (2014), but at the same time played straight in that Hawaii doubled for the Philippines at the beginning. | |
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Godzilla (2014) | hasFeature |
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Averted in Flashpoint which is set, for once, in a generic Canadian city, though it bleeds from "filmed in Toronto" to "set in Toronto" as the seasons wear on. | |
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No Time to Die: Bond goes to Santiago de Cuba at one point. No filming for these scenes took place in Cuba, rather in Jamaica and at Pinewood Studios. The filming of the climax on the Big Bad's island (implied to be one of the Kuril Islands, claimed by both Russia and Japan) took place on the Faroe Islands, northwest of the UK. |
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Gossip Girl is the master... er, mistress of averting this trope; the series is set and filmed in New York, the episode/backdoor pilot "Valley Girls," mostly set in LA, was actually filmed in LA, and when Serena van der Woodsen and Co. went to Paris those episodes were also filmed in the City of Lights. Serena spends the end of season four and beginning of season five in La-La Land, and her storyline's filmed there as well. (That said, there are a few exceptions - see above.) | |
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Despite being set primarily in Scotland and New York, Highlander was filmed in Scotland and London. | |
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Highlander | hasFeature |
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In Casino Royale, Madagascar is the Bahamas, and Montenegro is the Czech Republic. | |
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Many Canadian genre films of the 1970s and early 1980s, including Black Christmas and Prom Night, would be produced with the lucrative American film market in mind, and as such would often be set in innocuous, Middle American locales while being shot in and near Toronto. Often times, this would be indicated through the presence of American paraphernalia while avoiding any direct on-screen reference to a specific location, in an effort to keep the film's setting ambiguous enough to avoid alienating any particular geographic demographic. | |
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Black Christmas (2019) takes place in an un-named American college town, but was filmed in Dunedin and Oamaru in the Otago region of New Zealand. | |
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Despite being set in New York and showing Toronto's skyline, much of Kick-Ass is filmed in Hamilton. | |
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Wednesday is supposedly taking place in Vermont but was entirely shot in multiple locations in Romania. | |
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Tracker (2001) was filmed in Toronto while being set in Chicago. | |
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In The Tomorrow People (1973): "Worlds Away", on arriving for the first time on an alien planet, one character warns the others, "This isn't just some wood in Surrey," which is Lampshade Hanging by the writers — the scene was indeed filmed in a wood in the British county of Surrey. | |
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Shoot 'Em Up is also clearly shot in Toronto: They don't even try to hide the CN tower | |
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The opening of Heaven's Gate showed the characters graduating from Harvard. Director Michael Cimino couldn't get permission to film at Harvard University itself. So he decided to film the scene at Oxford University in England despite that fact that Oxford looks nothing like Harvard. | |
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Capcom also produces the Ace Attorney franchise, whose games are supposed to take place in the United Statesnote Los Angeles, specifically, which ironically means California is the one being doubled for this time, yet many locations are based on Japanese structures and cultures and the court system is based more off of the Japanese courts than American courts. It also doesn't help that the Japanese version of the games are written to take place directly in Japan, which makes many of the settings and characters fit better. According to Word of God, the first game was made with localization in mind while the sequels didn't have any immediate plans to be localized, which is why they have a lot of Japanese cultural references and why the localized versions fall into the trope. One of the localizers explained that the reason the the localized games have so much Japanese references and cultures is due the settings taking place in an alternate timeline where anti-Japanese laws in the United States never existed, allowing Japanese citizens to live and flourish in California. | |
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Averted in Ronin (1998); the director, John Frankenheimer, spent a number of years in France. Shot on location, even the license plates are right. | |
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Ronin (1998) | hasFeature |
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The End of the World series: An in-universe example; while watching a Capitol soap opera about a detective in District 4, Haymitch notes that the seashore looks suspiciously like the Capitiol lake. | |
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Averted in David Cronenberg's The Fly (1986), which really is set in Toronto, and makes no effort to hide the CN Tower. In fact, this is the case for most (if not all) of Cronenberg's films. See also Videodrome and Crash. | |
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The Fly (1986) | hasFeature |
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The pilot for Quantico, set in Virginia (flashbacks) and New York City (present), was shot in Atlanta; the series was shot in Québec. For season two production transferred to NYC. | |
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Quantico | hasFeature |
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In Knowing, Melbourne serves as a stand-in for both Boston and parts of New York City. | |
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Knowing | hasFeature |
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Parodied by The Fast Show in the Shore Leave sketch. The sailors start singing that they are in New York in what is clearly Newcastle. | |
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The Fast Show | hasFeature |
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Third Watch is set and filmed in New York. The fictional 55th precinct on the show was supposedly "uptown" Manhattan, but they filmed extensively in the outer boroughs with the exteriors for the firehouse and precinct house being in Long Island City, Queens. |
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Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, set in New York, was filmed there. | |
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Short Circuit 2 was set in New York City, but obviously shot completely in Toronto and environs (including scenes at the Eaton Centre and World's Biggest Bookstore, two famous Toronto landmarks). You can even see the CN Tower in some shots if you look closely. | |
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Short Circuit 2 | hasFeature |
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Transformers (2007) filmed scenes set in the Middle East in the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico for fairly obvious reasons. | |
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Transformers (2007) | hasFeature |
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The Bold and the Beautiful likes to avert this when characters go overseas, with shooting in locations like Barbados and Italy (both places where the show's very popular). | |
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The same location was used as well in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the prequel TV series, standing for Greece, the Hatay republic (now in Turkey), Egypt and Mexico. The Mexican episode was later recut and released as a TV movie with additional scenes in the American SW that were really filmed in the American SW, and it is quite amusing to see how the vegetation and terrain suddenly change as soon as the main character crosses the frontier. Grass is Greener here indeed... | |
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Averted in the 1960s film The Great Escape after they initially tried to plan filming in California. After being frustrated finding remotely acceptable grove of appropriate-looking trees (let alone appropriate-looking forests), they decided to film the entire movie in Germany because "Germany looks like Germany," resulting in a film with visuals so rich it at times bordered on Scenery Porn. | |
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Adrift (2006), the in-name-only sequel to Open Water, is a real hodge-podge - a German production filmed in English with an almost completely American cast, set off the coast of Mexico... and filmed in Malta. | |
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Adrift (2006) | hasFeature |
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The Departed is an odd example. It's set in Boston, and some scenes (two weeks' worth) were filmed there, but the majority was filmed in New York. Due to the success of the film, one of the first bills signed into law by Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick was the creation of a massive (25%) tax credit for filmmaking in the Commonwealth. Subsequent films set in Boston, including Ben Affleck's first two movies as a director, have thus been filmed in Boston. | |
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The Mentalist averted this (mostly) for the first six seasons, setting the show in California as well as filming there. Now that the show has moved to Austin, it's no longer averting the trope. | |
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The Mentalist | hasFeature |
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Wildfire takes place in central California (east of Oakland), but was filmed in New Mexico because of tax incentives. A riverside location frequently used in this series also turns up in Breaking Bad. | |
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Wildfire | hasFeature |
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Chasing Mavericks was actually filmed in Santa Cruz and Half-Moon Bay, California. The local pizzeria at Pleasure Point even did a bit of remodeling so that it resembled its past self at the time the movie was set. | |
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Cybergirl was set in a fictitious city named "River City", which was a very thinly-veiled version of Brisbane (the location of River City was never given). | |
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Cybergirl | hasFeature |
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Doubling has been aggressively averted on Breaking Bad, which is filmed almost entirely in the Albuquerque metro area. However, they turn around and approach the trope from the other end, because scenes set in Mexico are usually filmed in New Mexico with a yellow filter slapped over the camera lens. The show was originally set in Riverside, east of Los Angeles, and was scheduled to shoot there before the company received a generous tax break from the city of Albuquerque. The production team eventually decided to change the setting to Albuquerque because the scenery was so distinctive. That said, it's still played straight in both Breaking Bad and its prequel spinoff Better Call Saul, where Albuquerque also doubles for Houston, Philadelphia, Hanover Germany, and suburban Chicago. |
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Breaking Bad | hasFeature |
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North Carolina stands in for Central Florida in Paper Towns. | |
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Paper Towns | hasFeature |
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Chased by Dinosaurs: "The Giant Claw", set in Mongolia during the Late Cretaceous, was filmed on Fraser Island, off the coast of Queensland. The desert in the episode was actually just a big beach. "Land of Giants", set in Argentina during the Mid Cretaceous, was filmed in Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. Much of the volcanic landscape was the ash-covered slopes of Mount Teide. |
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The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies were filmed almost entirely in New Zealand, a country which apparently is the closest they could find to limitless untouched landscape, save for the scenes that required a green screen. According to the DVD extras, about the only location they couldn't find was the rolling green prairies of Rohan — a slightly less-mountainous area was used instead. Peter Jackson also had New Zealand play California (The Frighteners) and New York (King Kong (2005)). The Broadway hall where Carl Denham exhibits Kong to New York was played by Auckland's Civic Theatre. At the peak of the stage's proscenium arch is a winged globe with a silhouette of New Zealand clearly visible. |
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Practically any movie set in the Middle East is filmed in Morocco for political and security reasons. In addition to ancient or medieval history films, Black Hawk Down has used Morocco to double for war-torn Somalia. | |
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Black Hawk Down | hasFeature |
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The Machinist was set in LA, but filmed in Barcelona, because it was made with Spanish money. This, by the way, is why the film's title is in Spanish on IMDB. | |
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The Machinist | hasFeature |
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Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has scenes set at the Great Pyramids in Giza, Egypt. It is the first production in decades to get permission to actually film on-site, thanks to the official in charge of that decision being a fan of the series. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse: The exterior of John Abbott College (located in a suburb of Montreal) was the stand-in for the Auschwitz concentration camp. The steel mill factory where Erik works is in Saint-Ours, a town about 75 km from Montreal. The East Berlin fight club venue is the Corona Theatre in Old Montreal. | |
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In an inversion, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law is set mostly in Los Angeles but was filmed in Atlanta. | |
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Battlefield Earth was filmed in Montreal, doubling for a generic Sci-Fi setting. | |
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Highlander III: The Sorcerer has a scene set in a New York airport. One of the signs visible in the background reads "Bienvenue à Montréal". | |
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Highlander III: The Sorcerer | hasFeature |
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Burn Notice is set in Miami and filmed in Miami. They do everything they can to remind us of that. They often use the Miami area to double for various other locales, including West Africa in the pilot using careful camera shots and an orange "heat" filter. | |
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The 1988 TV revival of Mission: Impossible was filmed in Brisbane, and later Melbourne. The Brisbane TV station screening the series ran a competition asking viewers to pick out the local landmarks used. (Averted in three episodes - "The Cattle King" and "The Golden Serpent" parts 1 and 2 - which did involve Australia!) | |
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Most of the backgrounds for Yamaku High School in Katawa Shoujo, a Western-developed Dating Sim set in Japan, are actually pictures of the Brown University campus (located in Rhode Island). Additionally, in an instance of actual California Doubling, the kitchen from the Ibarazaki house appears to be of a not especially uncommon design in the San Francisco bay area. | |
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Fantastic Four (2015) was shot mostly on a sound stage in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with exterior shots of the city used to stand-in for New York. They even brought in authentic-looking New York buses to try and add to the illusion. | |
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Interview with the Vampire (2022): For Season 2, Prague stands in for Paris. | |
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War and Peace (1956) was filmed in Italy. | |
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The Sopranos was set and filmed mostly in New Jersey. According to the creator, when he was trying to pitch the show to networks, various executives would often lose interest when he said that he wanted it filmed in New Jersey. He was later contacted by a producer from HBO, who was interested in the show specifically because the creator wanted it set in Jersey. (When Tony went to Italy on business, the show went there for real as well.) Played straight in one scene in "Soprano Home Movies", which involved one of the Soprano crew carrying out a hit in Montreal; instead of going all the way to Montreal to film a scene that lasted less than a minute, they just filmed at an apartment complex in Brooklyn. |
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine was mostly shot in New Zealand. | |
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Most subaquatic scenes since Thunderball were shot in The Bahamas (doubling for the Adriatic, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas). | |
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Every movie from the The Bourne Series was shot on location in Europe, as well as Goa, India in The Bourne Supremacy, and New York City in The Bourne Ultimatum. | |
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The 2023 Hong Kong TV series Dead Ringer (2023) (no relation to Dead Ringers (2023)) of the film setting at Singapore and Hong Kong, but all Singapore sequence episodes are filmed in Hong Kong due to COVID 19 Pandemic-related restriction. | |
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Ginny and Georgia: Set in New England, it's filming locations are Coburg and Toronto, Ontario. | |
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Major League, the popular 1989 comedy about the Cleveland Indians baseball team, was not actually filmed in Cleveland but rather in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's County Stadium acted as a stand-in for the Indians' then-home, Cleveland Municipal Stadium. However, since the two ballparks were relatively close in age and architectural style, it was a plausible alternate. Such was not the case, however, for the movie's sequel, Major League II, which also was not filmed in Cleveland but instead in Baltimore. That movie was shot in the fall of 1993, which just so happened to be in between the seasons that—in real life—the Indians moved from their old home at Cleveland Stadium to their new home, Jacobs Field (now known as Progressive Field). Producers used the Baltimore Orioles' home ballpark, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, as the Indians' home stadium. Oriole Park was built just two years before Jacobs Field and featured the same architects and neo-classical style as Jacobs Field, so one would think that producers would have used the stadium as a stand-in for Jacobs Field. However, producers instead inexplicably dressed up Oriole Park as the Indians' old stadium, Cleveland Stadium, despite the fact that the former was 56 years newer than the latter and bore no physical resemblance to it. Producers were so sloppy with the stand-in that one can notice numerous advertisements for local Baltimore businesses left conspicuous despite the film supposedly taking place in Cleveland. | |
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In an inversion, Terminator Salvation is primarily set in California and was filmed in New Mexico. Terminator: Dark Fate goes a step further in leaving the country, as Mexico and Texas were doubled in Spain. | |
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Field of Dreams: Dubuque, Iowa filled in for most of non-Fenway Park Boston. The gas station where Ray gets Terrence Mann's address was located at 3rd and Locust Streets note (the gas station was torn down years ago and is now a parking lot), and Terrence's neighborhood was located around 17th Street and Central Avenue in Dubuque. Both Galena, Illinois and Dyersville, Iowa filled in for Chisholm, Minnesota as both towns were within a 50-mile radius of the farm that served as the Kinsella home. Most of the road trip scenes were filmed in rural Dubuque County, Iowa and Jo Daviess County in Illinois. US Highways 61, 151, 52, and 20 along with some state and local roads stood in for the various highways Kinsella and Mann traveled over. |
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Tomorrow Never Dies is partially set in Vietnam, but given the Vietnamese authorities vetoed shortly before filming, the crew actually filmed in Thailand (some scenes even denounce the backgrounds are the same as in The Man with the Golden Gun). | |
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The pilot episode of Justified was shot in Western Pennsylvania, doubling for Kentucky. Subsequent episodes have the more common Southern California doubling, though this was averted for one episode that actually took place in Southern California. | |
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Constantine: The series was filmed in Atlanta, and the show partially averts the trope by having three episodes set in Atlanta proper. "A Feast of Friends" in particular prominently features two Atlanta landmarks, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History and the Fox Theatre. However, Constantine, Chas, and Zed go all around the United States, and one point, Mexico, to quell paranormal activity, and for every location outside Atlanta, the show plays the trope straight. The Ford Buildings on the campus of Berry College in northwest Georgia doubled for Ravenscar Asylum in Northern England. The exterior shots of Constantine's millhouse hideout were also filmed on the campus of Berry College. |
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Divergent was shot almost entirely on location in Chicago where the film is set. | |
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Season 1 of Revolution, set in a post-apocalyptic Illinois, was filmed in and around Wilmington, North Carolina. Filming moved to the Austin, Texas area for the second season. | |
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Fellow Travelers: The series was filmed in Toronto, but all the scenes are set in the United States. | |
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Die Another Day: North Korea and Cuba are communist nations who understandably wouldn't want to be involved with the Cold Warrior, so they used Hawaii and Cornwall for the former and Spain for the latter. | |
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Upgrade has various road signs in the U.S. style, and the cars have the driver on the left-hand side. However, some shots early in the film clearly show Melbourne's Bolte Bridge. | |
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The Fate of the Furious: The New York scenes were shot in Cleveland. In fact it is obvious these scenes were not filmed on location in New York as most streets in Manhattan run in one direction while the ones shown in the movie are bidirectional based on the road markings that are visible throughout. | |
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Cobra Kai takes place in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, like its predecessor film series The Karate Kid. While the Karate Kid movies were filmed on location in L.A., Cobra Kai was shot in Atlanta. The Atlanta suburbs of Union City, Douglasville, Marietta, and Alpharetta stand in for Reseda, Encino, Panorama City, Sylmar and Northridge. The strip mall in Reseda where Cobra Kai is located is actually in Sylvan Hills. While it’s mostly convincing, there are parts of the series that don’t look like California (such as multiple scenes where autumn leaves can be seen on the ground and everyone's dressed for the cooler weather of Atlanta). | |
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Yosemite National Park also stood in for the Himalayas in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. | |
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