5 Movies That Re-used VFX From Other Movies!
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It's fairly common knowledge that when working on sequels or film franchise's, VFX companies will reuse assets they've created or borrow assets from other VFX houses, they also have massive libraries of generic assets that with a few minor tweaks can be used in a variety of different films and people are none the wiser.
Robin Hood.
Perhaps some of the first instances of copying VFX shots comes from a time when Visual Effects were achieved by working directly on the celluloid, be it through chemical processes, double exposure, or just drawing directly onto the film. In the 1973 animated feature Robin Hood, animators actually drew scenes on top of existing animated cells from other films, if a scene required characters to dance, for example, Little John and Lady Kluck, they would simply draw their characters over the top of existing characters, like for example Baloo and King Louie from The Jungle Book, tracing their movements and gestures and thus ensuring that all their movements were fluid and rhythmic without the need for further adjustment afterwards.
Star Trek.
As the use of models and miniatures became more widespread, filmmakers also began to repurpose these expensive models to be reused on different films or, in the case of Star Wars, in the sequels and prequels of its own franchise.
It turns out that quite a lot of Star Trek's models and VFX shots are also repurposed and reused in later films, for example, Star Trek: Generations has an exterior shot of the Enterprise-D that was taken from the original Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, you can see the shot has been softened to disguise its lower resolution. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Klingon's Bird of Prey explodes this exact same VFX shot was used in Star Trek Generations, and the interior shot of the Klingons getting sucked away and blown up in the explosion is also re-used in both Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I Am Legend.
I Am Legend will probably go down in history as a classic film, not because it actually deserves to be a classic but because it could and indeed should have been one. The reason for this isn't the ending, which many found disappointing and others just didn't understand, basically Smith sacrifices himself to save the cure he discovered, thus becoming a "Legend"! but because of the VFX being rushed and the end result was unconvincing enough to cause a disconnect with the audience.
The Infected beings in the film, otherwise known as the Dark Seekers, were originally going to be actors dressed up in prosthetics and makeup. 50 Parkour specialists were hired, choreographed, and trained, but, after two days of filming, the director realized that they were not really scary at all and just looked like a bunch of angry mimes running around.
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.
When making such a VFX-heavy movie, budget is a major concern and so naturally any corner that can be cut to save some money will be cut. Some of the most expensive scenes to film, are car chase scenes, roads have to be closed, cars destroyed, stunt drivers employed, insurance, explosives, fire, smoke, and debris added digitally, all this translates into a lot of dollar signs, this is why, when director Michael Bay had to do a car chase scene he decided to reuse an FX shot from his 2005 film The Island. On "The Island" the protagonists are fleeing from the bounty hunters on a flat-bed truck loaded with locomotive wheels, which they begin to release, attempting to hit the cars pursuing them.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Of course, if you really want to save time and money, you can just cut a paste an entire VFX sequence from another film, as they did in The Spy Who Shagged Me. To be honest, Pacific Vision Productions didn't do too bad a job with the VFX in this movie, making Dr. Evil's rocket look almost exactly like... [gag from the original film, pecker, dick etc, possible addition of Jeff Bezos's rocket?] Jeff Bezos's New Shepard rocket was a pretty funny gag, but something odd happens when Powers and Felicity hitch a lift with the crew of Apollo 11, the VFX for the launch scene suddenly becomes a lot higher quality and super realistic, almost as if they were made by someone else... which in fact, they were, in Austin Powers they used exactly the same VFX shot that was created by Digital Domain for the film Apollo 13.
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It's fairly common knowledge that when working on sequels or film franchise's, VFX companies will reuse assets they've created or borrow assets from other VFX houses, they also have massive libraries of generic assets that with a few minor tweaks can be used in a variety of different films and people are none the wiser.
Robin Hood.
Perhaps some of the first instances of copying VFX shots comes from a time when Visual Effects were achieved by working directly on the celluloid, be it through chemical processes, double exposure, or just drawing directly onto the film. In the 1973 animated feature Robin Hood, animators actually drew scenes on top of existing animated cells from other films, if a scene required characters to dance, for example, Little John and Lady Kluck, they would simply draw their characters over the top of existing characters, like for example Baloo and King Louie from The Jungle Book, tracing their movements and gestures and thus ensuring that all their movements were fluid and rhythmic without the need for further adjustment afterwards.
Star Trek.
As the use of models and miniatures became more widespread, filmmakers also began to repurpose these expensive models to be reused on different films or, in the case of Star Wars, in the sequels and prequels of its own franchise.
It turns out that quite a lot of Star Trek's models and VFX shots are also repurposed and reused in later films, for example, Star Trek: Generations has an exterior shot of the Enterprise-D that was taken from the original Star Trek: The Next Generation TV series, you can see the shot has been softened to disguise its lower resolution. In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, the Klingon's Bird of Prey explodes this exact same VFX shot was used in Star Trek Generations, and the interior shot of the Klingons getting sucked away and blown up in the explosion is also re-used in both Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
I Am Legend.
I Am Legend will probably go down in history as a classic film, not because it actually deserves to be a classic but because it could and indeed should have been one. The reason for this isn't the ending, which many found disappointing and others just didn't understand, basically Smith sacrifices himself to save the cure he discovered, thus becoming a "Legend"! but because of the VFX being rushed and the end result was unconvincing enough to cause a disconnect with the audience.
The Infected beings in the film, otherwise known as the Dark Seekers, were originally going to be actors dressed up in prosthetics and makeup. 50 Parkour specialists were hired, choreographed, and trained, but, after two days of filming, the director realized that they were not really scary at all and just looked like a bunch of angry mimes running around.
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon.
When making such a VFX-heavy movie, budget is a major concern and so naturally any corner that can be cut to save some money will be cut. Some of the most expensive scenes to film, are car chase scenes, roads have to be closed, cars destroyed, stunt drivers employed, insurance, explosives, fire, smoke, and debris added digitally, all this translates into a lot of dollar signs, this is why, when director Michael Bay had to do a car chase scene he decided to reuse an FX shot from his 2005 film The Island. On "The Island" the protagonists are fleeing from the bounty hunters on a flat-bed truck loaded with locomotive wheels, which they begin to release, attempting to hit the cars pursuing them.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me.
Of course, if you really want to save time and money, you can just cut a paste an entire VFX sequence from another film, as they did in The Spy Who Shagged Me. To be honest, Pacific Vision Productions didn't do too bad a job with the VFX in this movie, making Dr. Evil's rocket look almost exactly like... [gag from the original film, pecker, dick etc, possible addition of Jeff Bezos's rocket?] Jeff Bezos's New Shepard rocket was a pretty funny gag, but something odd happens when Powers and Felicity hitch a lift with the crew of Apollo 11, the VFX for the launch scene suddenly becomes a lot higher quality and super realistic, almost as if they were made by someone else... which in fact, they were, in Austin Powers they used exactly the same VFX shot that was created by Digital Domain for the film Apollo 13.
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