Movie sets still in use when filming is over?

Does that mean that if you write a letter and leave it in the mailbox, it will magically appear four years ago at the same time you left it? :smiley:

I sense a movie script coming on.

No, wait – that was four years in the future, now it’s gone. Drat.

Hallo,

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Canton, Mississippi got a makeover to fit the 1930s-era movie O Brother Where Art Thou, which was filming there. At least some of the false facades from the movie were still up on the stores last time I visited Canton a couple of years ago.

The Green Mile and *The Last Castle *were filmed at the old Tennessee State Prison. There’s a tower from the set of The Last Castle, still standing on the grounds. It makes the prison look creepier than it already did. Here’s a pic without the tower, I guess it wasn’t castley enough.

There are also props left from the interior sets of both films, in storage at the prison.

One of the sets from all three Pirates of the Caribbean movies is still up on mainland St. Vincent in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. This particular set, situated on a gorgeous prototypical tropical bay, is supposed to be the town of Port Royal. One of the set buildings is an operating restaurant - eating there is like being in the movies, as from its location everywhere you look is a scene from one or more of the films. There are excusion boats and cars taking tourists to the set, and the area is popular with the bareboat sail charter crowd.

They filmed in other places in the Caribbean as well, from what I understand, but I don’t know if those other sets are still around. The one in St. Vincent is pretty cool, it’s in a pretty remote area so it’s easy to look around and really feel like you’re back in the 1780’s. Yarr.

The town square built for “The Music Man” later became Hazzard Square for the Dukes of Hazzard, and later became the center of town for Gilmore Girls. Only a few store fronts have changed as well as some of the signage.