r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/multiversesimulation • Jun 09 '23
Exterior of the “sewers” from the movie IT Image
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u/GlitterLamp Jun 10 '23
A friend of mine worked on this set, and had been posting stories of its construction on Instagram while it was happening. If my memory serves me right, I feel like I was seeing those stories for about three or four months? Some of that time may have been post-completion though, it all looks like scaffolding from the ground outside.
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Jun 09 '23
I'd be interested to know how much this cost to make, how many people worked on it and how long it took. This is very cool.
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u/bodybydemamp Jun 09 '23
The construction crews will throw something like this up in a week with a team of 10-15 working 10 hour days. Source: I’m a member of IATSE Local 44
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u/Finger_Ring_Friends Jun 10 '23
We talking a business week or a full 7 days? That's somewhere between 500 and 1050 man hours
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u/bodybydemamp Jun 10 '23
Depends on the crew. If they’ve been working together for a while, and most of them have, they could knock it out in 5 days. I worked with a crew of 4 guys and built a fairly large set for a Netflix promo in 2 weekends. And that’s with working M-F on another show. They could’ve gotten it done faster if I wasn’t there to slow them down
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u/analbumcover69420 Jun 10 '23
That’s just the construction part tho. Scenic have to paint it, set dressers have to dress it, rigging grips and electrics have to rig the lighting for it.
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u/rish_talking Jun 09 '23
Where did the orgy happen?
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u/yeahfucku Jun 09 '23
It’s incredible to think this is where children go to lose their virginity now days!
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u/CyclopeanJuiceVendor Jun 09 '23
Original or remake?
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u/youngdeathent0 Jun 09 '23
Remake. The speakers in there are too new to be from the original
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u/coleslaw17 Jun 09 '23
I don’t think they’re speakers. I think they’re light boxes projecting downwards through a grate to make it look like a storm drain. I though the same thing initially.
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u/JooshLevy Jun 09 '23
Not speakers. They are kino flo image 80s with duvatine skirts. Based on the other fixtures which also seem to be 8’ Kinos this is at least 15-20 years ago.
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u/Sparksighs Jun 09 '23
I don't have any link but this 100% from the set of the new movie, it was posted by someone who works on the film IIRC, and the pipes match up with those from the film. Not to mention the fact that the big circular thing in the middle is litterally where the final battle of the film takes place.
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u/JooshLevy Jun 09 '23
Wouldn’t be the first time I’ve been wrong. They look like L80 (led replacement) on second look.
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u/the_monkeyspinach Jun 09 '23
There was no IT movie being filmed 15-20 years ago though. Why can it not be from the latest movie but still using some older equipment?
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u/samiwas1 Jun 10 '23
It came out in 2017. Image 80s and Kino banks were still in heavy usage. Hell, they still are. I’ve had images on almost every movie/tv show I’ve worked on as recently as four months ago.
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u/Aggressive-Coat-5716 Jun 09 '23
So cool how they build these sets 🎥
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u/multiversesimulation Jun 09 '23
Personally love seeing the behind the scenes. There’s been movies where they shutdown several blocks of a major downtown city for like a 20 second scene.
The funding and logistics that go into a Hollywood level production is insane.
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u/canadasbananas Jun 09 '23
I still think about a behind the scenes sneak peak of the first pirate of the Caribbean movie I saw when I was a kid. That flooded cavern with the chest of coins and pile of treasure was all practical and it looked SO COOL and I still want to run around in there and play with all the stuff. Practical sets are so fucking cool, will always prefer them over ugly green screen shit (even when the green screen shit is not ugly at all and is almost indistinguishable from practical sets). There's just something about knowing the set is real and not made by a computer that makes the whole thing so much cooler.
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u/abortizjr Jun 09 '23
Serious question: how much of the wood do they re-purpose?
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u/bodybydemamp Jun 09 '23
None. Sometimes crew members will come in after shooting and pull a “G job” which is just them taking materials used on set home
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u/sppotlight Jun 09 '23
This reminds me of the time I lost my virginity in a horrific child sex orgy
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u/osktox Jun 09 '23
Last time this was posted that says it was the exterior of the TV show Stranger Things.
If I remember it correctly.
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u/Sparksighs Jun 09 '23
Well it's the set from IT, as the set's layout lines up with the sewers seen in the film.
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u/wdwerker Jun 09 '23
I remember seeing a sci fi movie spaceship set behind the scenes pictures that looked very similar.
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u/g00dbyebluesky Jun 10 '23
Do you want Teenage MUTANT Ninja Turtles?!? Because that’s how you get TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
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u/CallmeNo6 Jun 09 '23 edited Jun 09 '23
No banana for scale?
Edit: I see a human siluette on the right but the banana seems to be obscured.
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u/Psycho_Mantis_2506 Jun 09 '23
This picture looks kind of old. Is this from the TV miniseries from the 90s?
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u/0118999-88I999725_3 Jun 09 '23
This is from the newer movies, not the 80’s miniseries.
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u/cactus_deepthroater Jun 09 '23
It's from the IT movie from 1986. The good it movie.
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u/Psycho_Mantis_2506 Jun 09 '23
With Tim Curry as Pennywise?
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u/TheGreatTaint Jun 09 '23
are the hanging boxes lights?
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u/Kwuarmadyl Jun 09 '23
They're above the grates so I assume it's to mimic moon or sunlight shining through.
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u/g00dbyebluesky Jun 10 '23
Do you want Teenage MUTANT Ninja Turtles?!? Because that’s how you get TEENAGER MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
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u/ChaoticToxin Jun 10 '23
Honestly surprised they built that much. I never saw either IT but from a carpentry view that's a lot
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u/DropDead85 Jun 10 '23
My cousin builds sets for movies and shows and it's always a shame hearing about how they have to tear it down eventually :(
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u/Swordbreaker925 Jun 09 '23
Ah yes, IT, the book with the child orgy that everyone just seems to pretend didn’t happen… i will never understand why anyone supports that pedophile author.
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that everyone just seems to pretend didn’t happen
What we are seeing here is perhaps this person's first time on the internet. This is clearly the case because basically every single post that ever mentions Stephen King, regardless of any relation to IT, is immediately flooded with comments about that one scene. If they'd been on the internet for any length of time before this, they would have known that.
There are several comments on this post alone about that scene.
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