michael bey's island
i just saw both the international and u.s. trailers for michael bey's new summer film, the island.
oddly enough, looks like the city is very midwestern. granted, i dont know a lot of city skylines, but i quickly identified at least three buildings. sure, i know the cityscape is digital, but it just screamed cowtown. especially on the waterfront side. of course, buildings werent quite where they would normally be, but the shot of the skyline looked very, very familiar.
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The Island is a total ripoff of "spares" by michael marshall smith. dreamworks immediately optioned it for a movie, let the option lapse, and then put out the island. smith talks about his disappointment here.
Posted by: kelmeister | May 20, 2005 12:50 PM
It's downtown Kansas City!!
On the far left is the Power and Light building (I used to work there) and a weird conglomeration of the new courthouse, squashed and misplaced, and other buildings from downtown! That's really really weird.
Posted by: Drub | May 25, 2005 12:10 PM
To see it in motion makes it look like Columbus, and I can point out the LaVeque Tower, the old Agriculture Building, and Lazarus, among others. Something tells me cities with growth in the same decades probably all looked alike. The one with the flags on top also reminded me of one in Indianapolis, but I also pointed it out to Naladahc while driving here later that day. The one to its right reminds me of a couple different buildings here, but I think mostly of the YMCA.
Posted by: Gigamatt | May 25, 2005 12:31 PM
The cityscape is Detroit. Been there, done it. Many of the buildings are actual functioning sites in the downtown/waterfront area. Not really a COWTOWN, but we are midwestern!
Posted by: Roxanne | January 25, 2006 11:24 PM